On Tuesday night we started out loosening up with a bit of Tai Chi and then we worked with sticks for a while, sort of a continuation of our class from last week. Mostly we worked on defense against sticks, what to do if attacked. I think this makes a lot of sense. Personally, I don’t really need to learn how to hit someone with a stick as I'm pretty good at that already. What I need to learn how to take them away from some A-hole who is trying to whack me with one. And that is exactly what we did. I was working with Leroy and it is cool since we are just about at the same level, I might be just a tad a head of him but I have never sparred with him so I’m not sure where he is at in that regard.

So I now can take a stick away even using only one hand.

I was late to class on Thursday night because I had a gig at one of the local health care centers that was opening up a new wing for childhood psychological treatment and of course they wanted crazy old me to be the background music for the reception. I must say that I was really impressed with the new facility and really glad that I was able to play for them, and not only because it paid well.

When I got to class the second hour had already begun and they were working on Sword Hands and I jumped right in and started working with Jeff. Jeff is a nice guy, he started out at the same time as Jim and I and would be a Black Belt now except that he had to take some time off to take some career related classes. What is really cool is that he came back and when he did he brought his son with him.

Bruce asked me if I would like to help him with his next video and of course I am pleased to be able to do what ever I can to help. It is going to be on healing techniques so that should be great. That is one of the things I have been looking forward to the most since I learned that Quan Li K’an had a healing aspect to it.

The Kata Video I have been working on is coming along, I now know where I am going with it so things are moving right along. Bruce gave me an Apple G4 loaded with video (and audio) software so now what I have to do is learn how to use it. A pretty steep curve for me but once I get into it I think it will be really useful and much more versatile than the Windows program that I have been using, if slightly less easy to use.

Well, we have the next week off as the Public Schools have Spring break.

More later-

GrumpyGriz