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Musha Shugyô: April 2015
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Friday, April 10, 2015. A sharp knife is a safe knife. You're less likely to force through, it's less likely to buckle and, if you get cut, you heal much better. Much. Really. In the knife-using circles I've known, those points above are so basic, they're often not even told. The same way you're not told your feet touch the ground. Remember the kid from last week. Thanks to him, I found an interesting site on teaching knife-use to kids. And s...
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Musha Shugyô: Imperfection and profession
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Thursday, May 28, 2015. I was doing some cooking and something came to me. I had to slice some onions. I like to waste as little as possible, so I try to use as many layers as possible, and cut as close to the base and the tip as possible. This costs me some extra effort and time. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Taken from KSDI-Europe's website. Tatsumi ryu at Itsukushima. Robert Rodriguez [Suiô ryû and ZNKR]. Back in the saddle part 3.
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Musha Shugyô: November 2014
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Monday, November 24, 2014. At the very least from the inside. Thing is, getting ready for the test, maybe seeing some techniques together, or training them slightly differently, allowed me to see some things that point into interesting directions. And that I don't yet understand completely, not even in execution. So, to me, getting ready for black belt has been, in part, the removal. And yet, the black belt sanctuary myth keeps on. However, h...
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Musha Shugyô: Mistranslations... still there
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Mistranslations. still there. We've known for a while, those who wanted to hear, that a lot of problems with "traditional" Western understanding of martial arts (very specially karate, but also kendo, Chinese systems.) was a matter of translation, of trying to explain very intimate sensations to people with a different language paradigm. As long as this has been known, it's annoying that it's still there. We should do...
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Musha Shugyô: Martial arts are social
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Friday, July 17, 2015. Martial arts are social. They've been for several decades, with some very specific exceptions. This means that they're subject to the same constrains and bumps as other social interactions. Three examples:. But learning is social. Teaching is also social. How do you deal with martial arts long term unless you deal with the social part? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Taken from KSDI-Europe's website. Some years of J...
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Musha Shugyô: Geometry
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. External martial arts (because I don't know squat about internal) are all about geometry. No matter if it's karate (Goju-ryû, or Kyokushinkai), or savate, or. Deflection is geometry, footwork is geometry, even punching. How can I stand upright, then? Yes, yes, obvious. until the example is not quite as clear. "Do X in a straight line" But. er. it's an arch. Which is another reason it's not done, of course. Memoirs of...
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Musha Shugyô: March 2015
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Friday, March 27, 2015. Soemtimes you have one of those glimpses that makes you see things much more clearly. and realize you've been a fool until then. And both share the same basic deflection. I'd seen it, sort of, before. The idea was the same, but instead of using the arm, you were using a 3-feet blade. Tatsumi ryu has mukou. The strong hand grips the sword while the weak one. grips both sword and arm and reinforces it. Not on...These thi...
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Musha Shugyô: May 2015
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Thursday, May 28, 2015. I was doing some cooking and something came to me. I had to slice some onions. I like to waste as little as possible, so I try to use as many layers as possible, and cut as close to the base and the tip as possible. This costs me some extra effort and time. We were doing some basic kali, this week. Snake disarms. Very basic, since kali is not our thing, just a way to get familiar with weapons and their effects. What I'...
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Musha Shugyô: Teenage-level socialization monkeys
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Thursday, July 23, 2015. I think I've written before about my friends with kid. Watching him grow, I've sort of realized (some more) how basic some. social interactions are. Tantrums, negotiation. Then, something else happened. But they were adult pros. The don't fall into such elementary mistakes, do they? Now, imagine all that under violence. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Taken from KSDI-Europe's website. Tatsumi ryu at Itsukushima.
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Musha Shugyô: January 2015
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To those who've seen the Abyss up close and still keep a soul. Saturday, January 31, 2015. I've been thinking around our blocks. About ways to train them basically. Think kung-fu film routines. Or Karate Kid, either Hawai'i or Beijing. Then I recalled a couple of our syllabus techniques against a baton strike, the one for our fifth coloured belt. The circle. A circle it has created itself. The mindset for this is, in a way, as anti-ju (or anti-aiki) as you might imagine. So, Kajukenbo, the bouncing art?
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