
In my mind,t hat's OK as he needed to find that out and I wasn't going to hurt him, intentionally anyway. plus, you can only comprehend things as fast as you can take in the info and evaluate it.Īnyway, we're pretty close to "This is getting stupid" speed, but pretty far from DropBear's "Full Noise" or as I call it "Full-tilt boogie" speed. = (0.5)M times V(squared) Speed kills, because it's an exponential increasor of the kinetic energy involved. It was fun, and we were both laughing as things flashed into place, almost, and were defeated and dealt with faster and faster.Īs an aside, you know the problem with fast practice? K.E. Just the other day I was involved in a pre-class randori session with my nidan student, who was amping the speed up. something happens which is well nigh perfect technique. Your posture and position is correct, uke has lost theirs and being disadvantaged, the minimal effort (force) you exert in this or that vector causes a chain of events magnified by uke's own musculoskeletal system, gravity or both, and. I've felt it, and it is a neat feeling, simple to explain, hard to understand. Though it might be fun to "Get the glow!" This last for you The Last Dragon fans. Or, if projection isn't the goal, to drop the person at the artist's feet, crumpled into a submitting heap, unable to continue the attack for whichever reason befell them. The technique comes off without hardly any noticeable effort on tori's (nage's) part, seeming to effortlessly send uke across the room with the artist seeming to hardly move. For me, I call it, feel it, describe it as Ki is when you do it right, and everything falls into place and everything is in its place. IF you can get it translated, which is the hard part. makes perfect sense from a Western science, physical, measurable world, point of view. He went on to describe how many of the Chinese medicine terminology. I mean, stand up straight, pull your shoulders back and grab good posture. he broke into a grin and laughing, said, "Sorry. George had run across this before and while he delivered the line straight-faced, deadpan. WTF is a heart chakra and how do I find one in Oklahoma Arkansas or Texas. George said, "At the first instant, when you establish the connection to uke, you should already have, or immediately should, open up your heart chakra."


I watched a Windsong Dojo (Oklahoma City) seminar in which George ledyard (aikido dude of some reknown) gave us an explanation in which he used a Chinese medicine phrase which had everyone on the mat cringing and squirming as they knelt watching and waiting.
