The Silk Thread of Gorindo - Ottawa - Canada
Issue 23
- Keeping in Line with Your Spine (Part 1)
- Kihon - Practicing Defences - Intro Level
Photo cover Roxanne Standefer Sensei & Kiito Shichidan Kata’ by ©2012 Claudio Iedwab
The wooden sculpture "Jetée" is the work of Toronto architects and artists Steven Beites and Christian Joakim, and it is located at the Ottawa end of the Alexandra Bridge.
Keeping in Line with Your Spine (Part 1)
The bony spine, and the musculature that allows it to function as it does, is one of several important components of the human body that we mostly ignore until something goes wrong. Then we hear or say: “My aching back!” or “My stiff neck!” and we pay heed only until the pain goes away. However, it is what we do with the spine all the rest of the time that leads to these conditions...
Kihon - Practicing Stances - Intro Level
Be sure that you are doing techniques slowly at the beginning. Increase speed and intensity only when the technique is comfortable and correct. This is where you begin to learn the value of repetition in martial art practice. The prescribed number is not completed in order to say ”O.K. I’ve done that what next?” Each action...
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