I’m back for a second day of ranking my weapon forms. I spoiled it by saying what my favorite is. I just took twenty minutes to look up Double Sword Forms. They are thin on the ground on YouTube. The ones I can find are mostly Chen style, which is not my style (Yang style).… Continue Reading
I love my weapons. I know I have said that several times (especially lately), but weapons are my life. I have finished teaching myself the Cane Form with the saber, and I decided to try it on the left side. Pleasantly, I was able to do the whole thing. Except two movements that I’ve also… Continue Reading
I finished teaching myself the Cane Form with the saber, and the last row was surprisingly much easier than I thought it would be. That’s because I watched my teacher’s teacher do it with the cane (he has the whole Cane Form online), and I cleaned up my form based on what I’m seeing from… Continue Reading
Back again to talk more about gender and martial arts. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I had to slow down the rate at which I was teaching myself because I was messing some things up. For example, I recently re-taught myself the Fan Form because I realized I had forgotten whole chunks of it.… Continue Reading
Am I really going to write more about gender and martial arts? Why, yes, yes I am. Why? Because I can. And because I have more to say about it. Here is my post from yesterday in which I talked about finding a therapist. Mostly, I focused on how diufficult it is for me to… Continue Reading
I’m still on that gender/martial arts tip. And on that mental health tip. Here is my post from yesterday about how I am smarter than most therapists. I know how that sounds, but it’s true. No, smarts aren’t everything, but they are something. And for me, I cannot respect someone I can manipulate. One of… Continue Reading
I’m talking about trying to be more healthy in general. I mentioned at the end of the last post that there are three things I really like a great deal. They are: writing, FromSoft games, and martial arts weapons. I already said thatt FromSoft games would be the first to go because there are tons… Continue Reading
I have more to say about martial arts. This is probably not a surprise as I tend to obsess over things–especially when I see something that spurs on my interest. Such as the demo. Or watching videos of my teacher’s teacher doing different forms. I wrote yesterday how my mind was blown by him doing… Continue Reading
In yesterday’s post, I was talking about the Lunar New Year’s demo that my teacher’s teacher’s school had done for Lunar New Year. They do it every year, and I’ve attended more years than not in the past fifteen years. I particularly remember the one in 2020 because it was right before the pandemic hit–and… Continue Reading
Today (Sunday) was the day my teacher’s home school had their Lunar New Year demo. It was broken up into three parts–the Taiji section followed by the Xingyi chunk and lastly, Bagua. I was watching on Zoom. The demo started with everyone who wanted to participate doing the first two sections of the Solo (Long)… Continue Reading