The blind man sees- Kung Fu by candlelight

[Ken Meeks]

What a quality experience. I gained awareness through blindness. All right, not complete blindness, but reduced visibility. The class presented a rare opportunity to train with others under low light conditions. Although, if you are looking for real training, ask your spouse to take a romanctic moonlit stroll, then when you find a sufficiently dark spot explain that you really just wanted to train Kung Fu in the dark. This will cause your spouse to try to hit you....Voila, instant training.

But seriously, the class raised my awareness in several ways:

1) Diminshed light can be used to one's advantage;

2) Diminished light requires one to act/react differently to one's opponent; and

3) Practicing in low light forces the mind to compensate by heightening other senses. This is advantageous when one then faces an opponent under normal light.

......now if I can only get my neighbors to believe that my playing around in my yard late at night is perfectly normal.........