Thursday kung fu basics class. I asked SK if CN had called in yet to say he wasn’t coming. 
CN has missed a ton of classes lately. CK says that CN is missing classes because he has a severe case of new-boyfriend-osis… and is also probably not getting enough sleep. 
She may well be right. Well, he actually did show up tonight, so that was cool. We had a small class- just CN and SK, MM, ES and me.
To the dismay of my knees, SK decided tonight was STANCEWORK NIGHT. 
After a double dose of hand strike drills (all of which had to incorporate a stance shift), we dissected the Five Animals form and fixed a lot of small errors, with particular attention to stancework.
A couple reps of Leopard at Dawn and the White Crane sequence from the retreat (need to get a name for that so I can quit calling it "White Crane sequence from the retreat"!), then a few corrections on Hurricane Hands and a small new piece. CN and SK were both helping me, so it was a little bit of under-the-microscope…. there were a couple of places where I could feel something wasn’t quite right with the rooting/balance, and they were able to point out the sources of the problems.
15 min sitting meditation, 10 min of Tao De Ching. We are working our way through the book(s). We each have a different edition, and we start by reading the passage out of each edition so that we can compare and contrast the versions. My book is a tiny pocket-size thing with very simplistic and sometimes dowright bizarre translations. JB’s is a work of art in both poetry and accompanying drawings. The comparisons are interesting.
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