gregstec

I have been looking into some of the Chen stuff lately, and IMO, the video shows physical manifestations of some good basic principles and concepts associated with aiki IS/IP - granted, they are of a higher level then the basic concepts Mark and I went back and forth on in the Elbow thread, but still at a basic level nonetheless.

Just some other comments - I liked his disclosure that as you gain skills, additional layers are added on and your form changes; as in the knees not moving when performing at a higher level, but still doing the split of energies. The thing I did not like was his comment at the end about the practice of the form is where to start learning the skills; to me, this is working from the outside in to gain IS/IP skills - I prefer to work from the inside out by focusing on the internal energies that lead to the physical manifestation of form.

Greg