Skimming again
Originally Posted by
Asura
No, you're only parroting your former teacher's view on this
Again, skippy, give an example. As I have stated MANY times, Mochizuki sensei did NOT use ki as any kind of explanation.
Now are you just committed to mis-stating and mis-representing other people's views, like an adolescent, or do you have an example of where I quoted Mochizuki sensei on ki?
Quite the opposite. Pretty much ALL my views on this come from my readings, my experience with accupuncturists and shiatsuists and my experience in taiji, xing yi, bagua and aiKIdo.
Has that crossed into your brain, Asura?
Are you clear on that?
Do you need to STOP right here and go back and read what I just said?
Okay? Are you ready to proceed as an adult and deal with what I'm really saying?
I remember an 8th Dan kendo teacher in NYC, Ebihara. Awesome guy, great teacher(I thought at the time). I was a couple years down the line in my practice, and I knew, felt, that the older guys moved "different" than the younger ones. So I asked him to explain it...lo and behold he gives me the tired old,"Do the shoumen strike over and over", and the "you have to hold your Ki down here in the hara", and that was that.
When you consider that his teacher probably also refused to spoonfeed the answer to him, I don't consider it unreasonbable at all. I learned sword without having to be told precisely "how" to do it. Many years of practice and kata made me ready for lessons with masters.
He didn't want to tell you.
"#$"hole.
Like I said. A BOY's attitude.
Come back when you grow up.
Lol, the thing is, I can now "do" what he was doing
Gee, since I can't reach you, why don't you give yourself a big pat on the back? Already done that, huh? Okay.
But I will say to your claim, "I can now 'do; what he was doing": BS. You THINK you can. You CLAIM you can. I don't even care enough to question that. Promote yourself to King of France, while you're at it.
so I "know" it's a physical bodyskill. Nothing more nothing less.
No, you know that what YOU do is a purely physical skill. You still don't know for sure what HE was doing.
Besides, I suggest you talk to the Hsing-yi boxers on the mainland or Taiwan(You studied CMAs right?)
They have a clear seperation between the philisophical metaphysical discussion of Qi, and what physically goes on in their body. Generally the two are considered seperate
So they, too, teach as I teach?
As I said, I consider ki to be much more a matter of daily life than of martial technique. But then, YOU were the one who insisted on addressing ONLY the "martial" aspects of ki...
Unless of course you insist that people like Luo De Xiu (in Taiwan) or Sam Chin (in NYC) are only talking out of their !!!.
No, it sounds like they are saying exactly what I am saying. The talking out the !!! would sound like you.
On the other hand reading your post describing how you do your kuzushi, it's pretty clear you don't have it, to be quite blunt. Then again you might. (It has to be felt to be shown "IHTBFTBS" applies here )
But I'd bet good money that you don't.
That did NOT describe how I do my kuzushi, you poor reader. That was only a description of the interaction of two human skeletons in close proximity. I don't have kuzushi like Mochizuki sensei, who could get you off balance with a simple grip of your sleeve.
Besides, Ueshiba was vague on purpose. He didn't want to teach his students anything.
Hmm. Mochizuki had no trouble learning from him. Nor did Shioda.
Otherwise we'd be seeing a second Ueshiba around. But we don't
Well since you're in Japan, I suggest you head to Shizuoka and see Kyoichi Murai while he is still alive. Lay some of your BS on him.
He didn't give away his bodyskill training techniques. (Or rather he did, but no one listened).
That is a hugely ignorant statement.
blah de blah de blah... he was doing the old "ha ha, I know it you, but you don't. If you do, well, welcome to the club"
You have to mold the body physically to get those harmonies. They're not "natural" persay.
Yes, they are natural. That proves that you are king of BS and backward in all your thinking.
David Orange, Jr.
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