Monday, April 3, 2023

Wudang Dragon Sword – Sets 1-3 Review 1

Review this week. There are so many small things that I need to revisit and so many more that I haven’t had time to mention. One of the important things to remember as we go through each practice session is that I’m not trying to teach everything all at once. Each lesson builds on the ones before.

I had a cat encounter. So my hand is wrapped.

I also kept saying that we were reviewing movements 1 – 4. In fact, we have only covered three. Four if I count the opening (no).

The goal is better coordination within the movements and also better coordination with the sword.

What is the movement? How do we do it? Not only the particulars for geometry and physics, the emphasis and placement, the intent? What is the nature of Dragon Sword? 龙化剑？

Each week, I’ll cover one one of the sets. On Mondays (a), we start working with the movement. Tuesdays, I’ll go into more details (b). On Wednesdays (c), I’ll put what we have back into the form to make the connections.