I am still recovering from Saturday’s Forms seminar, where I
was learning Lao Gar for the first time (Thank you Sifu Wiebe). I was doing
very well for learning the first portion and was fairly confident going into
the evaluation. However, a funny thing happened once I actually started the
form. I had been having problems learning the hand portion of the sequence, and
was thinking of how to do it correctly. I remember turning into the second
sequence, the double foot movement to cat stance, which is sometimes referred
to (incorrectly) as the “Hippity-hop”, along with panther fist and check. I
remember watching my hands and going “Hey, it worked, they went were they were
supposed to”, then I thought about my feet. I had to check where they were,
then I couldn’t remember whether I had moved them, or where they were actually
supposed to be at that moment in time. I think that at the time my feet had
gone to the correct position without conscious thought, but was unnerving
because I then had to stop and figure out what I was to do next, which meant I
was temporarily paralyzed as my conscious mind played catch up. I would like to
think this is an anomaly, but is all too common when I first learn a form, then
have to demonstrate it under stress. I know that I eventually will have my body
learn it well enough that my conscious mind won’t mess me up, but it will take
a lot of reps before that happens. So there is a brief glimpse into my mind.
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