X marks the spot

I have been working on forms in the sand the last few days and must admit, it really makes a not so bad looking form into a really sucks looking form. It's been a great work out on the legs though and I am hoping to have the stability of a steel column by the time I am done training here. Another really cool part about this terrain is it leaves a complete map of your footing, stances, transisitions, and linear movements. The impressions left in the sand show how much weight is being transferred and where your heel is not down all the way. In others words it tells you everything you need to know about what your doing in a particular form. I used it today to track all of my foot movements in Loa Gar and was quite pleased to witness a perfect square. However, I completely missed my starting point "X" upon completion.... by about 5 ft.... to the left ....and I had not even began to flip the shield to return to it. Long ways to go yet but I have the time and nothing better to do except enjoy Kung Fu.