– – – by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
One of the things that I’m always belaboring is the idea of “move slow”.
One of the reasons I want you to move slow is to make sure that you’re co-ordinating your body correctly. The other is that you have control of your speed – I know at first that doesn’t seem as obvious… But I’m trying to make sure that you have the ability to control your speed in time and space.
So. Often, people move quickly thinking that, well, the real thing will happen really fast. Which may have some truth to it. But I would say that if you’re pretty perceptive, you won’t put yourself in that particular situation often. But then, if you think about driving, perhaps, and it’s snowy and icy and then just right in front of you it all of a sudden starts to develop into that thing we all know…
Now, being able to move into shikaku quickly could be called fast. A person thinks to strike, and in their activation they activate their ki and their body’s committed to moving – and ‘phwwt’, like the speed of light, you’re in the correct position…