Chum Kiu Seminar

The day of the seminar, I had to get up early because it was basically a two hour trip from Cenla. I arrived at the gym fairly early since I had been there before for a previous meeting. Don and gang were busy loading a large wooden dummy from his truck and I helped. The seminar leader(I will call him Mike for now), was there and greeted me. I had talked to him on the phone when I first called about Wing Chun months earlier. His name and school name was given to me by the travelling Wing Chun teacher. Don introduced us and Mike did remember talking to me on the phone. Since then, Mike has moved to Atlanta to pursue work as a computer person. He still keep up with the Martial Arts though. The seminar was tremendous! He went through the segments of the form, not teaching the form, per se, but explaining the principles as he went to help us understand the nature of them. Don, and his son, helped demonstrate (usually the dummy stuff) and we all broke up every half hour or so to use the information that we had received. I already knew a few guys from previous meetings, so I was able to use them as helpers. One of the guys was about my height so we got together quite often and one of the few ladies (I will call her Doris for now) was also instrumental in helping me, especially on the dummy. All in all, the seminar was great. It went on for about 6 hours and one of the best things about it is that it was taped and I was able to purchase the tape. I still have it!