Date: October 13, 2013
Location: Tewksbury Park
Weather: In the 60's. Windy & sunny. A little chilly.
Attendance: Me, Tom, Charlie, Tim

Today's routine:
Warm Ups
Circlewalk - External
Stretches
Kicks
Baji

Summary:
I was wearing a wick t-shirt coming in to class. When he saw me, Mr. Tu advised me to wear a 2nd layer, so I went to pick up my long sleeve wick in the car. During the warm ups, I've noticed my body's stiffness from playing computer games the night before. After the warm up routine, we then moved to the sunny area at the top of the parking area hill. Tom led the kicks routine. Mr. Tu noticed a couple of people, dad & son maybe, started playing catch football where we usually park our car. To avoid our car being hit by the football, Mr. Tu advised us to move our car closer to where we were practicing. Overall, our group was a little quiet today. Mr. Tu pointed out some corrections on Baji. Angle correction on my form. Emphasis on horse stance for everyone was also mentioned. He pointed out the blocks in the form. He started telling stories of how he trained Baji before. He mentioned about it being the healthiest time of his life: hard training and eating lots of food (vegetarian?). Tom left early, during one of our Baji breaks. I noticed he liked to do the Baji form in a faster pace. He was in the front of the line when we started, so I was following him. After Tom left, Mr. Tu did some application session with high block, grab & peeling the skin while going down. Mr. Tu did not do the demo to us himself. He just guided us how to do it amongst ourselves. I tried to do it to Charlie, Charlie to me, then Tim to Charlie. We could not do it right, of course. Mr. Tu said it was too early for us to do the application, but overall, it was a taste of the move. Mr. Tu mentioned it had a feeling of arm/shoulder dislocation when done right, from his experience with his teacher. Charlie mentioned having a high cholesterol level, and about his doctor telling him to be on medication. Mr. Tu mentioned that cholesterol in general is not bad. He asked us to do more research on cholesterol & things in general. We started talking about politics, and how Republicans & Democrats are failing. The ceiling debt and Obamacare. The high influence of corporations on government, etc.