Third Kung Fu exam
So I completed my Third major Kung Fu exam on Sunday 2nd February 2020 and passed! I'm very glad. I am mostly impressed that I have kept this up consistently and I'm now well into my third year.
Sadly my teacher's mother is ill and classes have been reduced to once a week so I am doing my Kung Fu training with T'ai Chi (taijiquan) once a week with a friend called Moz in addition to the Wednesday class.
Broken up by a series of 10 push-up, 10 sits up, 10 squatts, we run for 10 minutes with squatts and long jumps mid run, followed by bunny hops, kangaroo jumps, duck walking, then 100 punches, 30 stretching leg lifts ( front, opposite shoulder, side, side with toe up), 70 kicks (front thrusting, back thrusting, side thrusting, crane kicks, triple round house kicks). This usually takes 15 minutes.
After the conditioning of kung fu, we are practice Yang-style Taijiquan including, stepping, form, pushing hands and some applications. This is based on what we had learned from classes and based on a series of DVDs by Yang Jwing-Ming to augment and solidify the knowledge from classes.
Sadly due to Covid-19 in 2020 all face-to-face classes were put on hold. I decided to take up running for a bit in the hope this would help me with part of the class that I struggle to keep up with.
Graeme