Learning Zang Du Moon
Jan. 16th, 2008 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrLast night at the red belt class, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pazlazuli started teaching us Zang Du Moon (the translation is "Beginning of Mission"--or was it "Begin the Mission"? And am I spelling it right?). Here is a video of Fiona doing it:
It is extremely interesting to start actually doing a form I've been observing for at least a year, as the girls have been learning it. As I joked last night topazlazuli, I know all the right places to photograph this form (as I've been taking pictures for the belt tests) but that's quite different from actually doing it. It employs a lot of blocks that I've never used before, and I get dreadfully confused as to what folds to use before each step. That's not surprising my first time through; I know it will take me some time to master it. pazlazuli told me I did a pretty good job remembering as much as I did.
This one is going to be fun.
pazlazuli started teaching us Zang Du Moon (the translation is "Beginning of Mission"--or was it "Begin the Mission"? And am I spelling it right?). Here is a video of Fiona doing it:It is extremely interesting to start actually doing a form I've been observing for at least a year, as the girls have been learning it. As I joked last night to
pazlazuli, I know all the right places to photograph this form (as I've been taking pictures for the belt tests) but that's quite different from actually doing it. It employs a lot of blocks that I've never used before, and I get dreadfully confused as to what folds to use before each step. That's not surprising my first time through; I know it will take me some time to master it. pazlazuli told me I did a pretty good job remembering as much as I did.This one is going to be fun.