A View Inside the Pavilion

In class today, Shifu once again stressed the importance of practicing basics. He compared the form, Lao Jia Yi Lu, to a required textbook. He was emphasizing that if we could, we really should practice daily. 15-30 minutes a day, and he felt that with serious practice, in a year's time we'd be surprised at how good we could be.

Shifu stated that since Lao Jia helps to strengthen and condition us to the correct body movements that we need to make sure our motions are large and big enough to allow our techniques to work.

Shifu stated that as we practice we need to be more aware of moving our bodies AND our hands together. He stated that we often make mistakes as we begin knowing what we are to do, and then FORGET to be aware of moving our bodies enough to make a technique work functionally. At the same time, we need to be aware NOT to turn our bodies too much.
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