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TACHI DORI (Forms 1 and 2)

I have been presenting sword-takes away from the paired sword form san-no-tachi. The reason to show the disarms from a paired sword exercise is to train the visual system to recognize how the moment in time looks and to teach sensitivity in weapon engagements. Form 1 is done on after the first kirikaeshi. Shidachi executesContinue reading “TACHI DORI (Forms 1 and 2)”

John Hodges Wadhams

The compilation of these genealogies are combined to a single pedigree It is maintained in Family Echo – once the link is open, the family tree will branch vertically and horizontally depending on the ancestor selected. John Marsh Wadhams II: (5/7/1811 – 10/10/1896) [See Hibbard, The History of the Town of Goshen, 1897:245-247] m. 1837Continue reading “John Hodges Wadhams”

UKEME – HIGHLINE STRIKES

These posts – and most of my classes – as I stated in my Introduction, are pedagogical experiments: My attempt to understand, explain, explicate and communicate the why and how of each technique to derive universal principles. My last several classes have explored shomen-uchi kokyu nage direct. I have presented it as a three-beat response:Continue reading “UKEME – HIGHLINE STRIKES”