(583 posts)
Dec 7, 2010 9:52 am
reseach notes
several areas of research lately looking at extensive videos of aikido work by George Ledyard, and likewise the no-contact Systema work by Vadim Starov, reading Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller, and Sleights of Mind by Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde, Sandra Blakeslee
many good points to digest and integrate
ukemi and collusion/ ukemi and resiatance/ ukemi and fluid dynamic responsiveness
kuzushi at a distance
pro active self defense and kuzushi
training with shock and impact
internalization of taking the center response
recovering kiai and atemi
getting inside the attack and perpetual kuzushi
manipulating the edge
the five elements and structures of delivery of energy
kuzushi and attentional control
slipping into the peripersonal space
the necessity of randori and kata
kuzushi and proprioceptive confusion/ the gamma loop