Post by mat on Aug 2, 2006 2:36:20 GMT 8
Posted by Colin Wee on Jul 23, 2006, 4:56pm
I have experienced this phenomenon of being aware of the technique before it has been launched not just a few but many times. I would be very interested to understand what kind of system he uses to help the practitioner link such training to kata. In my knowledge, I have never seen Ki/Chi used in this way before or at this speed. Colin
I have just finished reading the first of two books I have ordered by the same author. It's basically a research on chi. What it is, where it comes from, etc. He never once talks about how to devellop it. It's a 200 pages introduction. Very interesting. He mentions that lots of his notions come from Kendo and ChiGong. Seme, Chi and another term I forgot.
I'm just starting the second book that's called "chi in budo" researching chi in combat.
I just started it, but basically, practicionners talk about seeing "hues" of light before the move starts. Or blurry things. Something like that. He talks about different ChiGong practices, breathing, relaxation and other stuff.
I'm a bit skeptic about that second book, as he starts by saying that he practiced four years with someone who was an auto-didact in chi Gong and after the four years, he started to have diminished eyesight and felt "tremors" in the ground. Which are supposed to be side-effect of a bad chiGong practice. He also mentions that he stopped hitting all sorts of makiwara and then started to hurt in his wrists. Because the blocked chi was making it's way back in his hands.
This man is often called to do many seminars in china and Japan. He basically lives with his practice. He is often referred to has someone who seeks true budo and stuff like that.
I haven't finished the article I'm working on. In fact, I haven't worked on it since last time. But all in all, I would be very curious to see him in action. It's an interesting venue. Far from magic or Mumbo Jumbo I've already heard about or read or saw.
Three things I know for sure :
1- I am currently trying chigong. Although I must be ages from feeling whatever part of feeling he's talking about, I must say that I do have strange feelings in my hands. I don't know yet if those feelings are imposed, self-imposed or genuine. I still have to discover.
2- The way he forms his fist when striking is different from what I have seen in karate and in Tae Kwon Do. I don't know the physics behind it, but when I hit someone with that fist formed, it produces a harder hit. Felt "deeper" When I get hit, it does the same thing.
3- Since reading and applying what I can from my readings, my tsuki is much more efficient. I've learned more in those books than in a lot of years of practice. Maybe I'm a slow learner, maybe those concepts are already assimilated by you guys. I don't know.
As promised, I'll post more about those two books when I finish them.
Cheers!
I have experienced this phenomenon of being aware of the technique before it has been launched not just a few but many times. I would be very interested to understand what kind of system he uses to help the practitioner link such training to kata. In my knowledge, I have never seen Ki/Chi used in this way before or at this speed. Colin
I have just finished reading the first of two books I have ordered by the same author. It's basically a research on chi. What it is, where it comes from, etc. He never once talks about how to devellop it. It's a 200 pages introduction. Very interesting. He mentions that lots of his notions come from Kendo and ChiGong. Seme, Chi and another term I forgot.
I'm just starting the second book that's called "chi in budo" researching chi in combat.
I just started it, but basically, practicionners talk about seeing "hues" of light before the move starts. Or blurry things. Something like that. He talks about different ChiGong practices, breathing, relaxation and other stuff.
I'm a bit skeptic about that second book, as he starts by saying that he practiced four years with someone who was an auto-didact in chi Gong and after the four years, he started to have diminished eyesight and felt "tremors" in the ground. Which are supposed to be side-effect of a bad chiGong practice. He also mentions that he stopped hitting all sorts of makiwara and then started to hurt in his wrists. Because the blocked chi was making it's way back in his hands.
This man is often called to do many seminars in china and Japan. He basically lives with his practice. He is often referred to has someone who seeks true budo and stuff like that.
I haven't finished the article I'm working on. In fact, I haven't worked on it since last time. But all in all, I would be very curious to see him in action. It's an interesting venue. Far from magic or Mumbo Jumbo I've already heard about or read or saw.
Three things I know for sure :
1- I am currently trying chigong. Although I must be ages from feeling whatever part of feeling he's talking about, I must say that I do have strange feelings in my hands. I don't know yet if those feelings are imposed, self-imposed or genuine. I still have to discover.
2- The way he forms his fist when striking is different from what I have seen in karate and in Tae Kwon Do. I don't know the physics behind it, but when I hit someone with that fist formed, it produces a harder hit. Felt "deeper" When I get hit, it does the same thing.
3- Since reading and applying what I can from my readings, my tsuki is much more efficient. I've learned more in those books than in a lot of years of practice. Maybe I'm a slow learner, maybe those concepts are already assimilated by you guys. I don't know.
As promised, I'll post more about those two books when I finish them.
Cheers!