Filmed in 1988
Chosen No Kama Dai as taught to me in 1980
by Tristan Sutrisno
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFoAtSo1AA
The competition form Chi Ying Jow Yang Chaun Fa
built by Ernest Rothrock and me in 1979
to compete in competition for fun.
It's movements came from the Yang 108 I had studied with him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JxoejrjoY
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I have had so many people influence me as to what my art should become. Back as a new black belt I began training with Ernest Rothrock in Tai Chi Chaun.
The complete form, Yang 108, consists of 6 rows of techniques.
Then I learnt the basic movements of the first form,
I had to learn the 1st section a second time, This time I had to do the movements learning to allow my eyes to focus on a moving point keeping in front of the hand movements, this was quite difficult as the head kept rolling to allow the eyes to follow that point. That also caused you to begin to lose your balance as normally not moving the head allows your eyes to maintain your balance. It took time to find your inner balance no longer using your eyes.
Then I had to learn the 1st section a third time. This time learning the breathing pattern used with the form. Again quite difficult for you can’t use hearing which is another aid for keeping balance. Eventually you begin to find your inner balance.
Only at that point were you ready to learn the sections 2 – 6, always keeping the eye movements and the breathing with the new section.
The truth is my being an Isshinryu black belt did not help me at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52JxoejrjoY
One of the early times in 1980 when I began to visit Tristan Sutrisno he was teaching his 2 senior brown belts the form Chosen No Kama Sho. And because I was there he had me join in on the instruction.
The next time I was there he was teaching them Chosen No Kama Dai and again he had me join in on the instruction. That form followed pretty much the same embusen of the Sho version, with just some more complicated kama passes.
I never really had another lesson, just those 2 times.
Then it was time to get to work. And that I did for years. At that time just for me.
Around 1993 on a visit to me at the tail end of the visit he began to show me a different pass for the Dai version. That about was all I was shown.
I do know there was a Chosen No Kama San version for he once competed with it. It contained jumping turning kicks done with sai movement but I never learned that version.
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