|
Post by garage on Jun 28, 2014 13:48:04 GMT
I practice with katana and bokken because if you understand how your are being attacked it might make karate make sense.
If you go to a class it is cut stop and so because, you have done karate you stop with focus. Then when you think about this the blade stopping would clog the blade with body bits it would make more sense if there was a continuous flow in the next move. So stopping dead with focus makes no sense in karate apart from stopping damage to your joints.
|
|
|
Post by Allan Shepherd on Jun 28, 2014 20:09:39 GMT
Hi Bert
When you Ido Kihon (moving) practice with a partner in the various Kumite drills and stop with focus it is called sundome which means to "arrest" the technique, one sundome is about (2.5cm) one inch. When doing Sonoba Kihon (static) on your own (or with a partner) we can practice shoulder extension (and hip extension) which in effect takes us beyond sundome and into and beyond the surface target. Sensei Kase's Shuto Uchi was like attacking with a Katana because it entered at the collar bone and exited by the hip bone following the collar and edge of the dogi diagonally. I continually bang on to students that no technique actually "stops" but continues to move either forwards, backward, sideways, up and down.
Best Regards Allan
|
|