Want to Know? Want to Train!

With the Banquet fast approaching I have been checking over the things that will soon be put on display for the rest of the school and our extended SRKF family and it got me thinking about my forms. When Sifu Rybak asked me to be part of the second demo, doing my hand form in addition to my weapon form, it made me realize that I have been putting DMS I+II on the backburner for quite a while. I have been practicing it here and there, always peripherally aware of it, but never really spending the extended amounts of time trying to work on the issues that made me choose it as my form for the Year of the Rabbit in the first place. When we do our run throughs of the demo in class, I can still feel my back heel lifting, I can still feel myself rushing through those first 3 moves. Still not understanding to the point of being able to do it, how I can reconcile the release of energy and commitment to each move with the speed I am trying to achieve. 

This is not to say I have made zero progress in this form, but I know there are still hidden gems of insight to be found, especially in that opening sequence, since I can't quite do it yet. This lack of ability points to a lack of knowledge, either in my theory, or my physical skill, and I want to remedy it as soon as possible because I know that the trickier something is, the more I can learn from it (since it can point me to blind spots in all areas of my training) and I want to use this curiosity; to turn this drive to want to know, into a drive to want to train. 



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