Three hours just fly by

If you are lucky enough to have the chance to spend them with Dr. Cheng!
A wonderful time this afternoon. He greated me as if we had known each other for ages, and quickly helped me through my initial embarrassment. I haven't spoken any English in the last couple of years, but it turned out to be not as tragically rusty as I had feared it would be :) We had some coffee and then a walk along the Danube, covering a diversity of topics, from his experiences at the Certs in Minnesota and Denmark to Pavel, Rif and Kenneth Jay to the evolution of the RKC system to the interview with Gray Cook to Nikki and the inspirative energy of the like-minded to Hungarian curiosities to children to some "guilty" secrets; there were deep insights and just plain fun, too :) And, in a park nearby, he even taught me some basic concepts of Wing Chun combat. His skills of focusing on the main principles and bringing things down to simple points really amazed me. I must say, he is also one of the most polite persons I've ever met: he kept encouraging me even though I probably made the impression of a grizzly trying to learn tightrope walking :)
So much wisdom and human warmth - I'm looking forward to working with him over the weekend!