This weekend, my fellow candidates and the black belts getting promoted all had the opportunity to get our forms filmed at hasse lake. It was freezing yet enjoyable. One of the couple thing that I learned from this experience is bodily awareness in different environments. Typically I do my forms inside while I’m warm and on mats. On Saturday I did it outside, in snow and below -30° weather. There was all different kinds of obstacles I’ve rarely faced before while doing a form. Like getting my foot caught in snow or slipping and falling. It put another thought in my head during the form. This then leads into the idea of doing the form to educated, not just to do the form. If my form was only committed to muscle memory I would have had a troubling time in a new environment, just how when we turn 90° before doing a form, it puts our bearings off.
I am an artist
I am an artist. With the new year of I Ho Chuan rolling in, everyone is starting their own journey with a new and unique weapon. For me, this is the staff. As I was creating said form, it occurred to me that every form we do, every application we practice, it’s all art. It’s about being abstract yet simple. Challenging yet easy. Each and everyone one of us has our own unique way of doing a form or an application. There is no right or wrong way to create art. Art is art just as kung fu is kung fu. The more you practice and stay dedicated, the greater of an artist you will become. We are all artists on our own journey to create a masterpiece.
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