Documentation

I’ve been trying to document the karate I’ve been learning, since I sense that I’m rapidly exceeding my ability to remember random crap. Plus, I know that at some point I’ll have to take a month or two off, and I’ll forget everything. Just the basic techniques and combinations are already up to six pages of fairly dense chicken scratch.

Blind man:
•	Dragon block to right, stepping out LF.  Control wrist with right hand if possible.
•	LH palm heel to head, left arm continues over opponent’s arm
•	Turn right 180 degrees, stepping with left foot.  Swing right arm between your body and opponent’s body
•	Sweep fwd with right arm and back with right leg
•	RF boot to the head

And so on. I haven’t even tried to write down a form or a weapon yet. I think I’ve learned a lot more than I’ve realized so far.

In other news, I have to be at BU tomorrow (south bank of the Charles river) at 8am. This means that I must leave my garage between 6:30 and 6:45. Uuuuuuuungh. All this for the dubious privilege of giving a 30 minute talk over the Access Grid. I hate talking to videoconference audiences. My timing is for crap, and the feedback from the audience is delayed enough to be simply random.