Then one time
when I first started training with Tristan Sutrisno, I saw simple exercises he
was first shown as a boy when he was 4 in Indonesia by his father. In time I
realized they were not just a child’s exercises but were the basis for
extremely effective martial technique in their own right.
I came to see
such movements in a different way from the percussive manner of karate. To me
they became use of a shearing plane of force against an attacker.
Further study I
began to realize they were present in everything I studied. Where I studied tai
chi just to do tai chi, not for martial use, I came to realize these motions
were in tai chi.
They were in
karate. They were in karate.
When the eye
opened I saw they were present almost everywhere. But it is easy to define an
art from one perspective;.
An extremely
effective demonstration of how this can work can be seen here.
Or course this
does not explore all of the potential uses of the Shearing Plane of Force.
Addendum:
It is easy to define karate
for its use of percussive force. A strike or a kick delivered to a point.
Where it takes a more subtle
eye to understand how karate uses a shearing
plane of force. Examples can be found when
a side block is utilized as a plane of force to down an opponent. Or when the crescent
step can be used after every strike to shear down the opponent. The middle section
of Chinto can be used for it’s shearing planes of force, or the opening sections
of Kusanku can also be utilized to down an opponent.
Often using percussive force
and the shearing plane of force in conjunction with each other.
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