"Keep your back straight" is so important and so simple that I take it for granted a lot of the time:
My mom used to tell me to stand up straight.
Master Takara of the Shoehei/Uechi-ryu school Stated the importance of keeping your back straight during Kata. He emphasised this directly when speaking to us once at my dojo in Lowell, MA about the Kata SanSeiRyu. He stated that there were 8 directions you moved in but your spine being straight was the connection between heaven and earth.
Tim Cartmell taught me the importance of body mechanics and the importance of your spine, using it as a great lever.
The great Brazilian Jiu Jitsu folks I've had the opportunity to train with always have told me to "posture up."
Sometimes, the most simple thing to do is the hardest to do.
Just keep your spine straight, that's all...
Good training,
Joe
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
What's in a freakin' name?
I guess I should have named my website, "do you have the balls to do this???"
The name the study within is too soft for most people. I don't do therapy. Although, the training I give the guys can be theraputic.
The guys that train with me, don't rub their navel and chant.
They work hard on mixing it up. They push themselves. For a lot of them, they're doing things they never thought they could do. They want to do Burpees every workout as part of the warm ups. They are freakin' nuts.
So, I'm going to keep the blog the same name. However, I'm trying to come up with a new name for the website. Something that people can sink their teeth into and not be embarassed about the name. Enough with the esoterical and more with the meat and potatoes.
Maybe it will be "Step up you sissy mary martial arts and killer arts"
Stay tuned...
To study the way is to study the self,
To study the self is to forget the self,
To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things...
- Zen Master Dogen
The name the study within is too soft for most people. I don't do therapy. Although, the training I give the guys can be theraputic.
The guys that train with me, don't rub their navel and chant.
They work hard on mixing it up. They push themselves. For a lot of them, they're doing things they never thought they could do. They want to do Burpees every workout as part of the warm ups. They are freakin' nuts.
So, I'm going to keep the blog the same name. However, I'm trying to come up with a new name for the website. Something that people can sink their teeth into and not be embarassed about the name. Enough with the esoterical and more with the meat and potatoes.
Maybe it will be "Step up you sissy mary martial arts and killer arts"
Stay tuned...
To study the way is to study the self,
To study the self is to forget the self,
To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things...
- Zen Master Dogen
Thursday, October 2, 2008
You have to want it
Mindset.
It's the first tool you need to be successful in fighting or competing.
If you don't want it, you won't get it.
You have to want it.
Other tools are necessary too, but if you don't have the right mindset and want it, pack it in because all those other tools are useless.
That's why I named the site the study within. Your toughest opponent is yourself. You fight your own laziness, fear, guilt, busy schedule all the time.
You have to want it.
See you on the mat tonight...If you want it.
It's the first tool you need to be successful in fighting or competing.
If you don't want it, you won't get it.
You have to want it.
Other tools are necessary too, but if you don't have the right mindset and want it, pack it in because all those other tools are useless.
That's why I named the site the study within. Your toughest opponent is yourself. You fight your own laziness, fear, guilt, busy schedule all the time.
You have to want it.
See you on the mat tonight...If you want it.
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