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Free Gym

5/8/2010

 

Free Gym

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It's got my name on the door but Guest's Martial Arts is only possible due to a lot of help from a lot of people.

Over the last 7 years I’ve had so much help from so many people, from first getting started to running the school, filling in for me when I’ve been sick, painting, plumbing and personal training, artwork, friendship and moral support, financial assistance, free equipment and non returnable favours the list goes on ….

I’m writing about this today because as I type I’m also watching another long time student setting up about 5 thousand dollars worth of gym equipment in the gym that he’s letting me keep here for free. He also has another 15K worth of equipment due in about 4 weeks depending on delivery times. The gym equipment that we already have was the another free loan from another student at the start of the year.

So there you go, one 25K gym, free of charge for parents and members.

Thanks to everyone, you know who you are.



Martial Arts for Self Discipline

4/8/2010

 

Martial arts for self dicipline

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Martial arts’ training has always been a great way to help children learn about Discipline. As an Instructor we have certain expectations from our students with regards to behaviour in the Dojo (martial arts school).

At Guests Martial Arts one of our main focuses is actually on Self Discipline rather than Imposed Discipline because Self Discipline is the key to getting things done not only here but at home and at school as well.

You can’t have someone looking over their shoulder all the time, and even if you could is that what you really want?

Does that mean that we let them run wild on the mats and do what they like? Of course not, however what we do is give the student the opportunity to control themselves and then if that’s not working, particularly with the younger ones; we are there to provide guidelines and rules that set boundaries for students to follow.

We all know that a child with rules to follow is on the whole much happier overall, despite any protests at the time.  I'm  big believer in this approach because if you don't give a child the opportunity to try for themselves with a risk of failure (in the right environment) then they're not really developing any Self Discipline instead they're just learning how to do what they're told and that’s a big difference.

We have other programmes in place as well, such as the behaviour management tools that I’ve developed over the years, our Excellent Manners and Self Control charts play a huge part in getting the behaviour established no only at Guests Martial Arts but also at home and school.

When primary school children graduate to high school the demands for their time increases quite a bit, in the later stages of high school a student can be expected to study as much as 2, 3 even up to 5 hrs a night during exam periods. The key to success in this area is Self Discipline, there is no other way and the time to teach them is now!





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Craig Guest

Jo 4 foot staff Kata Roppo

4/8/2010

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The eight Jo kata we study originated in the Kukishin Ryu school of koryu bujutsu. I was lucky enough to learn all eight while living in England way back in 93 and training with Abdul Kalim.

Abdul learned them from Ishizuka Sensei on a pervious trip to Japan I think the year before. I’ve since practiced them with many people over the last 17 years and they’re a bit of a feature of our schools training.

Hatsumi sensei taught the Jo for an entire year awhile ago but I don’t believe he taught the Kata at all, instead choosing to focus on flow and variations off the taijutsu movement. Another BJK partitioner that I shared them with didn’t even believe that they were real because he had been living in Japan for the Jo year and had not seen them.

In Sensei’s recent book on stick fighting published about 2005(ish) he demonstrated all eight Kata.

In main stream martial arts Aikido is the most common form of training with the Jo although all their Jo is based on spear techniques, I’ve seen 5 foot spears in antique shops in Tokyo, so it’s not as strange as it might sound at first.

History

It is said that in the early 1600s, a samurai warrior named Muso Gonnosuke Katsuyoshi came up with the idea after he was defeated in a duel by the famous Musashi, but not killed. His weapon of choice at the time was a Bo staff, but it was too long. So through deep mediation while in the mountains, he came up with the Jo staff which is about two feet shorter than the Bo. After he started using the Jo staff, it is said that Muso was never defeated in a duel again. To find out more simply search the net on Muso Gonnosuke, there’s lots of info around

Some of the key points of Jo training 

  • Allow the Jo to slide thru your hands, not gripping to firmly. You can slide the full length of the weapon
  • Drop your weight when striking on downwards strikes
  • Always be off the cutting line
  • You must have your hands close together (thumb length apart )when striking (not like in Aikido which is more centre and the end ) so you have the reach advantage over the swordsman without your hands as exposed.
There are more key points but we’ll cover those in class over August, the Kata we’re going to focus on this month is

Roppo


Uke :- Seigan No Kamae
Tori :- Gedan No Kamae


Tori :-   Steps forward with the right foot to do left Ashi Barai releasing the right hand grip on the Jo
Uke:-    Jumps up to avoid resuming Seigan No Kamae on landing


Tori :-   Continues the motion to move the Jo behind the shoulders and then re-grips the Jo from the right side with the right hand (overarm style) then twists anti clockwise with the hips releasing the left hand grip to strike at Uke’s left Kasumi re-gripping with the left hand
Uke:-   moves the back foot around and back anti clockwise to block using the side of the blade in Seigan no Kamae


Tori:-   Slides the left hand up to the right hand and steps forward with the left foot, releasing the right hand grip to strike down onto Uke’s head re-gripping with the right hand
Uke :-  Parries with the right side of the blade and then steps back with the right foot to move into Dai Jodan No Kamae and then attacks with a downward cut


Tori :-   Leaps in to thrust forwards into Uke’s chest and leaps back out for distance.

If you’ve not read my explanation of the Bo Kata – Wrist Thrust you might want to read that next , particularly the part concerning how to train Kata.


Jo is one of the wepons that we study in our Adults Martial Artsclasses



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