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Deflection and then the tsuki...
That's in the most basic version, then eventually
it starts to become... It's not a deflection,
the tsuki is just strike, and he has to move more flowing. Once they understand about this deflection
what they do is they wait, so they can deflect
Well, this is like what we were talking about the other day with this...
If it's a block, its only because I wasn't fast enough to cut you.
So what we're going to do here
Tracy's going to attack me... and I'm going to
Now you notice...
Gosh, that really wasn't a deflection.
OK? I don't
want it to be a deflection. If he's faster
it may be a deflection. But what I am doing is cutting him. If you are going to cut somebody from here,
you cannot do it in a two beat move. Everybody does that...
You watch... you want to do that,
start here... You can skip all that part.
It has to be cutting now... one motion.
It's not one, then start the cut. That's just as bad as
one, then you start the tsuki. That's almost the same problem. Okay?
So here's my gauge... if he's faster
and I do this, it'll be a nice deflection.
But I'm not trying to make it
that. I'm just cutting... we'll see how... We were working yesterday on how fast can he do that?
Well now... how fast can I do mine?
You're pulling your strike.
It's a
feeling... I just relax and I'm just sitting here,
and I'm waiting for my mind to say "now".
And I couldn't tell you exactly what I felt. Now sometimes I see it...
Sometimes I see the "telegraph" or whatever...
But other times, it's just like my brain just says "now"
and I go. Don't second guess yourself! if
the mind says go, go! And
what's interesting is, typically what happens is
people will do that and then it turns out well,
he didn't actually raise his sword at that point and I go
"Oh, I was wrong... I thought he was going, but he wasn't."
What Musashi says is "Do not do that to yourself...
Trust the message.
He said you have no idea what this guy is doing... Now at a certain point, when you start to
really trust it, you start to realize," I felt it"...
He's just slow. You know?
He he has a disconnect between when he said
"I should go now" and when his body started moving. It wasn't that I was wrong...
Ok? But if he is that slow, it changes... its like he's supposed to be initiating... Well,
he did initiate because he thought about attacking... in that sense.
But I moved first. When I'm standing here, I have already cut him in my mind.
My sword is already on his center and the
only thing I haven't done yet is release it
physically. So when I go "Now"!
I'm moving... there's no time lag. Everything else was already flowing...
I'm not in "neutral", ok?
We're ready to go.
I was saying to these guys... You're just like the guy at the drag race,
who thinks that, as that light goes down towards green,
he can have the car in neutral, and then when it hits green. then he'll put it in gear
and go.
The other guys down there by now if you're doing that.
If I have my sword there and he's just done the lift,
I probably felt him decide.
Because that's how I could be in that fast. AI have to go all the way from here,
all the way to here. If I get in in the time it takes him to do this...
I was moving... I started moving when he thought about it attacking.
It's a game for us. We really have don't have competition,
no tournaments, or anything else... but this kind of competition,
we both grow. Ok? This is
cooperative, in the sense that we're setting up something
very simple. His job is one thing... my job is one thing...
Very simple. Not sparring, not crazy. That keeps it...
the ability to make it feel relatively safe... You should be able to do this, and stay
relatively relaxed,
because it's not chaotic. You know, if you want to
learn these principles by sparring, I don't think you will.
Once through slow...
no break in the rhythm... That's why you have to be relaxed because otherwise you
can't make that adjustment. Very difficult, if not impossible,
to feel the difference between him
making the decision to go, or him
not quite being present, so I get that message
now. In the old days...