I think it's called an "ice breaker."
I don't use it as an icebreaker, I ask to get a guess of who I'm training with. It's a bad proxy, but it's better than nothing.
My icebreaker is always the same. An extended hand and, "Hi, I'm Stephen."
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I think it's called an "ice breaker."
I don't use it as an icebreaker, I ask to get a guess of who I'm training with. It's a bad proxy, but it's better than nothing.
My icebreaker is always the same. An extended hand and, "Hi, I'm Stephen."
You could forgo the question and just offer to be uke first. IMO how they move and deal with the attack, tells me almost all I need to know.
I'm not interested in 'fair'. It's not some sort of game.
I can either go to him; have him in for a seminar at my place; or just be sure to get to all of his seminars. I'll make it work.
It's much harder to find the right people to train with then it is to get to them.
Ok, lets pretent this hypo. teacher is in some strange black hole that I can't get to. I'll train with you then. If you've been training half as long are twice as good I'll travel to you AND buy you a beer afterward, 'cause you clearly have a more efficient way of looking at things.
You could forgo the question and just offer to be uke first. IMO how they move and deal with the attack, tells me almost all I need to know.
Ya', I do that too. I don't ask everyone I train with, I usually only ask after I've been uke if I have reason to worry that someone may be a bit new, or if they seem exceptionally good.
Clearly, you have to read the situaiton enough so that you don't come off as a jerk. That's not the point. Training is about tori and uke helping each other get better. Sometimes the answer to that question can help, don't ask in the situations where it can hurt.
Just like anything else, as one of those teachers that I'll gladly cross the globe to train with is fond of saying, "case by case."
Absolutely!It is all about helping each other.
Most of the points I'm trying to get across in this thread revolve around the fact that that isn't always how it works in actuality.
If you'll put in that much effort to make it work you'd be different from pretty much everyone else. I tip my flexfit to you if you were to succeed, though I doubt it.
I think this needs to be elaborated upon...
but the way I see it that is a personal obstacle they will eventually have to deal with or their own personal budo will suffer. I think this is just another example of why a budoka should have a good heart!
Not different than the people I train with.
Yeah, we get it, you're a prodigy, or something.Different from most of the Bujinkan.
Different from most of the Bujinkan.
Henka Blog said:I truly realized that Bujinkan is made up of many interesting people. Each person has strengths to bring to the table. We will all have our strengths and will all have our weakness, this is natural. However, we must be aware that things become out of control when strengths are exploited and weakness are ignored. Think about this.
Yeah, we get it, you're a prodigy, or something.
Why does it matter what 51% of the Bujinkan does?
Now you're doing it again...
I honestly cannot understand why a 15th dan would say to a kyu ranked person "if you can't understand this, you're going to be headed in the wrong direction in regards to what Hatsumi sensei is teaching".