Insights #6
Insights to Kempo
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33m
This class continues the work on senses with the principle that if a practitioner creates the illusion, it can become the reality. Hanshi Juchnik introduces the exchange method, where money, words, sex, or vocabulary serve as the power base of different personality types, and applies the same principle to combat by identifying which sense is dominant at which range. The discussion covers what happens to the visual plane once adrenaline kicks in, how to create illusions with the eyes, manipulating the opponent's center by making the arm into the new center, the role of breath and smell, why the body expects a certain breathing pattern, and the sixth sense as the regulator that ties the others together. Self-study is presented as the foundation for being able to be several different people in combat.
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