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So when you punch, kick, throw, walk or pretty much do anything while standing up, do you feel a sideways weight shift?
Try simply walking forwards very slowly. When you pick your foot up off the ground, do you feel yourself start to shift/lean over to the other side? Try the same thing with both feet together, and pick one foot up and set it down shoulder width without falling onto it. What happens if you don't get that shift? Whats the martial value in it? I find training something like this a heck of a lot harder than waza practice. |
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Several years ago at a seminar Vladimir and I were watching a couple of guys training. He asks me what I see about them. I look for awhile and I see a couple of new guys, motion okay for new, stiff but moving and training hard. I am frustrated as I know this is not what Vlad wants me to see but I am stumped. I finally give my weak answer and he shakes his head like I am.......a short bus kid. He provokes me to look/see several more times but this slow kid ain't getting it so he tells me to look at how they are when they are doing the drill and compare it to when they are done with the drill, getting up off the floor and repositioning for another go. I finally see what he means. It was like each person was two different people in how they moved. One person doing the drill and another immediately after the drill.
Vlad then says, "You cannot walk one way, every day of your life and then expect at your greatest moment of need that you will walk a different way." (or words to that affect). Take care, Mark J. |
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this related to the discussion in the external vs internal thread on efficiency. |
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Think "propel" instead of "walk." What dynamics do you know that will allow you to create opposing forces to create propulsion in your lower body without having to shift mass? And Phi had better not say "Kim chee."
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Sorry got distracted and did not complete my previous post. While Vlad was talking about more than just the mechanics of walking his point is valid that if we want to move or be a certain way at the moment of our greatest stress then we have to move like that all of the time.
Using this concept I see that every movement I make is a training opportunity. Hunter's drills a good and can be done throughout the day. |
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Of course, I'm large and scarey looking so maybe they are just getting out of my way on their own accord. Walking is very fruitful ground for investigations of all kinds. |
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For example @~5 min mark http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_RiKz7AfHY
And here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7cGxipO_IA |
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