the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Man, how you going to explain the taste of wine for somebody who never try it or never see it? It’s hard…

The invisible aspect of jiu-jitsu for me by far the greatest and the most interesting. Because it is not based on what I see it. It is based on how I feel it. That’s why it is invisible. It’s not about seeing. You may see the same guard position, but you feel different if you put pressure here, if you lie a little more here. So the invisible results are the ones that really please me because they are the ones that I really deeply felt you know?

That’s what I try to promote is the capacity once you have to have to develop their own sensitivity for what is invisible.

Balance for example is invisible because it has to be connected with my opponent’s energy. If you push me I have to have my balance based on that push. And if you pull me I have to shift everything and be able to keep my balance on that pull.

So it is an invisible deal of adjustment and weight distribution and connection which has fused the purpose of feeling the pressure or adding pressure or escaping from the pressure or keeping the control or whatever is the position. But for me you saw about those details which makes amazingly different a sense of “Wow man! Now I can feel.” And when the students say to me “Wow man, I understand now!”…wow its not about the visible, what is visible. But is how you feel it and you know it’s experience man which keep me in the game because I love to give that feeling of the students feeling what is supposed to be impossible but based on the invisible aspect you say “Wow! That’s simple.” And that’s amazing man. It’s a special feeling.

Yes, you have to basically relax.

You can not fight using power. Then everything that you are able to do which is in the relaxed mode based on angles, based on weight distribution. You minimize your efforts and you maximize your results. And that is your seeking for the invisible aspects.

Which, the less power you do, the better results you do, you get something right my friend. That’s the way.

The way to seek the invisible aspect is the way where you lose the physical resources and become more like gentle and allowing yourself to the minimal effort and the little angles and stuff you start to become better in your results.

Once you get that direction you start to seeking for that easy way to resolve all of the problems. And then you need the right path.

"They have also been "tested" by many other groups in the park, as well as by many visitors from different counties with different forms of martial arts. One year, a member of Gracie’s family from Brazil visited the park. Respect was exchanged between the two parties and the agreement on the rules were made. After three short rounds of free style pushing, Gracie went home with dirt on his back."
http://www.wuweitaichi.com/articles/Taipei_Report.htm

middleway wrote:I thought some here might find his discription of what he is doing interesting and convergent with some of the IMA goals or methods.

Yep. I posted this years ago after I went to his seminar:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9067

?? Isn't the BJJ method based on JJJ or early Judo. Are these skills really news, I mean isn't this somewhat the meaning of the name JuJutsu?

middleway wrote: Not to jack the thread.

While true its been around I did try to contact the author just out of self interest a long time ago,
never was able to connect. I think someone mentioned it here, that he had passed a way a while back. We all get there, may he rest in peace if true.

This story has been going around for years. I have yet to see any evidence that it was at all true. Unfortunately eye witness testimony, especially when claiming defeat of a famous martial family for personal promotion, cannot be trusted. I read it as an accounting nothing more, no name was mentioned ,it wasn't a lead part, just a part of a total accounting. Met some members of the group a couple of yrs back, they do practice and focus on ph,,,,not my thing, nor interest in the way they and some others use the practice....
For others stopping by Taiwan it might be a good place to check out.
The people are very friendly and like to play. Many can speak English...

Rickson has been a Yogi for many many years. It is highly possible that his deep interest in Yogic traditions has informed his JiuJitsu and was a key aspect of how his style of Jitz developed.

thanks.

middleway wrote:

?? Isn't the BJJ method based on JJJ or early Judo. Are these skills really news, I mean isn't this somewhat the meaning of the name JuJutsu?

Yes i think this is the meaning of JuJutsu. Whether that meaning is expressed in most JuJutsu or Judo is up for discussion.

Could we say that Wu Style Taiji and Chen Style Taiji are exactely the same? I dont think we could. The same is true of BJJ and Judo. Having sparred with British team Judoka and World Champion BJJ blackbelts, there are definative differences in both how they feel and how they use their bodies.

Regardless, I dont think things have to be 'New' to be insteresting. And i just thought it might be interesting.

I have no experience at all with BJJ or Judo, but it could be thatBJJ more follow the traditional meaning of JuJutsu while "modern" Judo has gone the "muscle way" ?