Certainly now in my decline, my many
disabilities I have been experiencing this past decade have left most of the
abilities I worked on for over 30+ years absent from my current state. O I
still practice as I can but very little of it resembles anything martial.
At the same time with so much time on my
hands and I find myself turning to the variety of prior martial discussions
that I participated on the internet to keep finding material from so long ago
that almost no one really seems to talk about anymore. I was interested in
almost anything meaning much in addition to my Isshinryu studies. So as I keep
finding more and more I am selecting so much to add to my blog.
Now these days the only real activity I have
is my participating in the Sun City West Lapidary Club.
Lapidary in an activity that takes rock and
appropriately Slices it. Cuts it. Grinds it at various grades, Fine grinds the
rock, Polishes the rock and applies Wax to the rock. The finished rock might be
used for jewelry, to manufacture many things, or as I do just to sit on my
dest.
At this time I have 4 years of effort and over 400 rock pieces I
have worked on. From my beginning I was told you have no idea what is inside
any rock until you open it up and then
work on it. Some rock has next to no value, others provide wonder. Only from
your effort can you decide what is inside and only from your effort can you
many anything of it.
Now that I think of it I did the same thing
from my efforts in Isshinryu and all the martial studies and research I did.
You take a raw student, slowly develop their
potential to allow them to develop their abilities to really advance in their
art. What you can develop has so little to do with you, but to share some of
what you can do, then see if they make the effort to move forward on their own.
All I can do with my blog is point the way
and perhaps others to polish what I see in their own brilliance.
Many of my personal interests in the older
traditions that grew into karate with so many different branches are me but
working on the same path myself.
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