Insights #7
Insights to Kempo
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50m
This class addresses the criticism that the material on tape looks staged, with Hanshi Juchnik turning the question on its head: the reason staged movement does not work is that it ignores spontaneity, environment, and appreciation for the opponent. The discussion covers the thirty-four methods of kumite and how prejudice toward one method (the kumite person, the nage person, the historian, the healer) becomes a hindrance, why age determines what a practitioner gravitates toward, the Burt Reynolds syndrome of viewing oneself as the only thing that exists, the trailer movement that lets the body come to the arm naturally, and applications drawn from Juni Ippo. The session ends with attention to muscle tension as the real problem in most failed technique.
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