I've got blisters on me fingers

It felt good to be swinging the old Kwan Dao around on Friday. An hour is a long time to be swinging it around, I've got some wicked blisters on my thumbs. I felt like I made a lot of progress in the last I Ho Chuan class. Unfortunately I've forgotten a fair bit of my old form. I've been trying to piece it together with mixed results. I think I've got about 65 percent of it back but there's still a lot of gaps.

So far my approach has been to just try and remember moves but now I think I'm just going to remodel the form. Instead of worrying about remembering every detail I can take this opportunity to recreate it. The positive side of this is I can cut out some of the stuff I didn't like as much and make the form shorter. It was a bit too long before. The forgotten parts are mostly the in between moves. I remember most of the highlights.

I've definitely lost a lot of finesse with the weapon. It will take me a lot more practice to get my strength and control back to where it used to be. The expansion is going to be a lifesaver for me to get more practice time in.

My week

Last week was a good week. I played a few games of squash and it felt fantastic. After an hour and a half of squash on Wednesday I had pretty much worked the stiffness out of my knee. Then my whole body was super sore for the next couple of days, a feeling its missed.

I also found out that we were accepted for a grant I applied for to sponsor the Pandamonium. It should take week or two for the check to make it through accounting and into my hands. I was hoping to have it in time for the Pandamonium but it might be just a little late. Either way we have $500 to put towards the event and the charities.

I was down in Conklin for a day of work and it got in a fair bit of overtime. It was the first time I've been down there. There are some huge plants out in the middle of nowhere, it was strange to see. I slept until one pm yesterday and it felt great.

Results

I got my MRI results back this weekend and its good news. Turns out the cartilage in my knee isn't damaged. I just had a bad sprain to a ligament. Since the ligament was stretched, the fix is to start exercising it so it can tighten up again. I'm happy to hear that exercising it is safe. I've been experimenting with it the past week or so and the aches and pains I was getting made me decide to lay off it until I knew what was up. I was really worried about making it worse.

In celebration I tried playing an easy game of squash with a friend today. The leg was pretty stiff and I didn't run very hard but by the end of the match it felt pretty good. I'll be sore tomorrow but in a good way. Now its time to get back into the swing of things!