— by Kimbal Anderson Sensei
Once this part of me is lined up and heavy, my foot adjusts and my arm adjusts, and now it’s moving in that flow again.
Easy.
Effortless.
I invite you to play with it. Also you don’t have to set down your sword, you just be heavy. That’s it. Gravity lines it up. You just learn not to oppose gravity, so you always have reppaku. Then It isn’t an effort, it’s just the way you function.
And there’s a a stage when you function from reppaku all the time, and if you find yourself somehow knocked out of it, you say ‘that’s funny,’ and you just put it back.
I want you to be able to micro-adjust your body using ‘heavy’. It will help your shoulder. It will help all of you, your back… everything wil be ‘mo’ better’; you’ll sleep better, your life temperature will be warmer… It’s all good, right? Also your organs will align in gravity. One thing that happens in the West is – that’s really a thing – everything’s so controlled it doesn’t fit in gravity any more, it’s all an artificial posture.
This will work so easy. It works so easy. And once you’ve played with it a bit, you just watch some video of Sensei move, and go, ‘okay, if you just do that, what happens?’
It looks like this.
And all this stuff, I’m going ‘what the f***!’ This stuff, and this stuff… he’s not off balance. But we are. But watching him, when the movement happens, this becomes heavy and it adjusts. This becomes heavy, and it adjusts…
He’s always doing that.