Insights #11
Insights to Kempo
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44m
This class introduces the term "wild energy" as new vocabulary for what happens when an opponent's skeletal and muscular structure is dispersed so that it cannot focus or move properly. Hanshi Juchnik uses the rock and water analogy where the rock entering scatters everything around it, and the rolling pin analogy for what wild energy does to the body. The discussion covers reversing body movement against an opponent's natural attempt to come forward and meet center, posturing and positioning during the blocking mode, taking away an opponent's focus so he has to regroup, refinding center, and the moment of condensing motion when the strike actually lands. The principle of not blocking but posturing, power generation from gedan, and stretching the technique close the class.
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