Realization of
application potential is not often a straight forward process. It happens often
when you least expect it.
I made it a
practice of dropping into a large nearby dojo once a year and sharing with the
students there. Not the Isshinryu I was teaching, but as I had studied a wide
number of disciplines technique studies I found interesting an thought they
might find them interesting too.
Not Isshinryu,
for one reason it was to intensely personal a study for me. And the manner in
which I instructed did not lend itself to instant instruction.
I wasn’t playing
games and I was interested in maintain friendly relations with other schools.
But it also gave
me a chance to work with others who did not know me and prove to myself that those
techniques worked to.
So this time I
started showing a rather basic tjimande method to put an attacker down on the
ground. The class had about 30 dan’s in it, and I selected the largest to first
work with.
I showed what I
was going to do in detail, nothing hidden. Then I took my partner and told him
to step in and strike strongly. As he did so I light parried his attack at the
wrist, and at the same time lay my other arm across his biceps. This was as I
was stepping forward.
Then my other
leg stepped behind, I grasped his deflected wrist and the other arm lightly
pressed down. The attacker spiraled down ending up on the floor on his back.
Of course I had
been taught by Tristan Sutrisno that his father did the same thing. Take the
largest person attending and do them first, everyone else sees them go down and
their minds move onto acceptance the technique works, even on them.
After putting
their biggest student on the ground, I then asked who else would like to
experience this.
All them formed
a line, all 29 of them. One after another they attacked, and one after another
I put them on the floor, spiraling all of them down.
Which was pretty
neat in itself having the floor filled with downed black belts.
After some
recovery time for myself, and practice for them, I decided to show another
technique.
I had a student
stand in front of me, then step in and strike toward me.
Then it came to
me. I just step a bit to the left, and separated both hands just like in
SunNuSu or Patsai. The left knife hand lightly parrying the strike on the
forearm as the right knife hand makes a reciprocal motion the other direction..
Then I turned to
the left The right palm deflection lightly pressing down and drawing the
opponents center of gravity toward that touch, leading their mind and their
balance to that point. As you turn the
right knife hand lightly slices into their neck as you turn.
And at that time
your left hand drops to your left chamber, the right open hand slices across
their neck and then strikes down to the left, the same motion as in the kata.
That motion combines to make the attacker move down.
The deflection
move of their center to the point where they were touched, unbalanced them to
make the light slicing motion across their neck and then press downward work
together to become a takedown (throw),
You can further
enhance this by taking your left foot and 1) stepping on their left foot or, 2)
stepping behind their lead foot. Either use will make another force enhancer to
the throw. Use of don’t use.
The relevance of
this technique was not realized by those at that sharing, It was just another
technique to them. I did not explain where the movement being used came from.
Another thing I
had learned from Tristan Sutrisnos father’s lessons.
As presented the students likely would not retain it, not that what was happening was not fully explained, just it was unlikely to be part of their instructors curriculum. Thus falling under what he referred to as the technique of no technique.
Technique of No
Technique
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