— 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!