Moving past the Awkward

You don’t need to be great to get started, but you do need to get started to be great. There is a lot to be said for learning a new weapon and getting a form together.  It is really cool to see where everyone is at with their weapons, but what is always really awesome is seeing how far each will come in a couple months.

Basically at the point of just getting comfortable with the weapon itself.  And while I am certainly behind on where I should be considering beta version was due last class, I am not nervous about the direction I have to go.  At least the Sai’s are finally past the stage of incredible awkwardness.  Now is the fun part.  I like the idea of visualization for my form development.  I guess everyone has their own approach, but what I find works best for me is visualization.  I start to with an opponent, add a formidable weapon and envision an attack.  I let my body do what feels natural and let things come together in that respect.  I am not sure if this is a good approach, but it is just what has worked for me in the past.

On advice from Sifu I was able to find the right person for helping in a particular move I was working on which has helped maintain balance and make the motion more fluid and functional.  Thank you Sifu’s.

Well now that the awkward stage is over with, the first display of incompetence in front of the I Ho Chuan group is over, I am really looking forward to making some headway on my chosen weapon.