What happens when you start training in a koryu art?

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Re: What happens when you start training in a koryu art?

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I will start a new thread on Kote Gaeshi as it will be worthy of its own life.
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Re: What happens when you start training in a koryu art?

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oneya wrote:Hi AJ,

my question was more to the recognition of where, in the wado ryu system does the concept of body memory encounter anything like an initial kote gaeshi movement. I think it is there if we look for it in the process.

A long and current thread on the previous forum expressed our collective lament of the tiresome outpourings of the 'mixing is superior' to tradition people. A few battles with proponents of this ‘mixing’ view have been fruitless because they already know what they know even with meagre wado-ryu experience or knowledge. So it is a layman’s view that has its benefits because it reminds us – or at least, it reminds me – that we need to constantly review and revise our own understanding of the wado-ryu. Not only because I have regularly maintained that everything we do in wado ryu is nicely packed within its fundamental system as we know it, but more than this is its process is a continuously didactic experience where signposts need to be recognised along the way in its kihon, kata and kumite concepts, quite often by reflection and kaisetsu analysis, but more often in its eureka moments in the physical process of conflict. Kote Gaeshi is one such where we need to be open to the signs.

You will remember we once spoke of needing new eyes for Naihanchi kata because Pinan eyes were not altogether applicable. Again the Pinan kata processes are incremental so each one would teach something differently that we will find again at a later time in our practice. Just like the man said, ‘there are no secrets there is only training’ and the rest of this needs a dojo for training and some clarity.

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thanks for eleborating oneya
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