Does it Kerchunk?

When working with forms, I think I have a bad tendency to lose myself in my intent. I think this is an asset for my own personal forms, but it can cause difficulty with school forms or other “preset” sequences. For example, my Snake form looks very different in comparison to the source material; I believe my intent has caused me to develop the form uniquely. Is that a good thing? I really do not know, but I am guessing it isn’t the best? Either way, it is something I am cognizant of.

It does work for me in certain spots, though. I find that my intent often allows for better unison between my six harmonies; as I channel my intent, I believe my harmonies start to work better together and that increases the timing and precision of some of my techniques. It is tricky to put into words, I apologize. The easiest example is primarily with moves that require a stance change; as I visualize my intent, my body reacts with a “kerchunk”. As my visualization clarifies, my kinetic representation locks into place all at once. Like, everything hums at volumes which increase at impact points, before landing in a kerchunk. For example, for the first three-ish moves of Lao Gar (up until the double back-fist), my body sounds something like sheeew-kerchunk. Sheeew POW sheeeeewwww kerchunk. Does that make sense? 

Basically, my physical comprehension of a move comes from my ability to isolate the kerchunk and making sure the entirety of my body is all kerchunking at once. And voila! Six harmonies! Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work. I cannot seem to isolate the kerchunk in super flowy moves. An example of this is a drunken stepping technique used in the Wudang Monk Spade form. Even though I struggle with the flow of it, I have adapted the move into my sword-spear form. Is it going to look the way it is supposed to? Probably not. But alas! It’s mine now, mwahahahahaha. And I am going to MAKE it mine. 

On a side note, my numbers have slowed a little as a result of sickness and isolation in the last week. Still improving, and this is a point that would have terminated my motivation in previous years, so look at me go! *pat on my back*

Numbers

Situps: 2290 / 50000

Pushups: 3000 / 50000

AoK: 116 / 1000

Katana: 45 / 1000

Sword Spear: 57 / 1000

Sparring: 46 / 1000

Distance (km): 54.5 / 1609

Blogs: 4 / 52

Personal

Tai Chi (reps): 17 / 250

Tai Chi (unexcused absences): 0 / 0

Stretching (hrs): 10.25 / 150

MMCs: 0 / 10

Ski Trips: 0 / 4

Volunteering: 0 / 3