Friday 30 May 2014

Resetting the Operating System

I understand recently that we as humans grow up and develop a body consciousness a template or model which we become familiar with. I realised that for my beginning years in Aunkai training I was trying to overlay Aunkai principles and train movements on top of a mind body template that was wrong. So no matter what things I learned or tried to learn the underlying operating system was wrong so none of the applications worked. Now I have reset my operating system and continue to reset and refine it and now the applications are working better. This is easy to read about and conceptually understand but the body mind or body conscious or operating system is hidden under many layers of the mind and already feels natural and is difficult to access and to be aware of. This is I believe is a very important and difficult part of bujutsu.

Sunday 4 May 2014

Cambodia Training

I have been on my honeymoon in Cambodia for the past week. Have been training every morning on the beach one be sand. The soft sand and bare feet give a new dimension to the feeling and external and internal balance. I have spent the last couple of days on working on dropping the Juji point in the thorax down internally to connect and hook it up to the spine. This loads more and more weight into the legs and makes the top half of the body light.
Cambodia is a beautiful place and it great to train in front of the ocean with the sand under my feet and ocean breeze on my face.