Martial arts as strikes, locks, and throws, popular and dynamic movements.
What about walking?
Moving silently as a way to practice balance control, moving
through different levels of terrain, but what about something even more basic?
Basic as in fundamental to building correct taijutsu
movement.
Walking in the martial ats.
Kata, forms, and patters as an excuse to practice, to create
a lesson in the moment to offer a transmission of isshi-soden, but what does
one do with the forms? What do they produce? Taijutsu has a way of moving, a
way of doing things, a certain tell-tale flow to it, which comes from being
able to move in correct alignment.
The understanding of body dynamics.
These dynamics begin with walking.
One of the first lessons of ninjutsu, walking from one end
of the dojo to the other- how is one walking?
Are the feet in alignment with the direction one is moving?
What is the length of the steps, are they in balance? Where are the hips
pointing? Shoulders over the spine, head over the shoulders? What about the
arms?
Through stretching, breathing, and correct alignment
walking, resetting the body to ZERO, so one can begin to move with taijutsu.
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