Learning Zang Du Moon

[pegkerr]

Last night at the red belt class, 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.

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[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Yes! I expect I will have my black belt by the time I'm fifty. By then, I'll be fighting with kamas, which will be awesome. (Wicked-looking sickle-type weapons. Fiona's learning to use kamas now, and she loves it. She looks just amazing when she uses them doing marching basics) The ones in the picture here aren't quite the same as the ones we use--ours don't have sheaths, I don't think--but you get the basic idea.