tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post8901300542564140709..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: TricksRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-57739004981695664262015-12-08T11:18:17.272-08:002015-12-08T11:18:17.272-08:00Hugh- I know this is an old post. Sometimes (and t...Hugh- I know this is an old post. Sometimes (and this is a demo trick, not a fighting skill) if someone throws a long range punch at your chin, you can snap your fingers in front of your chest and point and the punch will follow the pointing finger to miss your face. It's not particularly useful, but very funny.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-48598857781337187522015-12-01T19:11:29.992-08:002015-12-01T19:11:29.992-08:00*no touch* parry?
What do you think it could be?...*no touch* parry? <br /><br />What do you think it could be? I cant help but think its some sort of footwork feinting combination hjklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04867610693482789645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-41257686228722820852011-08-01T20:52:32.744-07:002011-08-01T20:52:32.744-07:00Rory -
On second read through, you where talking ...Rory -<br /><br />On second read through, you where talking about communicating in the written word not at your seminars or in person.<br /><br />Sometimes this just write what pops into your head stuff gets me into trouble.<br /><br />Disregard my previous comment, or not,<br />JoshJosh Kruschkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288700371539530398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-88893910031411855122011-08-01T20:40:41.703-07:002011-08-01T20:40:41.703-07:00Rory -
How much of the burden of proof lies at th...Rory -<br /><br />How much of the burden of proof lies at the teachers feet and how much lies at the students. 50/50, 60/40, 80/20?<br /><br />This is how I see the problem. The job of a teacher is to pass on something in a clear cut manner, not couched in mysticism and complex jargon. <br /><br />The students job is to listen and question. Are there people out there looking for someone to give them the 'answer' and do their thinking for them, yes. Are you responsible for them and what they do; no they are responsible for themselves.<br /><br />Are you actively doing things you know to be, unintentionally, harmful to those around you, and would you stop if you discover that you are?<br /><br />Are you doing more harm than good?<br /><br />If you believe your are doing more harm than good, then stop what you are doing. <br /><br />But having said that what gives you the right to take away my right to try and fail..... <br /><br />To learn.<br /><br />This attitude is like trying to teach us to ride a bike with training wheels, then worrying that if you take off the training wheels we might hurt ourselves. They only way to find out for sure is to take the wheels off, and see if we fall down.<br /><br />But you have to find your own answers just as we do.<br /><br />My 2 cents,<br />Josh<br /><br />Ps. For those who might think the bike analogy is a poor one, because SD involves life and death. I'm not sure if my grandmother would of let me continue to ride my bike any where if she new how meant time I almost killed myself on it.<br />:-)Josh Kruschkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288700371539530398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-39094143266569754972011-08-01T19:02:50.297-07:002011-08-01T19:02:50.297-07:00Thanks, everyone, but I need to reply to Scott. I...Thanks, everyone, but I need to reply to Scott. I may not be clear, this is the edge of one of my mysteries.<br />There's video available of an SD class subjecting women to "woofing.' In an attempt at stress innoculation, the woman stands there, sometimes crying, while a man gets in her face and makes threats and says terrible things. The instructor believes he is teaching a student 'what to expect' but what the student is practicing is letting someone invade her space, threaten her, articulate a clear disregard for her life and she does nothing. Instructor thinks stress innoculation, behavior ingrained is passivity.<br /><br />There is a line between what we are teaching and what we think we are teaching. That line is especially challenging when we get deeper into the matrix (not in the scifi sense but in the geological or chemical sense). When we teach something that works on a physical plane but the mechanism is on a social or psychological plane, I've seen too many students who accept it like a discrete skill, like a formula. They memorize the trick, but completely miss the what and the how of it.<br /><br />So these fall into the categories of 'tricks' and things that take first-person interaction, because I lack the skill in teaching and communication to be sure that what the student learned is the lesson intended. Technique is easy. When it goes beyond technique and into psychology and environment and interaction and dynamics, I can't explain it clearly enough to trust people to just run with it and not get hurt.<br /><br />This probably should have been a post.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-25303902315616270502011-08-01T19:01:37.203-07:002011-08-01T19:01:37.203-07:00What trick?
It must be magic.
Why, you didn'...What trick?<br /><br />It must be magic. <br />Why, you didn't play by the rules.<br />Why didn't you teach me that.<br />That's not fair. <br />You expect me to think for myself, but...<br /><br />But, I'm in a box.Josh Kruschkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09288700371539530398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-61645529913973455652011-08-01T18:33:07.610-07:002011-08-01T18:33:07.610-07:00I suppose that is what is meant by the expression ...I suppose that is what is meant by the expression "Martial Arts Principles"--That depth which lays beyond the trick.<br />I think all that plastic mind stuff can be put in to principles and trained. What makes fighting with a tiger mind different from fighting with a sea turtle mind? What ever the answer is, it is knowable. <br />And that leads us to the sticky question, should some things remain secret? For the teacher perhaps the answer is, yes, at least until my mortgage is payed off. Then again isn't it the teacher's job to simply stay ahead through hard work (I like to think so).<br />But for law enforcement...shouldn't the really great tricks remain a secret?Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04771944484286659825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-84129622334018413802011-08-01T17:18:42.935-07:002011-08-01T17:18:42.935-07:00First, great movie...converted from VHS to DVD to ...First, great movie...converted from VHS to DVD to save it. <br /><br /> Next, I sometimes think that that is how a third of the stuff gets into kata in the TMA. Something works once or twice and it gets incorporated as a technique completely diminishing its effectiveness which original came from the element of surprise.<br /><br /> Mark HAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-65693216764714834882011-08-01T13:00:42.350-07:002011-08-01T13:00:42.350-07:00"By the Sword", one of my favorite movie..."By the Sword", one of my favorite movies. Not the best acting perhaps but the story isn't half bad.Wimhttp://www.wimsblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-4521319071355499452011-08-01T09:48:09.856-07:002011-08-01T09:48:09.856-07:00Samurai Girl, you could always come to Minnesota t...Samurai Girl, you could always come to Minnesota this fallKaseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16392248937462950113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-82623609086930918932011-07-31T21:10:57.319-07:002011-07-31T21:10:57.319-07:00Now I want to know what the no touch parry is... D...Now I want to know what the no touch parry is... Does this mean I have to wait till the next near by seminar? Drat.Fliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10063623552203994093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-55918877628456106382011-07-31T14:33:15.434-07:002011-07-31T14:33:15.434-07:00I see your point.
thank you for answering/adding ...I see your point.<br /><br />thank you for answering/adding color to my question.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com