I
had begun training with Tristan Sutrisno about 1980 . We had met several years earlier competing against each other at
tournaments. I took him up on his invitation to visit him and he had me jump
into his class to train.
I
trained in many practices I had never seen, and after each monthly visit I
would make notes to remember what I had been shown, realizing that these were
one time events and wanting to retain as much as possible.
I
remember after a while he was teaching his brown belts a new kata, the Kama
kata Chosen No Kama Sho. He had me join in that training. Of course I
kept notes to remember it. The following visit he was showing them the 2nd
kata in that chain,. that of Chosen No
Kama Dai. That form was extremely close to the first kama kata, but the
technique execution was quite different. Thus another thing that would be one off to
remember.
That
was all the instruction I was to receive.
Of course I practiced those two kata forever.
A
few years later he competed at a tournament in Pennsylvania I was not able to
attend. His kobudo kata was Chosen No Kama Dai-Ichi. I gather it
was vastly more advanced but retained most of the original embusen of the
series of kama kata. I recall he won first place in that competition. I never
saw the form.
When
I moved to New Hampshire in 1985, Tristan would pay my visits to give clinics
for my students and I. He also sent me a
video of a Christmas Demonstration his students gave, and on it his student Ed
Summers did the Chosen No Kama Dai kata.
Chosen
no Kama Dai performed by his student Ed Summers about 1985
Then
in the later 1980s Tristan was giving another clinic for my students and that
time one time he decided to work with me on kama. There he showed me different ways to execute
kama technique in the form.
Tristan
working on Chosen No Kama Dai in my backyard in Derry about 1988
For
me personally it was always difficult, the continual shifts between open
handling of the kama to closed handling of the kata then back to open kama
proved to be most challenging. And as I aged it became more difficult, perhaps
an early indication of my disability that was to come.
I was shown
the Chosen No Kama Sho and Dai kata
In 1980 on
several of my first visits to Tris’ dojo.
The standard
in the Sutrisno dojo is that both kama kata
Used the same
embusen.
The handling
of the kama was more advanced in the Dai version.
Chosen No Kama Dai ( version
1) 1988 and 1st row of the Yang Tai Chi Chaun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3eyzhcInOE
Kama Sho
pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRmpYtUYI-k
Kama
Dai pass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka_FvtCDLdI
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