Increasing Intensity

I am only able to go to the temple 3 or 4 times per week (rest, the wife, and yes work occupy a decent amount of the time I'm not actually at the office.) But despite that, I'm going to increase the intensity of my training.

Tamo Jian Completed!

I finished learning Tamo Jian! I still have a lot to work on, but at least I know the entire thing.

Sifu wants me to really master qigong, so I'll probably focus on that more in the near term.

The sword form I'm learning is Tamo Jian. Also, I finished learning Xiao Hong Quan (need a lot of practice though), and am close to finishing Cuy Ding Quan (not sure if the spelling is correct.)

Qigong has been good as I can really take a lot of force from the logs and bats.

Sword!

I'm now learning my first sword form using a jian sword. More to come as I learn more...

Stil here...

Learning more Xiao Hong, pretty far into it...

Lohan Gun (staff) practice every weekend...

Mandarin studies have slowed a little bit, hopefully I'll get more into it tomorrow.

Mandarin, Buddhism, Taoism

In order to have a more complete Shaolin experience, I've decided to begin learning Mandarin as well as exploring the wisdom contained in both Buddhism and Taoism. Hopefully I'll start having some insightful posts in the coming days.

December 18th Update

Still training hard... working on the second half of Xiao Hong Quan, and now learning Qay Ding Quan (or something like that)... also, I'm starting to learn Mandarin via various websites, and in the next week or two I'll probably purchase Fluenz to really kick it into high gear.

All for now... Amituofo!