I've got blisters on me fingers

It felt good to be swinging the old Kwan Dao around on Friday. An hour is a long time to be swinging it around, I've got some wicked blisters on my thumbs. I felt like I made a lot of progress in the last I Ho Chuan class. Unfortunately I've forgotten a fair bit of my old form. I've been trying to piece it together with mixed results. I think I've got about 65 percent of it back but there's still a lot of gaps.

So far my approach has been to just try and remember moves but now I think I'm just going to remodel the form. Instead of worrying about remembering every detail I can take this opportunity to recreate it. The positive side of this is I can cut out some of the stuff I didn't like as much and make the form shorter. It was a bit too long before. The forgotten parts are mostly the in between moves. I remember most of the highlights.

I've definitely lost a lot of finesse with the weapon. It will take me a lot more practice to get my strength and control back to where it used to be. The expansion is going to be a lifesaver for me to get more practice time in.