- Weight: 80.6KG
- Heart-rate
- not measured
- Location: Sifu Shi Heng Jins school in Melle Belgium
- Duration: 2h
- Intensity: High
Unfortunately Yasemin, who joins us normally for Tai Qi and Qi Gong lessons, couldn't join us today. On the up side, that means that we could leave at 8.15h in stead of 6.15h.... so its not a real punishment....
After a 2,5 hour long ride (Sam's turn to drive :) ) we arrived at Sifu Shi Heng Jins place at 10.45h. At eleven we joined for an hour of the regular Sunday kung fu class, as we always do. Due to the nice weather we trained outside, which was really nice & far more energizing than training inside. This training is always the same. We first run a bit to get warm and then do leg and arm stretches. Then we move to some exercises to loosen up the body such as, Ma bu/gong bu transfers, squats, back stretches (Qian hou fu yao, Bao fo jiao), Gong bu ya tui, Pu bu ya tui, Wu lung pan da. After that we practice Ji Ben Gong (basic kicks and moves) and we finish the training with Taolu practice. At Sifu Shi Heng Jin I only practice Ba bu lian huan quan in Taolu practice.
After the regular training, Sam and I both share an hour of private training with Sifu. Sam practices in Shaolin Gui Ding Dao and knows the whole form by now, he's really perfecting it. I just started learning Shaolin Da mo jian since a couple of months, and I learned half of the moves now. So still a lot of work to do before I can start to really 'make it my own' (learning the moves is one thing... executing them fluently and perfect takes a couple years more....). Slowly but graduatly I start to feel the straight sword a bit more, but it still needs lots and lots of work.
My daily fitness training seems to be working out though, since this time was the first time that I was not completely dead after the hour of private training.
Unfortunately Sam hurt his back (old injury that keeps appearing from time to time), so we did not stay longer for more training as we intended to do. Ahh well, you can't have it all.
Coming weeks I'll try to change my fitness routine to include Da mo jian training exercises in the stamina training. Hope that improves my feeling for the sword more rapidly.
On the ride back home Sam tricked me into getting a nasty McDonalds visit (we were going for milkshakes, but sneaky Sam orded 2 cheeseburgers on top, the bastard...)
Can't wait till tomorrow! (Training in luch time!)
