Man in a box

Well after three demo practices things are going well for us as a group. Have to remind ourselves things will slowly evolve and come together over time and we are way ahead of last year’s demo team. As for myself after doing my form dozens of times over these days I found myself having trouble with its overall feel. I couldn’t get things to work quite right, it felt off. I realized I am trying to stay within this small space which we will have to do for this demo and am shortening my stances which are killing my form. I was shortening my stances and my centre was too high leading everything to be disconnected. I was having trouble with my transitions, speed and timing you name it. Will definitely have to make a few adjustments for this demo but the biggest thing is my stances have to be properly grounded and will have to work within this small space. One drawback I guess with having long legs, it doesn’t take more than two steps to be from one side to the other. It’s been a good thing to slow down my form, when I was going fast and shortening each move I knew it was off you just feel it. Again not too flashy but well-grounded execution. Sifu Rybak is already is calling me “flashy”, maybe it’s just my hair….

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