The topic of fitness and Budo has come up in the past few months so often that I wanted to write about it.\u00a0 Everytime I wanted to I was caught in an infuriating (in my opinion) conversation, I do not like to write blog posts with my grey matter thus troubled.<\/p>\n
With able body,
\nAnd unhindered reasoning,
\nTrue budo aspired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI made this haiku for to explain what I have been told by Japanese shihan.\u00a0 I wrote about it often in my posts.\u00a0 The way that we are ridiculed by Japanese instructors because of our poor physical condition.\u00a0 Besides not knowing the techniques needed to progress in our art, our bodies are in no shape to even preform the techniques of the Bujinkan.\u00a0 We have quite the audacity trying to pass on our sloppy techniques to others.<\/p>\n
I of course don’t want to get carried away and turn our classes into exercise classes but come on, we should know a bit about what we eat and effective ways to keep our bodies flexible and strong for the sake of taijutsu.\u00a0 The techniques don’t require speed or strength but if we don’t take care of our bodies how can we hope to attain the most important technique from Hatsumi Sensei, being able to move like a 30 year old when we are 77?<\/p>\n
Being able to do it your own way is not good enough either.\u00a0 From conversations that I have had with the senior Japanese shihan, if you can’t do the kihon then why do you bother coming to see Hatsumi sensei?\u00a0 As I have said before, one of them was astounded that he had a class who wanted to do the kihon so he gave us the gift of an hour worth of training on our tsuki (punch or thrust).\u00a0 After that he told us that if we practised that every day for a year we could relearn the basics without habits.<\/p>\n
In the haiku I mentioned that able body and unhindered reasoning.\u00a0 There are very few people in the Bujinkan that I give a pass on technique.\u00a0 Those few whom find themselves in a wheelchair or otherwise infirm I know can not do techniques as taught by the shihan.\u00a0 Otherwise, it’s time to get to work lets get our bodies and movement right.<\/p>\n
I look forward to the madness this post will cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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