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"I have a cold. My head hurts. Um...Beer?"
01/24/07
"I have a cold. My head hurts. Um...Beer?"
"감기 있어요. 모리가 아파요. 음..." I twirled my finger around, "맥주?" I have a cold. My head hurts. Um...beer?
TempMaster just looked at me and the boys started hitting each other, "Amanda! 맥주, 맥주!"
I ignored them and said in English, "Dizzy?"
We had been doing somersaults. My head had been pounding all day due to a cold and students who have no idea how darn loud their own voices are. Each somersault was making it pound a bit more (I guess those mats don't provide as much padding as I thought), but I was doing OK with the various forward somersaults. I could even do them from a standing position; I could not do them back into a standing position. As soon as we started doing them backwards, my neck screamed (it still hurts) and the room started spinning. That's when I looked at TempMaster and tried saying I was dizzy.
I wasn't trying to wimp out, but I sensed things were going to get very ugly for me. Were it my own studio, I would've said something to Master, so I didn't feel bad about saying it to TempMaster.
He nodded and said, "Dizzy, I understand." He took me to the side and told me to do 30 slow, controlled roundhouses, placing one hand on the window ledge for support. While I did that (and some slow side kicks to a count of 4 beats) they did more backwards somersaulting, including backwards somersaulting into a standing position (my neck would not have been able to handle that), and cartwheels.
We did some poomse work after that. When we finished the tae geuk series, I saw Purple Belt working on Pal Jang. I walked up to her and said, "같이?" She nodded and we worked together. After we'd gone through it a few times, I asked if she wanted to work on Sa or Oh Jang. She had a hard time choosing and I stood there with 4 and 5 fingers up, shaking my hips, whispering, "Sa jang, oh jang, sa jang, oh..." to the Jeopardy! theme. She started giggling and chose sa jang.
Brown Belt joined us and we were doing fine until I got to "열아홉." I didn't realize I was on "19" and I had to count to nine on my fingers to fix myself. She and Brown Belt just smiled at me. The next time we did it I tried saying "what's next" with 다음 뭐해요? I'm sure if that's correct, but she understood and started doing the moves before me, albeit with a whole lot of hesitation.
At least I didn't mess up and forget this time.
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From the sounds of it you were working on the same form I was yesterday. Of course, its the only form I'm working on currently. I remember you mentioning earlier that you are using walking stance in the forms. Is that true for Sa Jang as well? Mr. Coleman has us using front stances and back stances in the form. Actually, we never use a 'walking' stance. Always front stances.
Brittney
This is probably just a matter of terms and the fact that I've learned so many different names for the same thing.
Front stance, forward inflection stance, long stance, apkubi, all the same thing.
Short stance, walking stance, forward stance, apseogi, all the same thing.
Backstance, dwitkubi, same thing.
Sa (4) Jang indeed has both apkubi and apseogi in it, according to the Kukkiwon handbook at least. When you're returning to the original point, you turn to the left and do a body block and punch, then turn 180 around and do the same thing. Those are in walking stance. The final two body blocks/double body punches are in long stance.
Il (1), Ee (2) and Sam (3) Jang all have both front stances and walking stances.
Thanks!
Brit
Brittney
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