Honing my eye for detail

         I've been noticing that my kicks with my left side feel sort of dead.  Now, I know I have had issue with my left hip for years, lot of scar tissue and poor mobility, which I am constantly working on.  Having said that, I feel it doesn't engage the same way my right does, and as such, my sensitivity to it is less, as in, I don't feel the energy as much.  So I have been focusing at the gym more on single leg movements to make sure that both legs are engaging the muscles and that one isn't taking over for the other.  In the Kwoon and at home in my training, I'm going back to basics, slowing things down a bit, and working on that mind muscle connection and engagement.

         As far as my forms go, I’m working on feeling the form more.  Where it is I find I have good energy transfer, where I don’t.  Where things feel solid and where things are feeling sloppy.  Where there is flow vs where there isn’t.  I can never do this all at once, I can focus mostly on one aspect, maybe two at a time.  Otherwise with too many thoughts racing around my head, my intent goes out the window and I’m not really working on anything.  Our instructors always say never to do the form the same way, and I don’t think I could if I tried.  And I have tried.  The thing is, is even though my intent might be the same from one repetition to the other, I’m also actively trying to improve, so each rep is always slightly different. Not always for the better either. Sometimes a “bad” rep gets in, but that too is also a way for me to feel out the form and know what I want to avoid, and how it feels when things aren’t aligned.