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Thur. Mar. 22/12:  Going back to stage 1!  Time to go back and revisit the basics, besides Sifu says it's all just further refinement of the basics.  Sigong said, "If you guys cannot do absorb/project, opening and closing, expand and condense correctly... then you have not even begun training or learning my family art."  

Still going to keep up some of the opening exercises, etc., but focusing on stage 1 stuff when not in class.

  This past weekend I drove down (or over rather) to Durham, NC to meet with Sibat Ben Fisher and his Durham ILC crew for a workshop with our Sigong GM Sam Chin.  I had a ton of expectations and ideas about what meeting GM Chin would be like, as well as what it would feel like to touch him.  And although Sifu does as good a job as can be done in class about trying to convey the essence of the feelings and conditions of the training, nothing could have prepared me for what I felt, no words could have accurately described it.

When doing the fajin exercises I could feel a wave of fullness come down my arms AFTER my arms had stopped. Is my timing off? Should the wave coincide with the movement?