The past few weeks I have been without much PC access to the internet. We moved from New Hampshire, USA to Buckeye, Arizona USA.
We spent 4 days of continuous driving to cover more than 2,800 miles for the move. The container with our belongings arrived that Friday and we have since set up our house.
The community in which I live is surrounded outside by Arizona dessert, with many cacti. I was surprised at how much green was outside in Arizona. The average temperature during the last two weeks has been 108f.
Here are a few photos I have taken during my daily walks.
I am now back with internet access, there were several cables that got lost in the move.
To start with I am using a variation
of a multiple striking drill I developed.
These drills are not intended to be
realistic fighting combinations, rather training tools to allow us to
understand how one movement can turn into a double of a triple strike.Each strike is done asreal strike with power, but another strike
flows from the original. Originally I learned this which I believe may have
been an Indonesian principle applied to Shotokan training.
Then after several decades of
practice (and application use) I began to develop an Isshinryu version and
others. But there are always other potentials,
I have been fooling with these for a
while.More possibilities and the
training to realize their use. This is the basic series I developed.
Taking the open hand multiple
striking drill I developed and thinking about variations on the drill.
1.
Right spear hand strike to the solar plexus.
2.
Right back hand strike to the point between the eyes.
3.
Right descending knife hand strike on the inside of a striking arm.
4.
Right ascending base of thumb strike into the right side of the opponents neck.
5.
Right knife hand strike circles over the attacker’s head and strikes the knife
hand into left side of the opponents neck.
Or
1. Right spear hand
strike to the solar plexus.
2.
Right back hand strike to the point between the eyes.
3.
Right descending knife hand strike on the inside of a striking arm.
4.
Right ascending base of thumb strike into the right side of the opponents neck.
5.
Right ridge hand strike circles in front of the attacker’s head and strikes the
thumb side of the ridge hand into left side of the opponents neck.
Or
1. Right spear hand
strike to the solar plexus.
2.
Right back hand strike to the point between the eyes.
3.
Right descending knife hand strike on the inside of a striking arm.
4.
Right ascending knife hand strike into the right side of the opponents neck.
5.
Right ridge hand strike circles in front of the attacker’s head and strikes the
thumb side of the ridge hand into left side of the opponents neck.
Or
1. Right spear hand
strike to the solar plexus.
2.
Right back hand strike to the point between the eyes.
3.
Right descending knife hand strike on the inside of a striking arm.
4.
Right ascending knife hand strike into the right side of the opponents neck.
5. Right knife hand
strike circles over the attacker’s head and strikes the knife hand into left
side of the opponents neck.
There are so many other variations.
One strike might do what is necessary. This just offers the possibility that
one strike can be two strikes, etc.
Multiple Striking, layered striking
amd other possibilities.
In several days I will be
moving to Buckeye, Arizona. New home, new life options. For a brief while the
blog will be dormant, but like the Phoenix (pun intended) I shall arise again.
Allow me to offer a transient thought.
There is much thought
put into the arts being classified, Internal or Externa. Or whether they are
Hard or Soft.
Having practiced Karate
and Yang Tai Chi for many years, I would like to offer an observation.
I don’t see
internal or external, just a totality most do not attempt to find. Neither Hard or Soft, totality. The internal should drive
the external without distinction to distract our action.
Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not!
The pod with our belongings moves out
today. We will be following in a week. It will have to be a quick trip, 4 of 4 ½
days at most, covering several thousand miles over the trip.
That and accepting the disabilities I
am dealing with makes decisions necessary.
1. Most of the Kobudo I
have studied and practice is beyond my capabilities.
2. I will no longer be instructing others.
3, There are limits to
the amount of things I can drag along with me.
4. The majority of my
personal kobudo gear had been bequeathed to Mike Cassidy to use with the
program as he sees fit. Other students
have been given other of my weapons. Hardest to put down were my bo’s and sai.
Sai being where my studies began with Charles Murray.
5. I have retained a
few things.
a. My knife collection goes with me. This also includes my
hand made Tecchu/Teko group. A single Tecchu/Teko will travel with me as well
as several small pocket knives.
b. My Tai Chi straight sword goes with me. Perhaps the most
difficult practice, with the many turns involved, but still I try.
c. The Mangi Sai Charles brought back from Okinawa is with
me.
d. The patterned rattan staff Cindy Robinson brought me
from Seattle.
e. A single wooden kama, created by a friend.
The Sai to hang on the
wall, my strength precludes any sai practice. The other weapons to use as I am
able.
My studies continue as
will whatever practice I can do. An example is I can see how to modify the kama
practice I created to a single kama and stick form. Something new. Various knife drills and several kata done
with tecchu/teko.
