Watching someone do a form

Sifu Freitag pointed out that my upper and lower body are disconnected when I am doing the horse whisk form (I agree, I am not really happy with how it feels).  I have been playing with the movements a lot and yet I am not feeling in my movements what I can see in Sifu M Becketts movements after watching her performing it on a video recording that I have.  Going to get my hubby to record me doing the form this week and see if I can clarify in my own mind what is missing.   I can't seem to make a connection when a form or application I am doing dosen't feel stellar ... it dosen't track to the actual issue(s) that are causing the problem.  Yet Sifu Freitag and other senior blackbelts can see something is missing so I am hoping that watching myself perform will offer some insights.  Its hard to do ... don't like seeing videos of my performances! 

Did something totally dumb, was playing with some google functions, calendars/emails etc for work and managed to mess up my personal google plus account ... its taken a couple of weeks to figure out what I did and fix it so I have not been receiving any notifications about postings and I haven't been able to connect ... my apologies for the silence but I have just today managed to get caught up reading blog posts etc.   Glad to be back in the loop. 

Motorcycle Trip

So we will be leaving on Friday for the long anticipated motorcycle trip.  Going to Jasper, then Grande Cache, Grand Prairie, Tumbler Ridge, Prince George, Cache Creek, Hells Gate, Osoyos, Balfour, Nakusp, Radium.  There are quite a few hot springs along this route. :)  Arrive in Calgary on the 19th to visit family and then home in time for the I Ho Chuan meeting on Saturday the 20th. 

Most days we will only be riding 4 to 5 hours, which is a pretty easy day. Going to visit some friends and see some cool places ... we are taking all the smaller twisty highways, the Cochahalla is way too straight.  Our butts are still going to be sore, haven't gone on an adventure like this in a while!  Plenty of time to still keep up with my numbers and after 5 hours on a motorcycle moving my legs will be a treat.   I will how ever be missing the I Ho Chuan class on Thursday the 18th.  Will be soaking my poor bum in the hot springs in Radium.  Wish you could be there!

Hamstring

So I think I pulled my hamstring on my right leg ... it has been giving me grief for two weeks now and flares up when I kick, and sitting (which I do a lot at work sometimes) is more than a little uncomfortable.  Self diagnosis is not the most reliable method however I did this a couple of years ago and it feels similar.  Hopefully stretching and keeping my kicks at knee height for awhile will let it heal.    This however is messing with the spinning reverse roundhouse kick in my form,  I think trying to get this kick looking good in the form is how I hurt it.  I believe I did not have the footwork correct coming into the kick and was swinging up enthusiastically rather than around with control like it should be done.  Felt a sharp sproing and that may have been the moment of injury.  REALLY need to work on this kick it looks BAD!  will be doing it SLOWLY for awhile.