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So what I want you to do, is stand in seigan,
and I would like the partner, to be safe,
to cup one hand over the tip and then grab the tip with the other hand. And give it a good
grip.
Because what I'm going to do, is to see if I've got the proper...
have the proper structure here. So first thing
is just passive... (Well I mean to the extent that anything is passive) Get down into
your legs.
This should be springy...
nice posture... and then get your extension out.
and what I would like your partner to do is push... and pull...
a little harder...
Ok?
Just start with that... This is your ground path... then we're going to
practice how to release that, without disconnecting things.
like the arm moving separately from your center... Everything...
is "whole body movement" which is what Kuroda Sensei would say...
Okay? So
right now just start with, am I solid?
without worrying about the movement. He'll push... he'll pull...
I should really be relaxed here... these muscles should be relatively soft,
I mean they're extending, no question...
but within this... like if he's pushing and pulling,
I should be able to move fluidly
inside that without being unstable. Ok?
If you're tightening up to resist what they're doing,
it's not right yet. I so picking on Ichiro only because he's somewhat representative.
Wize guy. eh?
So, why's this happening?
Buler? Anyone?
So, if you disconnect this, and then the arms start out,
even a little bit... right about here...
then the draw here is running this spiral.
And the wave the goes this way, and it will take you right up off your base.
Ok, so...
where's that left hand extend? Where's that left hand supposed to extend?
You drop a plum straight down your center..
it should come out between your feet... and from that spot,
out about 40 inches, and that's where this
extends to. This hand is extending down to the floor.
and even when he does a tsuki, the range is no greater than this.
So that it's never not extending to the floor...
The moment it starts to extend out... the sword disconnects
from your center. Ok? So,
before you push and pull on your partner,
come over here put your hand under their left hand and try and live straight up.
Ok? Now, do your shoulders go up and down while you are doing this?
Yeah! So that's good... So, if you keep that extension into the floor...
You let me go on then... Keep it...
This is extending out from your hara but that's extending down
and, make your elbows heavy... Ah!
Things just got a lot more solid.
They're still spongy though... Now,
drop into your legs... because you see that that wobble I'm getting up there?
Much better...
Can you see how though, he has to energize against what I'm doing?
There's a little moment in there... If I did this just little faster,
he'd be gone before he could energize against, it because he's not
already energized. Whereas,
this
little bit of flex in here... I'm not rigid... but when he pulls, it goes out and hits
my front extension, when he pushes it goes into my back leg...
Ok? And there's no wobble up here...
Whatever shock absorption is happening,
is happening in here where the elbows are. If I white-knuckle this,
and make my arms rigid, that push will go right into my center.
He'll hit it, and I'll get pushed back. Ok?
So this is just like in empty hand... If Josh came over and grabbed me,
and he starts pushing,
it's the elbow, and the flex of the elbow... So that no matter how hard he pushes...
this is soft. And that takes right into the floor.
The moment I make this tight... It goes up, hits my shoulders, and takes me off my base.
So with sword... Gleason Sensei was talking about about,
with sword, the handle is the elbow.
So when it's empty hand, your fingers are the tip obviously, and the elbow
is crucial to everything. Ok?
We use elbow power in what we do. Okay?
With sword, this is the elbow. It has to be down and grounded.
So, the Ki extension
is from your Hara out there, out in the distance.
But your physical extension,
from your arms, which is also your elbows,
goes into the floor so you have a ground path. If they both go that way,
You're unstable. Ok? So, see if you can get this relaxing,
Ok? Also, as much as you can,
your hands are coming together, so your shoulders do round a little on sword...
but see if you can open up that heart chakra
so... see? this... when you do this, when these shoulder blades slide together, your
shoulders drop down here,
You open that chest up, you get even more solid. Pull...
Okay?
You have to create a line... this elbow should feel heavy...
you have a nice vertical here...ok?
This... you have to create a line of intent from this hand down to the floor...
to about there. Ok? Then you create another line of intent
from your Hara out your tip. Ok?
You actually need to have another mental line of intent
from your center back. Like back there someplace...
