Shintai Undo Kata Do

What we did on Sunday 19 August 2012

Shintai Undo Kata Do development:  

The above illustration is my representation of the basic trajectory around the cubic model.

Reconsideration of starting points.

Only those of you who have been working with me consistently on this enterprise will know what I am talking about, but don’t be put off for all will be revealed in the fullness of time.  By the beginning of this month (August 2012) I had recognised that thinking of going around the cube describing Us, Ns, Ds and Cs, whilst serving its purpose was not entirely accurate even if useful to a point.  This model carried with it the suggestion that the arcs were semi-circular when in fact, to be more precise, they form a three quarter circle.  Andrew consolidated this train of thought with his insightful viewpoints on our August all day seminar.  Coming from the corners of the cube may only serve to confuse an already complex mind game.  As soon as one places the points of reference at the points where each circle conjoins with the next, everything becomes much easier to unravel.  Going around the cube (which is really a sphere) necessitates six three quarter circles going (in the basic or starting sequence) from the front at 3 o'clock to the top, left, back, bottom and right.  From there shift one quarter turn counter clockwise around the front face of the cube and begin again until you have worked around four times.  Then go to the top face of the cube and so on all the way around.  

I am not mathematically minded enough to work out how many of these trajectories are actually the same but with a different starting point on the same trajectory, and which ones are significantly different.  So my task at the moment is to go through all 48 starting options until I gain sufficient familiarity and understanding to recognise differences and what they are.