Great meditating stuff. I enjoy the posture meditating and it
seems as I get older I enjoy it more. When I was young I thought it
was sort of a waste of time,, as more active practice was what I
wanted,,but I know those long , long moments in Pole position
developed something inside me. I can see it and feel it today.
My Wu Sifu today does a bit of it,, but not as lengthy as we
used to do over sea's,, I guess for fear of losing students.. Im not
sure. Or maybe just because of Time retraints.
But on my own at home I practice pole sitting and it always helps.
For those of you that do hand training. As I get older I also tend
to work on the Makiwara more,,I can feel the Chi improve as I use it.
I can still strike it very hard and it tends to improve my
coordination and waist turning. I cant do the bag work for kicks as
I used to (as much),,but I still work on the basic kicks, and use the
Chisei everyother day for my weight work outs.
One question i have for you or anyone else in here,,is for hands.
Even though I love working out on the makiwara,, i tend to have
aches especially in lower thumb and wrist areas,, this is from
arthritis and years of doing karate. I bought some Dit Ja Jow in San
Francisco,,but it was the ready made stuff from a Chinese Pharmacy,
wanted to get some dry herbs and make it myself, so it would be a
little stronger. I make it at home also myself,,from normal over the
counter stuff from the Drug store,,but it tends to be a little
oily,,but it actually works pretty good. Does anyone in here have
any good perscription for a good hand lotion,,even a iron hand lotion
would be good,,if anyone knows how to make it. I know yall WuShu
folks would have good stuff for this.

Charles "Mike"