)( not ][

 

WOW What an amazing class we had tonight! Sifu Rybak made a spirograph reference (see shape pictured above) and now it's giving me an entirely new way to think about my forms and the way my energy is moving through each motion during a form!!! I wrote this out in my journal because I definitely don't understand this enough to describe it only using words so I was drawing lots of little diagrams but I wanted to write out what I said a bit more clearly than my frantic ravings I put in my journal so that hopefully when I come back to this idea I can actual follow my train of thought.

Parsed from my writing:

The begining of DMS I is )( not ][ !!! This might completley change how I visualize/conceptualize  flow! Before I understood that there was a Flow Between Techniques. 1) because I have heard instructors describe this before and 2) I can logically understand how energy and momentum could carry over from one motion to the next

But thinking about things in this way )( makes the idea of the Flow Between Techniques so much clearer. Because when I thought of things in a "linear"*** way where the transfer of energy happens at the end of the motion and then new energy is generated in the windup/transitions to the next move, but this idea does not allow for the idea of the Flow Between Techniques (since in this idea almost all of the energy is going into the thing you are striking; it gets used up. And then you are generating new energy and momentum for each new strike/block)

But with this new idea I can better understand that moment of transfer of energy and how it can continue into the next move rather than being created again from scratch. That split second of release/breath when one technique ends and another finishes is more clearly defined for me. And also the motion of how your hips are relaxing and solidifying, of how the transitions between stances is happening. 

I know I am just scratching the surface for this idea, I want to go looking in all my forms, trying to feel this )( rather than this ][ 


***Side Tangent: I think this idea of moving in squares/linear lines came from learning our forms in a 4-sided room on a grid of square mats, I wonder if we had different shaped mats or a circular shaped building how this would change our perception of how we move though our forms!


(Official numbers update for the Year of the Rabbit to come on Thursday when I have some time to analyze the patterns and do a thorough wrap-up)




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  1. Michele WardFebruary 14, 2024 at 10:59 AM

    Thanks for sharing this. I was not getting the Spirograph analogy at first last night until the idea of being a spinning top popped into my head, generating flow and movement from the centre outwards. The Spirograph, spinning top and now your blog all meld together perfectly to bring understanding and clarity.

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