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My weapon form that I’m creating this year is using Reindeer Antlers!  When I asked, the zoo and the keepers were kind enough to allow me to take a pair of antlers from one of our reindeer home to develop my form with! The ones I want are from my favourite reindeer (see photo) as she is the first animal I trained a brand new behaviour with at the zoo so she has a special place in my heart. But since she is female and won’t drop her antlers until the end of the winter season I have a stand in pair of older antlers from 2 different males to use in the meantime.  When selecting my weapon for this year I had a few requirements: 1) no blades - so far all of my weapons have been bladed and I think I have a lot to learn from a weapon that does not use slicing or slashing as it’s primary strikes  2) ideally, something smaller - I wanted something a bit more compact so I could have an easier time practicing outside of the kwoon (now that I have them in my hands I’m not sure if I f...

Tuesdays class: We are working on side heels, the engagement of the hip, how the timing influences your power and skeletal alignment. We are working on spinning back kicks, the timing of the release and the range of where the kick extends.  (I think I am having trouble with releasing all of my power in the linear portion at the end, and maintaining too much of the rotational energy from the spin, I have asked about this issue before many times and have gotten a clearer understand ing , but I know I still don’t understand ; I don’t raise my hand when Sifu asks is we have any questions) We are doing punches from a horse stance, focusing on the engagement of our hips and how that interplays with the rotation and drawback of our hands. We are doing forms, Sifu is asking us what we are focusing on, what we are working on, I do not answer “hip engagement” even though we have been working on it all class. Someone asks a question about the opening bow, Sifu explains that your hands need to...

Hello! Been a while since I’ve written a proper blog, which is no way to start off the year, but with being sick during the change-over from the Year of the Dragon to the Year of the Snake I’ve defined had a bit of a rocky start.  I want to write a blog about my final numbers for the year of the Dragon, I want to write a blog about the banquet, I want to write a blog introducing my new weapon (as per the challenge that was issued a while ago), I want to share more of the art that I did for last year, I want to write a blog about last weeks meeting, but most importantly I want to get a good momentum of blogging built back up for myself. But before I can do any of that I need to write something, anything, and this is that.  Sifu Rybak gave us the idea of introducing, or reintroducing ourselves to the team, and I thought that would be the perfect blog to get the ball rolling for me. Hi! I’m Sihing Kayley Burke! My favourite colour is the green you find inside a pistachio, I have ...