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Wauke can stop muay thai hand fighting, especially when the Wauke are done literally.
Unrelated to the IUPA, but I’ve learned for grappling, ‘sinching'(Like globbing but with a mechanical adjustment) solves a lot of problems in connection.
And when on the ground the principle of ‘higher man wins’ even on bottom is important to get back up and not be trapped or pinned.
Good stuff.
This concept also makes me realize I’ve been looking at Rick Bottomly’s ‘breaking the distance’ all wrong.
I would always try to clear as much space as possible with a single bound, and then rick would correct me.
But I realize looking at this, that the goal of breaking the distance is not getting much ground covered in a single bound, but to create steps, whether one, two or three that have elasticity, which is more reliable to break the distance than a single big ‘forced’ bound.
Rather multiple closes allowed to happen instead of being ‘done’ work better.
ANd the path to this is the release of the muscles.
The balance drill can be fun if it progresses into movement.
Ideally, one should do the ‘still’ drill as long as possible, but for those with short attention span, they should make deals with themselves to do the stationary balance drill for a certain period of time, then start with moving ki kung or drills, then kata.
But I think it’s important to emphasize that one should not move onto moving or ‘exciting’ drills without first touching on the stationary drill, because otherwise, movement is wasted and purposeless.
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It’s very easy to miss what a release really is because it isn’t a technique and isn’t easily seen.
I know this is not how people define ‘internal’ and ‘external’ martial arts.
But to me, what we do is something that cannot be visibly seen or easily observed, to me that is real ‘internal’ martial arts.
If what we do isn’t internal, then maybe it’s invisible karate. Just like Rickson Gracie coined the term ‘invisible’ Jui-Jitsu, which means you do no technique any different from anyone else as a master, but the mechanics involved are not easily observed, hence his term ‘invisible’ jiu jitsu.
I believe what we practice, such as the release above is ‘invisible’ karate.
And that’s the frustrating part because it’s invisible, it needs to be felt.
So i can see people, even experienced martial artists, watch the videos on release, and just look at it as a pivoting of the feet, rather than the ‘release’ of muscles and tendons to create a charge or a drop to generate movement.
I honestly think though, the principles of body subtle, invisible, dare I say “internal’ body mechanics being unviolated is what causes alot of the ‘rules’ they break in the video to work.
They wonder why some people can do xyz that is wrong, but others can’t.
I’m learning more and more it’s either the ability to do footwork or the body mechanics that are often invisible or subtle to the eye.
I would however challenge the opening scene of this video.
“Oh why is this not crossing the feet but this?”
Yet in taiji we learn to cross our feet, yet it’s within a synergy of body alignment, you can explode in any direction from it.
The reason people say not to cross the feet is because most people don’t have that alignment in such awkward places, and thus the body is unaligned.
Let me know if you hack using this when your back is facing the ground IE guard or being on the bottom of side control.
Because I think this would help me a great deal on the ground.
Watched the first few, will finisht he rest tmrw and practice it tmrw.
As I said in Instant Messenger, this is gold.
To me they are the most basic ways to talk about how the body works together, but not just the body working together.
If you study even deeper than the harmonies, you get concepts like concentric expansions and the 9 pearls and all that.
IN truth, the 6 harmonies are the beginning method to see the gears of how to sync up movement and total body awareness.
It’s both a rudimentary concept but also very deep.
Yeah, and where Sanchin is unique to Uechi-Ryu, GOju-Ryu and some other Okinawan styles and chinese styles, Cat stance is pretty much everywhere in Asia.
Muay thai guys will sit in it as a defensive stance at times.
For their error in describing the harmonies:
I noticed the way they are often described is nebulous, most people think of it as a way to sync up the body and examine it no further.
The more one thinks about the six harmonies, the more you realize there is far more to it than simply “Match parts up”
As you pointed out, very much there is an ‘order’ to the harmonies often not even considered.
