KOTF weekly.

[Tant01]

darn...

I have ne more video to post this Sunday, then it might be awhile before I have time to film anymore.

Work has picked up a lot nd the boy is getting older, so my time is getting shorter and shorter, between, life, training, classes and work.


It has been an intresting expierment and I'm doing this last vid on something I found uite intresting.


KOTF.

I ALMOST "groaned" you for this.

There MUST be SOMETHING? you could shoot? Fun FUNDAMENTALS don't stop with the basic footwork and flow? There must be some follow up you'd like to share? Lets see your wife "kill" you.... LOL

Or the kid? How do you play with the LITTLE one?

My youngest daughter will be 11 years old in a couple months!

She was teaching a little 9 yo boy some shimewaza at the farm yesterday...

It was a proud moment.

[kingoftheforest]

I ALMOST "groaned" you for this.

There MUST be SOMETHING? you could shoot? Fun FUNDAMENTALS don't stop with the basic footwork and flow? There must be some follow up you'd like to share? Lets see your wife "kill" you.... LOL

Or the kid? How do you play with the LITTLE one?

My youngest daughter will be 11 years old in a couple months!

She was teaching a little 9 yo boy some shimewaza at the farm yesterday...

It was a proud moment.

"The Cloud" as he has ben nick named could possibly make an apperance. He loves to play with the shinai.

He's good for a sneak attack too.

[Tant01]

That's awesome buddy! Enjoy him while he's still LITTLE! Wish I had a picture of my daughter doing the newaza style hadaka jime on that little boy who tried to pin her. He seemed to think a pin meant victory but the girl showed him the "fight" ain't over until you say "uncle"... It was cool but I had to warn her to be nice. He was just a little kid... DON'T HURT HIM!!! LOL

[Tant01]

PS... my twin girls (24) used to attack me together! Try to stay standing with a little kid wrapped around each leg? LOL

[Garland]

A quick way to a divorce.

lol...

teribl'e

teribl'e

[mellow]

"The Cloud" as he has ben nick named could possibly make an apperance. He loves to play with the shinai.

He's good for a sneak attack too.

In one of the videos he sneaks in and takes an Indian club.

[kingoftheforest]

In one of the videos he sneaks in and takes and Indian club.

Good eye you passed the awareness test.

[mellow]

Good eye you passed the awareness test.

I found it amusing. He seems like a pretty quiet fellow.

[kingoftheforest]

I found it amusing. He seems like a pretty quiet fellow.

When he's up to no good you know, cause he makes no noise at all.

He gets pretty rambunctious but with the examples of discipline he sees most of the time, I think he understands for the most part what behaviour is accepted and when.

he knows when he goes to Grandma's he can act like a jackass.

To quote "The Cloud" "'ttack!!"

[Tant01]

I feel sorry for his pre-schoolmates...

[kingoftheforest]

I feel sorry for his pre-schoolmates...

Actually around other kids he is very quiet and in the background.

[kingoftheforest]

Random thought

I'm making this post to help myself as well as anyone else who has ever pondered this idea. It's an old concept and it is alluded to in many classic texts and in some such as Sun Tzu's "The art of war" it is plainly spelled out. This idea is of the mind that empty hand or weapon in hand, the fighting concepts you use don't change.

I think that there is a definite mental aspect when people have a weapon.It seems to make people feel more secure for some reason. The sad fact is if you don't know how to defend yourself empty handed a weapon can possibly put you at a greater disadvantage. False overconfidence may cause you to do foolish things in an altercation. Having a weapon you have never trained with does not make you a better fighter.

Musashi cautioned in The Book of Five Rings that having a favorite weapon was a disadvantge and that the best weapon to use was the one in hand. In my opinion he's advocating learning the concepts he placed down and applying them to whatever you have to use, sword, stick, empty hand, anything. "They are the was of strategy, you must study these dilligently" - Musashi


Take for instance and empty hand vs a stick in hand.
You still have the same angles of attack, you still move through the same space to attack , you still have to defend the same space.
The size and length of the weapon will change the range at which you can attack, other than that even the basic body mechanics are the same.
A downward diagonal strike to the neck would still incorporate the same waist and shoulder movement, you would still follow through and then return with a backfist movement that would drive the stick at the opponents face. If you so choose.

Same concepts just applied with a weapon in hand. But you have to learn the concept empty hand before adding a foreign attachment to it. As with any fighting system, you will have holes somewhere in your defense. How large, how many and how exploitable they are will depend on what, and how you train.

[GQchris]

I couldn't see that vid. It says private.

[kingoftheforest]

I couldn't see that vid. It says private.

There was no vid on this one.

[kingoftheforest]

The little one has figured out how to choke up and "stabilize" his wiffle bat. He was blocked and disarmed by the escrima stick a few times and figured it out.

He was also quick to start aiming for the hands.