Knee In ?

 

Mick Powell is with Mark D Bishop.

October 9, 2017 ·

In one of the groups the ashi te and ashi sabaki was shared to I saw a genuine question regarding the knee lifting. As I won't join these groups due in part to a small minority of idiotic and disrespectful commenting that would prove just to tempting not to back reply too until they became trapped by their very own words....time really for me is spent better else where in actual training teaching treating and tantalizing research.

 

The 'knee lift' has multiple reasoning. To give just 3 (or4), in the article I write " The knee lifts are kinda like putting the brakes on from horizontal to vertical, especially as speed increases. As well as can be used for ’striking’ ". Mark shows how else it is used as a basic te extension, 'protect and enter'. Mark really is adept at trapping feet while grappling so when you see me pulling my knee up and foot right back in solo demos, that is my training attempt NOT to have my foot trapped when with Mark especially. Te has many useful training methods and principles that seamlessly cross links across the full spectrum of integrated comprehensiveness.

 

This is a small section from a 45+min recording we did in South West France in early 2011, filmed on my camera by Moya Fortune. The recording was titled "Udun-di (Okinawan Te) Advanced Techniques & Principles Illustrated and Explained with Meditational Footwork".....unfortunately the wind noise in the outside training place was at times is a bit distracting (on the recording) and hard to hear the important points being made.

 

To possibly pre-empt that small minority....yes the 'big geezer' is demonstrating on a 'litter geezer', but this 'little geezer' is on literally hundreds of recordings demonstrating, competing against and training with all shapes and sizes (97.5% larger than him) over a 35 year period and it should further be noted Mark is in his early mid 60's here and none of the 3 'attacks' were pre arranged or pre determined and if i had come in any harder or faster it becomes increasingly more difficult to 'control' the 'attacker' without potential injury to them. Finally it would not have mattered my 'attack' as the footwork and the sequence of avoid/disorientate/grapple/take charge/throw (or take down) was adhered to and that is THE TRAINING SEQUENCE - (minus) pre-emption