Form and technique

Many years ago I asked Guro Dan Inosanto for advice on how to remain as injury free as possible whilke still keeping , timeing , power , speed , one of his suggestions was creative use of the focus mitts , the other was to change how I trained every decade . Guro Dan is one of GrandMaster Ed Parkers first Black Belts as well as being the Senior Instructor for Bruce Lee , I took his advice to heart , and have discovered for myself that in each decade may be some 5 year " mini" cycles.

This months lesson plan has us working on the nutral bow / forward bow transition , as well as softening up some of the " Hard " movement in both Forms & Techniques . After my time in China Town both observing & training and seemed to me the softer style systems had more older students that moved well than the Hard style systems I'v observed and trained in , if we can't train in our Arts as we gwt older ( and Better ) what good is it.

Two of the movement mantras we are useing this month are " moving with awareness " and " how little  energy can I use to accomplish this movement "