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by kyudo
Sun Feb 10, 2013 10:16 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

Bob, Reg, Tom, thanks for your valuable comments. Yes, Bob, you're right. Kihon should come first. I realize now that my point is more about learning methods and transmitting knowledge than it is about internal power. So perhaps this discussion should be moved to another thread, but I'll leave that ...
by kyudo
Sat Feb 09, 2013 6:58 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

Is it worth trying to pass on a clone though? Hardly, I would say. But passing on information to students doesn't necessarily constitute cloning... Or is the value in the transmission of a continual probing mind and constant acceptance of not having "it" and so to always seek it? I certai...
by kyudo
Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:13 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

At the end of the day you have to be able to destroy people otherwise what's the point? As far as I'm concerned there is no point. Wado is useless for most part. Just like a painting of Van Gogh is useless. It's even too small to use as wallpaper, so what's the point? However, even though Wado is u...
by kyudo
Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:14 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

I am getting older by the minute here... Can you please clarify why a black or white dogi is a 'digital experience' but not a grey dogi... or a red or blue dogi for that matter... and how a digital experience relates to internal power? D'you see 'internal power' as being a digital experience for in...
by kyudo
Fri Feb 08, 2013 9:51 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

So to answer Igor's earlier query...the people that can really do it does not seem to want to teach it....at least to outsiders.... Come to think of it perhaps he chose to hit me for the same reason. He was not about to hit the Finn. He has no desire to show an outsider what it feels like to get hi...
by kyudo
Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:56 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

Once in a while I come across an interesting essay. Here is one from Ellis Amdur. I will just post the link. http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showthread.php?p=321942#post321942 ! Thanks for posting. Ellis Amdur wrote 'Hidden in plain sight' about supposedly lost internal strength techniques that are i...
by kyudo
Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:47 am
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Internal Power
Replies: 174
Views: 178946

Re: Internal Power

Imagine a bar with a fulcum on it. It is centered. So it is balanced. Now you place 5 llbs on either end. It is still balanced. Now instead of placing the weights on either end you place two machines back to back in the middle. Both machines can project weighted energy. (This is an imaginary device...
by kyudo
Sat Jan 12, 2013 4:38 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Which is/are your favourite Kata?
Replies: 45
Views: 51285

Re: Which is/are your favourite Kata?

Gusei21 wrote: But I am talking about BALANCE, not balance. :)
I remember my sensei explaining 'stable instability' in kata Naihanchi. Another interesting way to refer to -probably- the same concept.
by kyudo
Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:46 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Motobu Udundi
Replies: 1
Views: 7239

Motobu Udundi

Kumite gata 36 to 42: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geca-mAs4Kg Just kidding, off course. But, is it me or is there a striking resemblance with kumite gata? Irimi, meotode and kuzushi all over the place. And that is most intriguing, considering this comes from a lineage that couldn't be more differ...
by kyudo
Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:51 pm
Forum: Wado Talk
Topic: Moving up in ranks
Replies: 40
Views: 54787

Re: Moving up in ranks

Bob, I don't think my view on belts and ranking is the result of spending time in a particular bubble. It's probably the other way round: I wound up in a bubble because I tend to have my own particular view on things. In any case, I learned along the way that spending too much time in a bubble is co...