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I am a student at Silent River Kung Fu and a member of the I Ho Chuan team. This blog acts as one of our most essential requirements and serves as my archive of 'ah-ha' moments as well as a written record of the lessons kung fu has taught me. I cannot promise that what is written here will be coherent, or make sense, but I can promise that these blogs will have way too many commas

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December 06, 2024

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Could a Robot Do Kung Fu?

March 07, 2023

During one of our discussions in the second degree brown belt class last Saturday my brain threw a question completely out of left field at me. Sifu Brinker was describing how flow and power does not come from executing a technique with overly specific instructions (i.e. "ok I'm going to move my arm 98 degrees to the left then extend my elbow in 3.5 seconds then...") and my brain grabbed that idea and ran with it, almost immediately asking "COULD YOU TEACH A ROBOT KUNG FU?????" I made a note of it then left the idea alone because I knew as soon as I started to think about it there is no way I would be able to refocus on the actual discussion (which I very much wanted to hear). Once I allowed myself to think about it my first answer was: probably , and it would most likely be better than us at it because you could measure out the timing and distancing, all things we have to constantly adjust and practice, to a microscopic level, and the robot would be able to ex...

Or can I...?

March 02, 2023

Between it floating around in the back of my mind for almost a week, reading sifu Brinker's blog post about it today, and sifu Rybek encouraging us to write a blog after tonight's meeting, I think all three created the mental conditions that were just right for me to have a lightbulb moment about the knifehand-long punch-open roundhouse/(dragons whip)-spinning back kick section in da mu hsing II, and I'm very excited about it, I mean, jumping up and down punching the air excited. My initial question about this sequence that kind of kickstarted this whole thing was that I was having trouble feeling any flow or power from that spinning back kick at the end of the sequence. When sifu Brinker explained that the energy flows just like it does in the knifehand-punch 1) it blew my mind that the spinning back kick was meant to be connected like that!! and 2) I thought I had an answer to my question and all it would take would be to practice with that intent in mind. However as I ...

Double Broadsword pt.3

March 14, 2023

This blog ended up being one of those "figure it out as you write it" so forewarning my thoughts are a bit disjointed in this one. This year while I am building my weapons form I am noticing that I'm focusing more on the flow within a move compared to the flow between moves like I was last year. Having a single sword last year gave me a focal point for my energy and I would try to move the rest of my body in a way to support that. But now that I have two swords the energy and flow isn't as obvious to me. It could also be that each individual technique has a lot more going on, trying to use both arms simultaneously so that a single move almost becomes a mini form in and of itself? Where as before I would do a slash, or a block, now slashes, blocks, spins, sweeps and strikes sometimes all happen in a single move. Which is why the flow within a single technique feels more obvious this time around? It could also be that both my swords are fairly light. Last year my heavy ...