Originally posted by DKI Girl
1. All the clips on my website are what they are labeled.....Demonstrations!!
Good enough then, but demonstrations of what? That striking certain points produces certain effects? Good, too. That using said striking points can be useful in self defense? Still good. That doing the striking as demonstrated equals adequate self defense training? Not good...
2. I want to have future ukes allow me to PRACTICE on them.
I can fully understand your concern... I think it was Jigaro Kano that said, when commenting on what bowing is intended to mean to a judoka, "when I bow, I am apologizing for the pain that is about to occur, and acknowledging that it is to our mutual benefit and is not meant to be taken personally." Or something to that effect.
Not too many folks get off on being whacked where whacking causes "come to Jesus" pain... However, when all involved realize that it is to their mutual benefit and development to participate, the fear of having future ukes turn tail and run is reduced significantly... There
is the issue of having brand spanking new students hightail it away from your school, and that is a legitimate concern as well for those involved in commercial instruction, but it begs the question: "Do I teach to pass on martial knowledge, or do I teach to put food on my table?" Sometimes the answers are mutually exclusive...
3. I am not Oyata and will never put kendo gear on someone just to see "if it works"....I know it works.
How do you know it works? Maybe you know "it" works. Not trying to get snippy, but if
you have never done it at full or near full speed, you have absolutely no idea whether it will or won't work
for you.
Oyata has already done it, so why do DKI people need to do it? You can already see that it works....
Sure, we all know Taika Oyata has done it/can do it. DKI and other people need to do it too, because all we know from Taika Oyata doing it is that
he can do it... That doesn't mean that by extension
we can, too...
Just because you train one way, and I train "color by numbers" as you like to put it....doesn't mean that my way is wrong.
I hope I am coming across not as disrespectful, but as debating. There can be, logically, only
one right way of doing a thing. There cannot be more than one right way, because then one of them is not 100% right. If training a particular way yields particular results, then that way should be examined for its merits, whatever way that is.
I have studied vital point striking in my "mother" system of Yili for a long time. We have always trained to apply them first at slow speed to develop knowledge of the point, the angle of striking, the relationship of our body to theirs, the timing, etc. But we end up hammering the dog snot out of each other at near full speed to ensure we are able to apply what we know
for real.
When I started training with RyuShiKan, it was the same thing. I have never witnessed DKI training firsthand, but if training to strike vital points, or any points for that matter, is never done at near full speed, then the people training are kidding themselves on what they are really capable of. I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with this premise, since it is the basis of the major arguments against TKD, goofy kung fu schools, non-combative Taiji (and for that matter a lot of allegedly combat oriented Taiji), etc.
Please don't take offense to my comments. I mean them in the spirit of combined support and education.
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Gambarimasu.
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