And that's actually, probably, for most people, the hardest one to do.
is worse all visual it's not hard to get focus to go with your eyes are gone
it's a much more difficult to get you back energize
in the systemic eyes to a whole lot of things to try and get you
to energize evenly in your back I but she's got that line down
and this line out and them balance is it
with that line that goes back now
UCI you get a little because thats to your legs too tight this parts great
but it by Paul now and you can't take this energy into the ground
your host as I can overpower you
now keep that extension really engine is Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben
lower ship to wait for a little lower
you see our upper body just got a lot more stable
so if you're getting unstable first thing to check is how you carry in
tension in your legs
me this whole thing with the Lex
most people stand
on the floor me so grab is trying to pull you down
and the efficient way to not go down as to run energy out your legs
against that and actually extend enough that you can
get your bone structure involves so I can get my bone structure involve my
my muscles can relax and you can actually stand this way for a really
long period of time
the problem with this is when you're standing on the floor
if they push you you tip over cuz you're sensually balancing
that is not the source of our power and what we do
so the source firepower we have to go into the floor
so instead of thinking up your legs extending
energy to compounder gravity think that your legs
as like trucks Springs or railroad car springs
they actually flexible and you
paying off the ceiling a
this is a nice internal power visualization feel like you're hanging
off the ceiling by your head
and let your entire structure sink on to the springs
if you're on the springs when he goes to push
because in the ground now watch is pushing keep pushing keep pushing keep
pushing the moment I type something in my legs
can't get the ground path anymore
so if you're having trouble being stable missus junior empty-handed everything
else
made you might be okay in your upper body but he's polling me
were pushing me and I'm gonna pick thats totally likes
push poor and why is this important causes your platform everything you do
weathers empty hand or weapons work it doesn't matter all that stuff is out
there
if you don't have this your host
you don't have a platform for any the techniques that you know how to do
and so somebody who's stronger than you are comes in hard
just take your eye doctor basin and you can't do anything
I so this is really crucial and it gets neglected a lot
I'm so before we do anything else we gotta set the platform
then we figure out how to move the platform and then
we can talk about what to do
with that plan case that's the progression
Josh's portion on my sword little mind
is putting my attention on his hand and trying to resist that
bid mind is putting might sure just happen to him
focus on his hand focus in the distance
my posture changed
everything changed okay
and I mean the distance don't think about them
try and ignore them and be out there
far out man distance as you can as far
into the floor as you can when I sync here
it's like my feeders set in cement four feet below the surface
missus way out there through that wall through the other walk out into space
see if you can get that you can get that you're gonna feel the change in higher
structure work
it you know how to do this already
me everybody take you right hand appointed no sense a
okay bill
months
point to Kisha morrow a ship so what just happened I gave 'em
something out there to think about so was mine
when out to the picture to show a ship
and then he physically expressed that
with his body now keep your mind out then pointed him
don't do anything else the same band
no if his legs aren't set up a ground path
I can still probably pushing over but this is not gonna back
his mind's out there and if you're having trouble with that you have a
complete failure to visualize and what's happening
is when they touch you your attention goes to the contact point you
you not able to keep it out there so you can see it's like
people are in look really good now looking on to get the distance look at
everything in the moment you touch the sword
their attention goes to the store there n Sheffield collapses
and now they're having to push against you his mind is
out there hate not bend the knees now it's the elbow
it has to extend to the floor extend out there just make people feel happy
collapsible
my backup at so happens Susie puts his mind back out there
expands in that space that's yet
that's the whole smear hey it's partially arms go anyway
then you gotta get down here
so that when you're pointing out there he starts pushing
me Josh can help push
have a ground path
want some things touching the ground I don't lose the ground packed
removed from the ground I can actually
go through them later
when you start getting some with this the other structural stuff you can start
doing weird stuff like
I have had both feet off the ground for a split second I didn't lose
I you know how to do this
which have to do it and you have to keep your focus if your focus is wobbly
your host pay if Josh comes up here
and I'm and then I think about that
push he's gonna take it the moment yes
like with I just put all my energy
right where the only place in room his strong no prisoner in his strong as far
as I'm concerned anyway
his way touches me that is
absolutely the last place I want to have my attention go has to be out there
I back there
up there out there around this not bad at all
then for the mental tension
bottom line is really fear inside something's going on
this creating that mental tension and that mental tension
always reflects in physical tension some places
anyway so is is this big system
it but but the fact of the matter is that you'd were not
studying how to unified mind body and spirit mind body and spirit are already
unified
so what your saying im in Phoenix its
already you can't they are not separate you cannot talk about them separately
they cannot be separated so what's our problem
we don't understand that and we act as if they're separate
so training is about developing the understanding
that they are unified not trying to unified
that makes any sense I so
let's take what we've been doing is we need to move along and go into movement
so John sense is given me a good connection you know sort
were still on the mechanics cited this you get to whack people tell
9:30 him K
sup I would Cup mean josh has a really good strong grip but just to be safe
