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— by Kimbal Anderson Sensei

But from here I’m totally stable. 

I can move.  

I can explode.

I can get into that place…. the Nara thing, right?

The whole idea of this is ‘heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy… heavy… right? And so if my hip’s a little tight, or my knee’s a little tight, instead of finding it, I just go ‘heavy….’

I let gravity inform my body and get out of the way, with any laugher or desires, and just go ‘ok, where do I feel any kind of tightness? That foot…’ Now watch.

Now watch where the power comes from.

Did I look ever like I was ever unbalanced? Because it’s an explosion of power, from that place I was showing you. And also you keep your place.

Look famiiar?

Look famiiar?

It’s Sensei’s thing, it’s what he does!

Well I’m thinking: ‘well how….? Okay.  What’s the kernel of wisdom in this? Not just copying him… What the hell’s going on there that I can use?’

Because he wasn’t going to share it…  Right… Okay…

But from there, when I move, I can absolutely just ‘heavy…heavy…heavy…heavy…’

Right. 

I’m totally relaxed. And in order to move, when I fire up down here: everything stays heavy, as it’s moving…

It’s totally effortless, Peter…

I feel no effort in that motion at all.

So if I can share that part of ‘heavy…heavy…’

You can practise it in everything!

from ‘Poetry [compared with intellectual] Knowledge‘..(1944)… by Aimé Césaire….

Poetic Knowledge is born in the complete silence of Scientific Knowledge.

By reflection, observation, experience, a man, at a loss when faced with facts, eventually comes to master them. And from now on, he can find his way in the forest of phenomena. He knows how to handle the world, how to turn it to his advantage…

But king of the world he is not!

A generation later, probably, this version is put together for display in church: and quoting the locally well known standing stone – but with consistent word order changes…

niu havorumr / niu hangestumr / Hathuwolfr gaf ‘J’ /

Hariwolfr ma[??]usnuh[??] / heidher runo[ro]nu felakh eka hei/dhera [ra]ginorunor / heramala[u]sz arageu weladudh sa tha[t bariutith]

— by Kimbal Anderson Sensei

If my nose feels tight I make it heavy…heavy…

That will allow you to…

Watch!

Look familiar?

That’s how he does it. That’s how he’s able to do those postures which look as goofy as f*** because if you don’t do this as well, it’s goofy. It’s almost like he’s saying, ‘I’ll give you a puzzle that you can’t do unless you have the secret thing… You can try and I can correct you five hundred times… You will never, actually, do what I’m doing. Because I’m not telling you what I’m doing.’

Being able to have a locus like ‘feel your elbow itself’, ‘by itself’, ‘all by itself, and make it heavy…’ And then, when I’m moving, any place that tightens…. right there, my scapula tightened… I just go ‘heavy…heavy…heavy…heavy…’

If you had a tape of him, I could exactly simulate it. It took a while for me to figure out what approach he was taking, to be able to do this really lead-with-the-face goofy s***. Because I would look at it and go, like, ‘on a budo level …my sword teacher… he would have killed you, because you’re basically saying “hit me”… But from here I’m totally stable.

I can move.

I can explode.