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Looking at it I think the only way to organize it is detail Stream #1 Approach to teaching, Then give Stream #2 Principles followed by Stream #2 Drills then Stream #3 How we apply what we do things Principles Followed by Stream #3 Drills. There is just to way to integrate them because some drills cover so many things. Perhaps a Stream #4 for Uechi and martial artists.
Now I need to integrate in that separation the drills that teach and work how we do things and how we apply things.
Drills:
DRILLS
Structure / Movement
Balance drill
poor Position structure
Move Your Centre
Three External Harmonies
Alternating Palms
Alignment
Joint Mass Centre
One Knee Up One Knee Down
One Knee Up One Knee Down with Alternating palms
One Knee Up One Knee Down Sanchin Mechanics
One Knee Up One Knee Down Wauke Mechanics
Hoops for Knees
Power Generation
Ellipse Drill
Hitting the Circle Sphere
Destruction of Structure
Dragon Flow
Loose Leg
Do vs Allow
Touch toe to wall
Release
Elasticity
Stringing the 9 pearls
Soft Adrenaline
Night of the Living Dead (NLD)
CQC
5 Hit drill
Hard Adrenaline
Foundation Body conditioning
Advanced Body conditioning
Oh Crap to OKAY
Ignore the pain
Blast
Slam (Elevator)
Mindset
Not to be Entangled
Intent
Attack Mindset
Intuitive Fighting
Reading the Attack
Reading the attack
Reading the lines of force
Dragon Flow
Awareness drills (from Balance Drill)
Disentanglement
Not to be Entangled
Micro Moment Skill Set
sticking
Locks
Takedowns
Counter Assault and Knife Defence
See Book
Adapt to all assaults
Empty Space
See Book
Qigong
Zhan Zhuang
White Mist
Ink Grinding
Eight Brocades of Cloth
Additional
Reactive Kumites
Proactive Kumites
Warm Up Drills
IUPA Kata
Sanchin
Kanshiwa
Seisan
Seichin
SansiruiNext I need to separate principles into Stream #2 How we do things and Stream #3 How we apply what we do.
Principles:
Principles
Goals: Efficiency & Effectiveness = Survival
Every Present/Always Engaged
GRAVITY
Muscle/ Tendons/ Ligaments/ Fascia
Foundation Principles
Move your centre
Arms are moved NOT moving
Balance
Structure
Momentum
Act in Motion
JMC
Shearing
Leverage
Mental to Physical State
3 External harmonies
Loose
Allow Not Do
Empty the Foot
Release
Elasticity (Peng)
Disentanglement
Separation of upper from the lower
Resistance
“Actions”
Rotation
Bone Slaving
Sticking/Adhering/Guiding/Leading
Swallow
Smother
Wringing the towel
Strategic
Look to Win NOT delay loss
Empty Space
Move You Not Them
Act in Motion
Strike while avoiding
Never Alarm The Aggressor
Control the Distance
You Have Them Not They Have You
3 internal HarmoniesNeed to organize.
From a document already written I have a starting point for Stream #1:
Steam #1 Approach to teaching
What are you teaching
Principle, technique, principle, technique HUH
What is a drill
It’s Alive
A solid natural reflective entry/response posture
Violence Dynamics
Street Smarts (Awareness) What is it can you teach it
Pleas of Self Defence
Good Enough – or is it?
Sunk Cost Effect
Ego: The good, the bad and the ugly
Wanting to learn, not waiting to be taught
Operant Conditioning – Tactical habits (includes slow training)
Micro Moment Skill Set training
The Maturing Progression of a Martial Artist and how it may affect what your teach.
Shu, Ha Ri
Forms yes Forms
Complex Simple – Introduces Stream #2 How we do thingsAll the best to you.
My Website daughter is looking at making the videos easier to get to.
Planning a new series myself.
Merry Christmas to everyone and all the best in the new year – good things to come for the website I hope.
We created so many drills I stalled on this so I took a different starting point. Much as I did with our principles I have created a spreadsheet with as many drills as I can fin or recall. Now I am adding any existing video links to the spreadsheet so even if the book does not come about there will be a reference for those here on the website.
AND my webmaster daughter is looking at getting a document to make it easier to find videos.
My Webmaster daughter is looking into how to perhaps share the google doc with all the video links on it, but without making it too public accessible. Or we may just trust.
I think I will look into this because everything is on that document and would make things easier but also don’t just want it “out there.”
On the worksheet act in motion branches out to three principles. The next one up is “Never Alarm Your opponent.” This one comes from Tim Cartmell.
There are physical skills and principles to use to accomplish this, but it is a mental strategic approach before it is physical.
The idea is that an Aggressor launches and assault with the expectation that it will be successful and as long as they believe it is being successful, they will continue with that same attack. IF they feel they are being thwarted they will shift to alter or change the attack and if they do that you will have to now respond to something different. However, if they do not know their attack has failed until it is too late then you will survive.
Clearly a clash and bash approach is inconsistent with the idea of never alarming your opponent so a more subtle and strategic or sneaky approach even is required.
We do not want them to know they have lost until they have lost.
So next I have “act in Motion.”
We were working with a group of people one night and Rick B made the observation that the people who had recently come to train responded differently than we did. They made perhaps one movement and then remain in one place fighting as he stated like Win Chun dummies where we moved with each action.
Moving with each action gives a great number of benefits the first being momentum which of course results in force. The second being we are constantly moving the Aggressor’s target (us.) This requires them to adjust their attack which means they begin to have to respond to what we are doing placing them in the catching up role.
In my opinion everything works so much better when you do it moving even if the movement is small. It also leads you to other principles such as one of the next ones – Controlling the distance.
The purpose of having principles is of course to make us more efficient and effective and the more we understand them then the more efficient and effective we will be. However, there is another purpose to being fully aware of your principles and Rick Bottomley refers to this as self-correction or self-critic.
When you understand the principles you want to use then you can review what you are doing and see if you are actually using your principles. Often, we think we are but find out we are missing things. When developing the knife defence there was one night when Stan and I listed out and posted on a wall everything we should be doing and the principles we should be using. We then followed the list carefully and fully as we trained and we died over and over again. We stopped and said to each other that we knew the knife defence worked well so clearly when it worked we were not doing what wee thought we were. A closer look created a new list and that worked. It also gave us a list to refer to when the defence did not work because that meant we were missing something – most often a principle.
So, knowing your principles allows you to make corrections on yourself.