Cup 1 over the tip just so there's no way to slip some hits
a because this is gonna start getting somewhat explosive
so I get here and I organize I expand
by push my car out should see that go right out to him
now if I have organized properly and here
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because the left I mean the right like extension
wired iPhone back which has left like so if I release one of them I move in that
direction
and there's no change if nothing else is happening
everything else is already there this extension this grounding
this intention out in the distance pick up the foot
pick up the foot moved from your car
do not think about pushing with your arms AP energy goes up when you try and
move
you on ground yourself a so
this right here this is exactly the same way he moved to punch
I this is actually all good punches
are dropping might see the point rise
but if you look with the bodies doing it's sinking you see that arc is
actually going that way by the time it hits
that's where your power comes as your body dropping into it
gravity is supplying most to that power I
whereas what most people do they thrust against gravity with their legs they
thrust
and they try and come out on the floor that way which is why
if you get out of the way sometimes they fall over is the ungrounded themselves
on their attacks
that's no good same thing here so
when you're doing this and practicing moving like this in releasing this
you are practicing how to patch
see double duty so
see if you can get this to pop out and
let me have a tip up a little higher that's why use that crap
yes and that one yes
I want that tip up and this down
see now right here release palm
so push push push push is pushing against me I'm gonna release
miss you I want that this is really powerful you wanna make sure you have
that cup holder
because even Josh
I'm overcoming his arm power with my my whole body power
so just be release a fun this I
there are there are people that you run into who are just pop
proud as can be that they can't be moved
am
and it may be useful in some art it's certainly not Ikea
pay like it is fundamentally about movement
it so what we have to do is
figure out how to take this centered ground path
I make it movable the secret to to
being centered is not being a movable it's that
they can't get you too disorganized your structure
so if you disorganized in your structure and somebody pushes you
you my head went yossi you'll see Aikido people when they see the energy coming
in they start doing this
leading the way is run through their bodies if he tipped me over
everything goes and they take my fall
I never release I try not to let him get
this kind of thing
so when Josh comes in here and pushes me
if he gets it everything just moves
and then change anything else so with the sword the same here so what we're
gonna do
is practice moving so
now josh is going to be pushing lightly
but he's not trying to overcome me and i wanna practice walking now
so the first step on the walk is this ship
just like rowing exercise because when I get here have a one-point base
see and I don't lose the ground path which allows me to move this foot
now I shift move this for and
if he feels me he should push me over or stop moving at least
so Ford pressure on I'm overcoming his Ford pressure
and I'm moving now
he keep pushing he's pushing push push push
keep pushing heat that pressure even no matter what I do
I should be able to move backwards without losing it to
lot of people get the forward down and then when they go to move backwards they
actually do this
they mean hey you should be able to move
any direction you want and never lose the ground
josh is pushing me I should be able to move to the side
should be able to move backwards without losing it she will move forward and come
out of the ground with power
hey to try this
the number one thing you see that's a problem
with people's come I
his way back I
so are would you come up with the short
hey so arts Kaman right now as a forward orientation I can feel that
so if I tried to crowd him he could spring right of that release them come
in
no mint so don't pick your arm when you do that
was a fine I'll give you the space you got a displacement
I in displacing and want to get into the technical part of that but you need to
take that line
there now put the weight back
made that's an expensive extreme example
but even just a little bit if you look at your partner and they
our way back move into the space they can't move in
just you don't need a technique
it's already over and you move in to take their space away because from here
you can't move forward
waits on your back foot member we were talking about
at the minimum weight being even 50/50
because then if I pick the food up whichever put put I picked up
is me the direction because I'm 50-50 what if the support isn't here on phone
for
I so if my weights back I can pick this up all their lot
which means that in order to move forward I had to shift my way so
I go in and fill that space he can shift his weight because that would be coming
on the mice order my puncher whatever
and these hoes yes to vacate you took the space away from
so just be aware that watch people watch yourself
so what's creating the pressure
not visible pressure mental pressure and Ford orientation in your body
which I can release or
if he's pushing here I can actually absorb without
having any problems I can rotate but
the way I would talk about the constant forward pressure is that
no matter where we're touching is always a touch to his center
even if I have turned seemingly away from him to
so-called blend with his power when I'm this way
my energy is not there my energies here
there's a backflow touch to his center so matter where we're going
there's always a touch to his center
the moment there's not he can let go and he's behind me
me now here
with this if he sees me back like this
and to right now
I'm I'm not falling over in one back because he's pushing down it's going
down into the floor
through this structure but guess what what happens if he
Anderson underneath this with this har I go up
so if I'm back like that he comes in underneath with this structure
even though this was going down it'll come back up to me
so if you look at your partner so I'm pushing
more less straight out from my Hara hey
see his way back be I would actually push them right now
is getting unstable that's better
so is wat still back but is more solid now
if I come in underneath him he goes up
now ship to a Ford and doing that
shifted in but I couldn't get underneath them because he's
out now K