Kaze Uta Budo Kai Forum Archive

monday morning session was fun exploring the 5 element model for tools to deliver energy--patriculaly like that we built a nice void style koshiwaza and found lots of kata examples to play with -- afternoon was on uke, ukemi, and survival and developing resilience in the face of overwhelming chaos -- incremental chaos and opening up the perceptual frame- then jodo with jack on hip power and application plus the last four waza of the sword on sword work
finally lyda long gave us an great lesson on the anatomy of the neck for choking applications and richard lead a terrific randori class-- lots of catching up with old friends --too sweet

tuesday - morning session-- neat session concentrating diagnosing and solving problems on a few basic techniques from a wide range of views-- also nice comparative applications-- neat void form ushiro ate with Amanda and neat sheering style form from Russell-- cool ushiro into locking controls with Eric

afternoon-- knife play and survival --the overwhelm response and randori-- uke as the skill set for survival