Wednesday, August 11, 2004

In 2002, the "dominant concept" was presented as "jutaijutsu", with material from Takagi Yoshin ryu (a samurai jujutsu system from the 1600s) as the primary vehicle. People, and there were a lot of them, who adopted an "omote" or external focus on learning the kata and waza missed everything, as what it was "about" was conceptual: A couple of the key points in "the meaning of jutaijutsu" as Soke was presenting it are:1) Nothing you do should require any more physical "effort" than it takes to merely move your body through empty space without a training partner or opponent;2) Your partner/opponent should not be able to sense/feel/interpret what you're doing until it's too late (if at all!).