What disappeared from our culture and most martial arts, and what we are desperately trying to save in our dojos, is the connection to nature.
Nature begins with being outside, walking outside.
Many activities have become a gym activities, boxed existence. In ancient Japanese budo, pupils used to walk for days just to reach a teacher. The necessity of moving on foot, to this day, for many people. Walking outside is a part of the human heritage that is becoming a novelty. Just as we preserve ancient martial traditions we should preserve this outside backdrop. The outside was once ingrained in our lives and so taken for granted, now we make the effort, even if it is on a hot summer day. So on many levels, just being outside, moving outside, without vehicles should be top priority because of mental health, physical health, martial abilities and ethics of mutual interdependence. So on many levels, just being outside, moving outside, without vehicles, or air condition, should be top priority because of mental health, physical health, martial abilities and ethics of mutual interdependence.
I will give a name for this treatment, I call it: “Respect”. Respect like this is the un-necessary, the un-reasonable, the un-expected respect and thus – a rare commodity.
Usually respect is directed to another human being as an expression of hierarchy and that person’s social status. But there is another form of respect. In the old school regime, respect is expressed also to a technique, an object, to a way of life. Through the observation and the action one can practice respect to movement, to someone, to something.
This week we will be training outside on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem groups. Hakama, battle skirt is only needed on the weapon classes. On other sessions, please bring punching equipment, water and extreme fitness.
We will be continuing our two months long exploration into ׳Mindless Mindfulness™ as means of augmenting kata into randori level using dyads and triads Q&A.
Please bring: Water, punching gloves, extreme fitness.
Video of hierarchies of order and chaos in practice
This week we will continue to hone our techniques. The Jerusalem group will be training in the Supreme court rose garden. The Tel Aviv and Ramat Hasharon groups move into grappling attire: Gi pants and a tee shirt.
Over the last two months we have been working on fixing one of the main problems of applying the Methodical Pyramid in Ninjutsu, between the Kata and the Randori levels. I think we have exceptional results.
We will continue in this direction this week integrating knees and Kata Guruma.
After several intense weeks of applying Jumonji with the Methodical pyramid we are ready to expand our vocabulary to other stances beginning with Hoko No Kamae.
Boxing gloves are essential and we will need extreme fitness too.
This week we will continue and work the inside range with Juji and Hoko no kamae. The Jerusalem dojo will introduce kicks to the katas, the other dojos will hone drill number 4.
A Detant emotional regulation seminar (phase 2-3) opens up this Friday, 9.6.2017, 08:00 sharp. The seminar is open to AKBAN practitioners.
Link for registration, here.
During the week we will hone the ‘Kosa Shita te’ hand work and combine it with Ninjutsu kicks.
For those who participated in the AKBAN Knife masters seminar, there are few places left for this Friday. Please make sure you register online. Do not bring live weapons.
At Tuesday, eve of the holiday, and Wednesday, Shavuot Holiday, the dojo is closed.
During the sessions on Sunday, Monday and Thursday we will start, in addition to the new syllabus, ground work from Shinden Fudo Ryu.
This Friday, 26.5, A Rokushaku bo Kukishin kata. Wait for an update on the group’s Whatsapp on Thursday.
During the week we will repeat five reactions from rear hand wing block and three from front hand wing block. These eight reactions depict an activity range of 180 degrees which we will augment with straight strikes syncopations. In addition we will continue learning closing gap with Jumonji, at second timing, of drill 4.
Apologies, we are so deep into this new material that this won’t make sense to those who missed last month. I have not yet videoed the techniques of this segment.
