Hello,

I told you all I would try to send out information to help you along in your journey towards martial understanding. I tried to figure what would be the best information to share with you, and it seemed that the first step should obviously be sharing the required syllabus with you. Each class has a core curriculum of basics to comprehend and memorize, and only then can we begin to refine them into a working style. The best way to know if you are understanding all the techniques would be, of course, to have a list of those skills.

If you like, feel free to print these out and bring them to class with any questions.

Way of 4 Elements (body movement)

Footwork and basics of the way of 4 .

Elemental form #1 Agni reborn

Elemental form #2 Lady Midday’s question

Elemental form #3 Fossegrim’s fiddle

Elemental form #4 Ehecatl catches a butterfly

Lantern and fan form #5 Forethought’s stolen flame

Lantern and fan form #6 Laughter of the goose

Lantern and fan form #7 Riding the brook horse

Lantern and fan form #8 Lix whips his tail

Tendril form #9 Iblis bows to man

Tendril form #10 Behemoth bends the tree

Tendril form #11 Drawing out Leviathan

Tendril form #12 Anu the judge

Ashes to ashes form #13 Waking Raiju

Ashes to ashes form #14 Fox Witch’s Stone

Ashes to ashes form #15 Wodjanoj’s servant

Ashes to ashes form #16 Divine wind

Uprooting form #17 Red twilight of Surt

Uprooting form #18 Powrie pushes the stone

Uprooting form #19 Neptune shoes his steed

Uprooting form #20 Hammer of Thor

Way of 4 Elements (playing hands)

Footwork      

Difference between dancing, practicing, and playing hands  

Blocking (Half moon. Full moon dances)

Striking (vertical and horizontal collapsing punch)

Riposting (eclipse and new moon)

Coordination (lightning hand and hundred hand)

Rhythm (heaven and earth punch. Chains)

28 days dance

Introduction to Reaction (360 and bursting)

Introduction to Grappling (clinching, tendril hand)

Sensitivity (push hands for one and 2 hands)

Introduction to Hardening (stone arm, and stone fist)

Snap knee (vertical and horizontal)

snap kick (front and roundhouse)

piston kick (side, front, and knee buckle)

wrist escapes (same and alternate escape, same and alternate bind)

choke escapes (push up on elbows. windmill elbows)

self defense combos

lix spins

fall and roll stand

front and back tumble

Sacrifice throw and shoulder throw

Playing hands