This Friday there will not be Rokushaku Bo session.
During the week we will hone the techniques from previous week’s sessions. We will enter drills number 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3 from an opponent’s attack and finish with advanced variations of kata Guruma.
The first is that the individual forming part of a crowd acquires, solely from numerical considerations, a sentiment of invincible power which allows him to yield to instincts which, had he been alone, he would perforce have kept under restraint.
He will be the less disposed to check himself from the consideration that, a crowd being anonymous, and in consequence irresponsible, the sentiment of responsibility which always controls individuals disappears entirely.
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The Friday morning group learned the opening bow kata and the first Rokushaku Bo (long stick) kata. Next Friday we will learn the second kata and repeat the techniques we learned.
During the week some of the groups will learn advanced multiple opponent scenarios while some will repeat the Fudo Ryu throws.
If you want to be in charge of your machines, you have to learn to write code.
This week I will only teach in Jerusalem, Sunday, and Tel Aviv, Thursday.
I will not be present at the other sessions because of the Detant seminar for rescue and emergency situations that will take place at Rescue-1. Experts and team leaders from Japan and Israel will participate and my Detant teaching duties will prevent regular teaching in AKBAN.
AKBAN instructors will teach in my stead.
At Friday, 08:00, I will teach Rokshaku Bo in Tel Aviv Honbu dojo.
Every single step is a Dojo
From The Collected sayings of Zhaozhou Congshen. Translated to Hebrew in “Empty Handed I Returned Home, A selection from Zenrin-Kushū” by Eitan Bolokan and Dror Burstein
מתוך אסופת דבריו של המורה ג׳אוג׳ו (ג׳ושו) תרגום לעברית מתוך ״בידיים ריקות שבתי הביתה – פסוקי זן״ איתן בולוקן ודרור בורשטיין
This Friday we will start work on Bo in honbu dojo Tel Aviv. After the session we will practice haka.
During the week we will continue working on timings 4-5, from Kata to randori.
It is crucial to see both sides without moving the eyes. Learning this skill takes time. Learn what is written here; use this way of looking in everyday life and do not vary it whatever happens.
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From the Book of Five rings, Miyamoto Musashi
Thanks to Guy R. for the quote from Japanese
