The Days are just packed.

It is good to feel New England's cold morning air in the summer. Florida was fun. But I really do love New England and JP especially. The days pass so easily with things to do. We went to play grounds after our morning exercises. I do mine, and Noah does his while Jonah plays with blocks. This actually works and isn't necessarily a cop out on my part. My rule is as long as Noah does practice his Sup Ji or Kuen Gwan Do (fist stick knife/sword) then he can do his own. As long as Jonah plays happily and undisruptively, he can. But if not, everyone does my stretches and exercises.

Then it's playground. Internal days means some light Mein Lay jum for Noah. External days Noah can do his own, provided that he really does do it. In fact Noah started practicing in a way in the woods, that I did not start doing until I was in my 20's . He started off with his form, then progressed to free style and then for his rest he did free style internal. His freestyle was heavily influenced that the forms I taught him but he used the techniques spontaneously and was in low stance.
"You're practicing better than me right now!" I told him as I just ran through basics. I need to build back up to that or I might hurt myself.
In fact I was hurt today trying to play barefoot soccer with Noah. The problem was, while trying to tempt him with the ball his shod foot kicked my pinky toe. Annoyingly, it still hurts so I put medicine on it.

But as for his bractice in the woods Noah was excellent. All he really needs now is more Gung lik and perhaps more speed in terms of his ma, stance. Like if he was able to jump backward and forward really far and have a very strong punch, he would actually be able to spar with me. But as it is now, of course even a child his age, that is stronger can still hurt him. But in terms of Kung Fu, I think he has really surpassed me in some ways. I'm not saying he is super acrobatic and all that showy circussy stuff. Sure that would make his forms look even better. But I'm not going to force him to learn that or even practice it if he doesn't want to.
Just work on what he is doing and get better. Sometimes, like in the woods, he really touched some sort of divine creative art. But other times, he looks like he's not even really doing Kung Fu. It's not consistent.

At the end he did walking basics with me, while Jonah complained that he wanted to go home. Lunch and then card games followed as well as dulcimer (which was harder for everyone than Kung Fu.)

Let's see how the second External day turns out.