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;) Just wait til I catch you in Harrisburg! :D
Best, Ron (better make class next time, or you'll NEVER hear the end of it!) |
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Oh no, Budd taps everyone on the ground! ;)
Last time I couldn't even tap...knee on chest, trap two hands with one, pound face. :D Best, Ron |
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Gentlemen - need I remind you of the first rule of Fight Club? ;)
Nothing to see here, these days I'm just mostly a teddy bear aiki-bunny. Blue belts in bjj handle me with ease . . . |
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Fight Club? What's that? Sorry, haven't seen the movie. So, I'm exempt from those rules, right? LOL!
Ha! Teddy Bear Aiki Bunny. Cute. The phrase, not you. ;) Mark |
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Rule Number 1: Don't talk about Fight Club
Rule Number 2: Don't talk about Fight Club No exceptions. Hey . . . my wife thinks I'm cute . . . (I hope) Oh, yeah, . . . and . . er . . . baseline skills are good and stuff . . . |
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Well, shoot, if there's no exceptions, I'll just have to rent the movie and watch it.
Baseline skills are good? Ack. They're evil ... right down to the core. All they do is cause grief, exhaustion, divided attention spans, funny looks at work, extreme sweating, funny looks at home, compulsive obsessive behavior, and lots more stuff. Can't do them, can't live without them. :) |
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My ninja sources say today's the day, Big 40:eek: :freaky: :D :crazy: |
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http://www.aikidojournal.com/forums/...ic.php?t=11895 Apart from martial arts, I'm a video editor by trade. I've been watching the 1935 film from the Asahi News dojo, and I thought I noticed something wrong. The motion is wrong. They have the jerky motion that you can see in incorrectly transferred silent film. The professional film standard is 24 frames per second (fps), however you can get acceptable motion at lower speeds. If you shoot at 18 frames per second the result looks OK, although not quite as smooth, and you use less film. Film is expensive. There is no way of knowing what speed an old film was shot at since many cameras were adjustable. If the 1935 film was shot at 18 fps and then transferred to video at 24 fps this equates to a 33% speed increase, that's a little faster than the way Jackie Chan movies are shot. So to test this I took the DVD apart and changed the speed to 75% (which is how the math works out) and discovered to my surprise a whole new look on the material. I am sure the speed is correct when slowed to 75% because when viewed slower the fast movements are still very fast, and the flow of all the movements is much more natural. When seen faster everyone's footwork is almost superhumanly fast, most notably between the techniques as they are getting into position. If you watch the flapping of the hakama they look more natural at 75%. This will require further study, but here are a few observations - Ueshiba Sensei's kiai is audible. In two of the multiple grab techniques (e.g. the last technique in the film) on the 24fps video there is a sound like someone trod on a cat's tail. When the speed is lowered the pitch of the audio drops a little as well. The squeak becomes a rather frightening kiai. The energy level exhibited by Ueshiba ramps up gradually during the film. The opening suwariwaza looks rather casual, the closing section looks much more energetic. Ueshiba looks like he is taking the injunction from the book Budo "Fill your body with ki" seriously. The overall feel is quite different. The energy does not look nearly so electric. At first I was quite disappointed, but having watched it at the corrected speed I'm starting to revise my opinion. The energy exhibited is different, not necessarily worse. It's very interesting when viewed alongside Ellis Amdur's 'Hidden in pain sight' blogs. |
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