This second DVD accompanies the Kata no Michi textbook and goes deeper into the concepts and theories within the text. Hanshi Juchnik explains mind, wind, and direction in detail, where mind represents the part of the anatomy free from bondage and able to initiate motion, wind represents inertia or energy, and direction is the unhindered application of the strike. The tape covers loading and the coil point, quadrants and cloaking movement, the razor's edge concept, and demonstrations of how to break kuzushi (balance point) before moving, including the use of the stutter step in transitional motion.
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Kempo History
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Dan Enn Sho
This tape presents the Dan Enn Sho form, brought into the Sei Kosho Shorei Kai through the late Robert Trias and traced back to its Chinese origins in the Hebei school of Xing Yi under master Li Cunyi. The kata reflects characteristics of several of the twelve animals of Xing Yi, including the cr...
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Miyama: Three Mountain Revisited
This more advanced look at Miyama, primarily Miyama One, breaks through some of the barriers that arise when practitioners view the form through their existing assumptions about martial arts. Hanshi Juchnik emphasizes that kata and kumite are not separate, that any movement of the form should all...
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