The Details:
It's 52 here at the house. Sunrise was at 5:35.
The Practice:
I'm going down to Hatfield to visit and train with Paul C.
It was raining by the time I was ready to practice. I did a round of The 10+ to warm up and check my body for injuries that I might have picked up yesterday using the 'power broom' to clean up the driveway.
Note:
Because the ground didn't freeze the plow person really chewed up the driveway. There's a lot of TRG on the lawn, especially at the bottom. What a wreck!!
Next I went up in the loft to do a Round (left side) tuning into internal development and how daily Taiji strengthens ones core and affects ones bone and joint health.
I looked for space everywhere inside by releasing and expanding.
"Hang the muscles
Open the joints"
I got to Paul's around 10. We started right in with a short Warm Up that included Up And Down and Whirlwind and Whirpool with arms making large circles with finger tips leading, then we finished with #1 and #2 of The Ten
Next we did the bow stance version of Taiji Ruler.
Next we did a round of Separate and Push expressing Jin in the hands and fingers.
Next we did open and close the hands and fingers - Fist to Open Hand -
Next we did two Rounds of Part I up to the second Brush Knee And Twist Step, with no corrections.
Next we walked around the kitchen island.
Next we worked on #4 Pulling The Toes Back to strengthen the front of the shine
Next we practiced Lion Walking - Heel strike w/ toes up then rolling onto the ball of the foot - around the kitchen island.
Next we did Cross Punches to a focus pad with long stretched out punches without leaning forward too much, rather maintaining ones balance, also extending and retracting the punch as if the forearm was in a 'sleeve' ala a piston.
Next we did single arm Push-Hands focused on pushing and pulling power. I had him using me to push and pull on with the goal to push me off my base.
After a bit of conversation I headed back up the valley to Leyden.