Last night was the Magic Tortoise Taijiquan school's annual new year potluck with demonstrations. I was in 4 of them. (If I remembered crap about san shou, I would have grabbed a partner and done that, too.)
James and Dan led an abbreviated Chen style, which I learned at the Friday morning Chen practice (which, dammit, I'm going to attend every week I can.) The Chen style repeats so much that it's fairly easy to say, "OK, after the first single whip, go into cloud hands, then switch feet and hidden hand punch, rising dragon stretches claws into death ground on one side only, then from the press into black dragon serves tea, single whip then dragon enters its lair (aka snake creeps down) to the ending."
Then it was the stick/dao demo. LaoMa learned it from TT Liang, who based it on a praying mantis weapon form. That went fairly well, though Violet led faster than I'm used to.
Fan demo was... well, Violet dropped her fan, I had trouble balancing for the one-legged lean forward part, then I dropped my fan, and Mrs Ma dropped hers. Fans are the easiest weapon to drop, since you flip them open a lot, and if you're nervous (and your hands are sweating), it can fly right out of there. But we had fun, and people were impressed *anyway*. So.
Right after fan, I had to lead Chen dao, since Chen is my main style and LaoMa wanted me to. He introduced it as something he'd learned and liked to teach to Chen stylists. It was surprisingly unstressful! I'm not used to practicing with music, and when we did it in class, it threw me off, but I managed to ignore the music, and did my pace, and it was fine. Dr Jay told me I looked good, so that's cool.
(Other demos included Wudangshan, Wu Hao, Yang, tangquan, baguajian, cane, and tassel sword. Plus san shou, as mentioned above.)
Today's to-do list:
-laundry
-Isis poking
-help Ben take the last set of lights down
-finish line edit on![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yhibiki's story (on p 5 of 22...)
-go for a walk and enjoy the weather
-take Isis for a walk
-register for ReaderCon and Anson Co writers workshop
-register for women's health symposium (and 6 hrs of CE credit)
That's probably enough, since the line edit is going to take most of the day. This nice, sunny, 60-degree day. ;_;
James and Dan led an abbreviated Chen style, which I learned at the Friday morning Chen practice (which, dammit, I'm going to attend every week I can.) The Chen style repeats so much that it's fairly easy to say, "OK, after the first single whip, go into cloud hands, then switch feet and hidden hand punch, rising dragon stretches claws into death ground on one side only, then from the press into black dragon serves tea, single whip then dragon enters its lair (aka snake creeps down) to the ending."
Then it was the stick/dao demo. LaoMa learned it from TT Liang, who based it on a praying mantis weapon form. That went fairly well, though Violet led faster than I'm used to.
Fan demo was... well, Violet dropped her fan, I had trouble balancing for the one-legged lean forward part, then I dropped my fan, and Mrs Ma dropped hers. Fans are the easiest weapon to drop, since you flip them open a lot, and if you're nervous (and your hands are sweating), it can fly right out of there. But we had fun, and people were impressed *anyway*. So.
Right after fan, I had to lead Chen dao, since Chen is my main style and LaoMa wanted me to. He introduced it as something he'd learned and liked to teach to Chen stylists. It was surprisingly unstressful! I'm not used to practicing with music, and when we did it in class, it threw me off, but I managed to ignore the music, and did my pace, and it was fine. Dr Jay told me I looked good, so that's cool.
(Other demos included Wudangshan, Wu Hao, Yang, tangquan, baguajian, cane, and tassel sword. Plus san shou, as mentioned above.)
Today's to-do list:
-
-Isis poking
-help Ben take the last set of lights down
-finish line edit on
yhibiki's story (on p 5 of 22...)-go for a walk and enjoy the weather
-take Isis for a walk
-register for ReaderCon and Anson Co writers workshop
-register for women's health symposium (and 6 hrs of CE credit)
That's probably enough, since the line edit is going to take most of the day. This nice, sunny, 60-degree day. ;_;
