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Gernot Hassenpflug · 08-10-2007, 10:06 PM

I think it is much harder to put out such ground-based power than it is to absorb, mostly because in ordinary strength "putting out" is an antithesis of "relax" whereas absorbing is not. Maybe that's one reason ground-path training is so hard, and why the exercises (that I know from Akuzawa) tend to work linearly, to imbue the feeling the same way in both directions.

08-10-2007, 10:06 PM	#64
Gernot Hassenpflug Dojo: Aunkai, Tokyo Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 319 Offline	Re: The Leather Man I think it is much harder to put out such ground-based power than it is to absorb, mostly because in ordinary strength "putting out" is an antithesis of "relax" whereas absorbing is not. Maybe that's one reason ground-path training is so hard, and why the exercises (that I know from Akuzawa) tend to work linearly, to imbue the feeling the same way in both directions.