Invitation

Soon, I was headed down south every other Sunday and it truly felt like an adventure each time. The trip was fairly boring, but later, I will tell you about some things I did to make it more interesting, to me, at least. One Sunday, at Don's house during one of my private lessons, he asked if I wanted to attend an upcoming "Chum Kiu" seminar which was to be held in the town at a local gym. I was thrilled to be invited! Don then started teaching me a few things related to the upcoming seminar. Chum Kiu is the second form in Wing Chun, and usually a trainee doesnt get training in it for at least a year. For our purposes though, Don usually stayed with the first form, Sil Lim Tao, for well over a year. Learning these things about the second form gave me a tremendous sense of pride and I also learned much more about Wing Chun, sort of ahead of time. We were still meeting on Don's back screen porch since the cold weather had not arrived as of yet and the training was beginning to click a little. The "Chum Kiu" that I learned that Sunday has stayed with me since then and I still think about many of the principles that I learned. Whenever I get bored at my office, I still practice some of the turning involved in the form. More about the actual seminar next time!