Liquid Nonsense

Day 1 Part 1:

This morning I caught up with my old friend Andy whom I haven't seen in several years. Andy and I used to be the only two people in Arizona's instructor's academy years ago. Ultimately his work caused him to move back to Huntington Beach in California and my college life just took up too much time to continue with it.

Holy fucking shit it's humid here. Like absurdly humid and hot. I have become way too accustomed to Arizona's dry heat to make this sudden of a transition. It's probably only 95 degrees outside, but probably about 90-100% humidity.

This morning was the first Masters' seminar. Grand Master Mattera and Grand Master DeMasco provided some demonstrations and some interesting material. We practiced as a group of nearly 500 on the soccer field of one of the University's here in Shanghai. As expected the material was awesome. Now I know the Master's Blocks, also known as the Dragon's Blocks, and the first half of one of the Buddha Palm forms. We get the second half in Beijing.

I'm going to drink a fuck ton of water and get ready for the afternoon. We will get a tour of the city, visit the classical Yu Gardens, see the Temple of the Jade Buddha, and tonight is a cruise on the Yong Pu (name?) river.