May 03 2008
Respond like an echo
Just a short note on a Hatsumi sensei class. We were preforming techniques, some from Togakure ryu, but not necessarily. Sensei was stressing the importance of responding to the persons attack like an echo. He said that if you did this it would not matter if the opponent retracted his attack or left it hanging out there.
I am still mulling over this in my head, so I have no answers for any of you. If I come up with anything over the next day or so I will let you know through comments.
Well maybe it just has something to do with how an echo comes back at you. It doesn’t smack you in the face, it surrounds you, slipping by you, and as it passes it enters your ear :O)…..
HA….i tried …
interesting, as I read it it had more to do with intent and causality.
A noise is created, and what follows naturally, with no hesitation, is an echo. A reaction that does not attempt to mimic the original, but IS the original returning to it’s source only carrying slight variances from the sounding board.
For me I am reading this a comment on intent and hesitation. Echoes have no hesitation, and only add a slight difference to the original sound, an echo in a cave is different than an echo by a lake.
So although reactions will change somewhat from “Character” to “Character” note that the lack of hesitation and the fact that the echo does not change on a fundamental level from the originating sound, only in its “variance.”
…there’s the literary interpretation from your friendly neighbourhood English teacher.
I guess I deserve that for not writing a serious comment……