Full Lotus Dislocation

It had been a day since he had chosen his teacher. During the day he had remaining in order to prepare himself Daniel decided to read a more in depth book on Tai Chi.

Daniel was always amazed by Tai Chi he had already learned a lot about the martial art but it never ceased to interest him. One of the many types of Tai Chi is neigong or qigong, furthermore there was the taolu or solo forms.

It brought an amazing amount of variation to the art and from what he had read it was brilliant for health and body foundations. It was no wonder why the representatives had chosen Tai Chi to be first on the list.

With all of his time spent reading about Tai Chi Daniel barely remembered to go to sleep before the next day. It would be a tiring day if he didn't sleep well.

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The next morning after getting only here hours of sleep Daniel was awoken by his teacher slapping him awake. Daniel immediately jumped up but understood his teacher had probably tried less brutal methods first.

His teacher seemed to be calming his breathing when Daniel looked up at him so he waited for his teacher to speak. A few seconds later his teacher looked at him and said "I am your sensei or master and you will call me as such, we will be beginning your training immediately."

Daniel nodded and barely had the time to check what time it was before being dragged away from the comfort of his sleep, three in the morning. As it was January Daniel felt very awake the moment they got outside as he began to shiver.

His sensei didn't seem to notice however and brought Daniel to a courtyard. The courtyard was spacious and Daniel had plenty of room for whatever practise might be forced on him.

Standing in front of Daniel his sensei said "You will now learn to meditate. We will be using ever single morning for this until you can do it on command."

Daniel immediately calmed his mind as best he could and nodded with no small amount of determination. His sensei nodded and said "I will now show you the Full Lotus."

Saying so Daniel's sensei sat on the ground and almost naturally placed his two feet on the opposite thigh. Daniel watched as he did this and couldn't help but be confused. Daniel would be lying if he said he hadn't tried it before but he could never figure out how people did it. His sensei seemed to sense this and said "Watch carefully."

He then proceeded to do it again, although slower, and Daniel couldn't help but marvel at how his legs seemed to bend out of shape. Daniel decided to try mimicking his sensei, so sitting down Daniel crossed his legs and replayed what his sensei did in his mind.

Confident Daniel got one leg in place but the moment he got the second in place a cracking sound was heard. Daniel's ankle had been dislocated.