Greetings Cheung Lo, you won't know me, but I am a former student of the Abbey Dojo (when it was at the Abbey Community Centre, in Abbey Road, from where it takes its name ). Please give my highest regards to Jee Sensei (Cailey and Joe too... ).
I understand what you're saying about thinking and reacting under the biological restrictions imposed by our body chemistry. It must be possible to devise some exercises to illustrate the limitations, and hopefully to learn how to adapt and overcome the handicap. Unfortunately I have no idea how to go about developing such an exercise, perhaps we need to tackle the Sports Science students at Glasgow University.
One thing that may help... I visited my nephew's class in Jiu-Jitsu years ago, to watch him train (I'm going back years and years, to when he was about 14). The class was a Juniors class, with students ranging from 11-15 years. The training included a few more "games" and light-hearted elements than the exclusively adult classes that I was attending at the time. During the warm-up and stretches, the instructor would keep up a barrage of questions to which everyone was encouraged to call out the answers. It kept the children's attention during a time when they were most likely to start drifting, and also had an educational value. He would call out "how many bones in the hand?", "what are the names of the bones in your lower leg?", "what is your cranium?", etc.
Perhaps this could be modified to take place during a high energy exercise like kihon (safer to do it standing still than on the move ), with questions more relevant to Shorinji Kempo training.
David Noble
Shorinji Kempo (1983 - 1988)
I'll think of a proper sig when I get a minute...
For now, I'm just waiting for the smack of the Bo against a hard wooden floor....