What we did on Tuesday 14 August 2012
Exercise 1. Falling or ‘heavy’ hand technique. Moving and advancing to the outside (body
change - taisabaki), centre-lining,
allowing the lead hand to ‘fall’ into the bridge (whilst retaining the passive
cover hand in front of the sternum), ‘bounce off’ principle using the
attacker’s arm as a bounce off platform projecting the back wrist to the head
(jaw line). Finish the exercise with a
reversed back wrist or palm thrust
In respect of the
Centre Line theory, the following should be noted:
Mother Line -
A vertical axis line through the body from the crown of the head down through
the perineum and into the floor.
Centre Line -
A line that runs down the front of the body between your eyes, down your nose,
over your navel and down to the floor.
Having made an evasive movement with the feet in order to offset and line
up with tori’s (the attacker’s)
mother line, and presuming that in the moment of response your attacker has not
turned to face you, any straight counter attacks are delivered to the mother line,
not to the centre line. Only hooking or
circular roundhouse counters can be directed to the centre line.
Central Line -
The vertical plane between you and the attacker, extending from the mother line
and passing for the most part through the centre line. This is the line we use to protect our centre
line.
Taisabaki (body change) and counter attacking to the mother line while at the
same time protecting your own central line is fundamental to Shinseido
practise.
Exercise 2. Staying
inside body limits. Simultaneous body
change crane wing style trailing hand bridge and lead hand counter. Any delay in delivering the counter (which
can constitute a disabling, weakening or distracting technique will result in
the “shots across the card table”
situation in which neither tori
(attacker) or uke (defender) has an
advantage.
Exercise 3. Receiving a (right)
round house punch or strike with the back of the (left) arm and allowing it to
deflect the attack over the head whilst at the same time using the other (right)
hand to create a juji (crossed hand
position) from underneath to feed the attacker’s arm into a ‘shut down’
situation where you are repositioned on the back of the attacker’s arm. The receiving (left) hand then takes over in
control of the attacker’s upper right arm.
Exercise 4. Extending the
above (exercise 3) process into an ongoing egoless flow drill.
Exercise 5. Breaking out
of a corner. Using the strategies
rehearsed in the preceding exercises and with the emphasis on ‘shutting down’.
Exercise 6. The 1–2–3 principle. Right thrust attack – pick up on the wrist /
forearm with the left hand. Slip the
right hand under and take up control of the upper arm. Finishing with a left hand counter control to
tori’s (the attacker’s) head or
torso.
Exercise 7. The unbending
arm. Utilising the concept of stability,
strength and projection of energy in resisting attempts to bend or control the
arm. Recognising the mechanical
limitations of that process and also practising loose ‘slippery’ snake
responses to continued attempts to control your arm.
Exercise 8. Shinsei’s ‘odd’
personal techniques. Kaeshi waza (Debana no kijiku waza) or attacking an attack
with an attack. Deflection of low and
high straight thrusts and directly into a counter thrust with the same hand and
arm. The low response being spiral in
nature and the high response being of a hooking nature.
Exercise 9. Shinseido hooking hands. Practising receiving and
switching to the inside upper aspect of the arms of the attacker and then the outer
upper aspect. Maintain contact
throughout (the ‘sliming’ principle).
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