Magazine • the Silk Thread of Gorindo

 

The Silk Thread of Gorindo - Ottawa - Canada

Issue 23

- Keeping in Line with Your Spine (Part 1)

- Kihon - Practicing Defences - Intro Level

- Pearls of Gorindo...

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.

 

 

Kihon - Practicing Defences - 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 is an opportunity to program your brain and your body for correct technique. It takes quite a number of correct inputs before the mind& body mechanism begins to flow on its own. The discipline lies in not “throwing away “ any of the opportunities to prgram the right information.

Be aware of the muscles that are required to perform the technique. Notice the difference between holding ready and being too tense. All muscles not involved in providing the strength or the relax/tense response that produces the action should be resting but in a state of readiness.

 

Shodan-age-uke (single arm)

Action:  High block with one forearm only. 10 times slow motion, followed by 30 times medium speed.

Repeat the same executing the sequences on the other side.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action:  Alternate high block -shodan-, left/right. 10 times slow motion, followed by 30 times medium speed. Check that your fist is in the correct position when chambering. Do not repeat any faster than you are able to do it correctly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the exercises and techniques should be practice only under the direct and personal supervision of an authorized Gorindo instructor, they are presented as a form of an online sample guideline for active and registered ‘Intro Level’ Gorindo students.

 

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by Claudio Iedwab & Roxanne Standefer

Originallly published in the Gorindo Student Manual by Claudio Iedwab & Roxanne Standefer

© Illustrations by Claudio Iedwab

 

 

- Keeping in Line with Your Spine (Part 1)

- Kihon - Practicing Defences - Intro Level

- Pearls of Gorindo...

 

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