It's been a long time since I am involved in a performance as a performer. Really forgotten how it actually feels to be a performer to bask in this kind of atmosphere. Probably the last time I was involved in such performance was the 集体九节鞭 in the National Indoor Stadium in 2001 with the 99’ batch of kids?
This time I was involved in the drums and wushu performance. Well, the last time I did drums was more than 10 years ago? And for wushu, I am doing 三节棍进棍with jiaolian and 九节鞭. The whole performance lasted for ard 16min. It was really a challenge! For the drums, I was only able to join the whole team for practice for only 3 times before the performance due to my hectic schedule. For the九节鞭, it was my first time doing it as a solo performance, so not very familiar with the routine. And the 三节棍进棍 is also very new as we dun get to practice it often. So everything to me is new! What a challenge… Haha…
The sequence was like this: Mass drums performance, 三节棍进棍, 形意拳，雪片刀，春秋大刀，空手对刀，九节鞭，洪拳 and mass drums performance again.
Luckily on the actual performance, the drums went well for me. But when it comes to the sparring routine, we make a mistake on the 2nd move! N the whole sparring routine became a totally new routine! We performed the routine by feel and the signals and cue given by jiaolian. But later when we watched the video, the sparring looked surprisingly fluid, though we made many many mistakes. N I got a very swollen finger contributed by jiaolian. Haha… Next was九节鞭, there was only around 5min of rest between my sparring routine and 九节鞭. Tried to speed up, but was still panting due to the sparring with jiaolian. Well, no mistakes tough, juz a bit slow… :P The whole performance went well as a whole and 得到全场最热烈的掌声！(Though we feel dat our performance is still not up to standard yet) We became rather famous after the performance. Many people came to talk to us and congratulate us. Not forgetting many who came to take photos with jiaolian… Hee… Well, for a performer or a competitor, cheer, support and acknowledgement from frens and audience are what make him/her feels good. :)
Basically, this trip is a rewarding one. Made many new frens from different part of the world n get to eat a lot a lot of vegetarian food everyday, to the extend that I couldn’t try every dish available. We also get to 切磋 with 2 taiji masters in Taiwan and a Wing Chun master from US. On the day before we left Taiwan, we were caught in a situation where I got to learn, 江湖人讲江湖话，出来江湖走就必须懂江湖的Law! And I remember, before we went to the other Master’s 武馆 to settle some issue, jiaolian told me, “穿轻便一点” and that totally psyched me up. N luckily, nothing happened… hahaha…
Ya... tokking abt Wushu Law... please do not anyhow comment on other ppl's wushu on their blog or on youtube, or forum, etc, especially negative comments!!! I dun wish to be accused for not coaching my students well and I do not wish to be the next person to 敬茶认错 hor... For those who see this post, pls spread the msg around!!! Thank you... Thank you... Haha... Too many interesting things happening in the wushu world these days liao ... :P
