GYAKU HANMI PROGRESSION

A class outline for progressive techniques from static gyaku hanmi katatae dori Gyaku hanmi katatae dori: what is it? A hand grab. Why? Uke stop-hits a thrust, taking control of nage’s knife hand. From the grab, each player needs to match extension to create the dynamic tension necessary for a static encounter. Nage’s focus isContinue reading “GYAKU HANMI PROGRESSION”

AI and Totalitarianism

The BBC reported Google’s DeepMind has been defeating world-champion human competitors in Go and Chess – all without knowing the rules of play prior to the engagement. In 2016, we introduced AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence (AI) program to defeat humans at the ancient game of Go. Two years later, its successor – AlphaZero – learned from scratchContinue reading “AI and Totalitarianism”