Advanced practitioners need just a few seconds to adopt shizentai, beginners need more time and need to practice a lot. Standing still or creating “shizentai” is the first step in footwork exercises.
Nevertheless, it is possible some movements can occur when kyokotsu and koshi are involved. In essence, there is neither footwork nor arm movement. This is an exercise with a lot of movement controlled by your mind. The main purpose of ritsuzen or standing meditation is to create a “linked” body-system. I would like to repeat a remark I made in other articles: Don’t take his words out of the context, because we have to take in account another concept or skill: Jukozo or the flexible body. And footwork includes also the use of shizentai or in Hino’s words “one’s body a single block”. For example, moving forward, or backward, being a solid block”.īoth skills (taijū no idō and taijū no dendō) are based upon proper footwork.
Hino Sensei (Hino Budo’s method) says: “Strictly speaking, the motion of the body weight is to move by making his body a single block. These are already discussed in other blog posts.Īmong the fundamental elements of martial arts are, taijū no idō or moving the body weight with footwork and taijū no dendō or the transfer of body weight one of the most important concepts. As Kenji Tomiki said: colouring the dragon’s eye. By understanding the different aspects in proper footwork and practised these during solo-training and partner exercises, the finalisation will come forward during randori. And don’t forget the concept of “ MA-AI“. Besides the basic types, we also have to think about the relationship between the body weight and gravity. In case of footwork, we have to consider the basic types of footwork. Such an answer is not solving your problem. How to.?Įverybody knows that the answer coming from famous teachers when you ask them for something you don’t understand. We have the pattern, we know “shizentai or natural posture” is necessary during body movements, but most of the practitioners don’t know “how to….”.
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Unfortunately, we cannot find indications how to use footwork in a proper way. In “Judo et Aïkido”, an abbreviated English version of his Japanese books, the same concept is used to explain the footwork exercises. It is used in numerous books written by Kenji Tomiki. This is one of the many overlapping components between Aikido and Judo. It is available in PDF, and readable on all your devices (computer, kindle, smartphone, tablet).Ī paper version is now also available on Amazon or directly at the dojo.All the practitioners of the Tomiki method, whether it is Aikido or Judo, are familiar with this model of footwork. The first E-book published in English on Nihon Tai Jitsu is now available for HKD70 only. A whole chapter is dedicated to this topic, covering the rules of the dojo, the keikogi, bowing, the roles of Tori and Uke and teaching concepts. With traditional roots in Japan, dojo organisation and etiquette are key elements of Nihon Tai Jitsu. In this E-book you will also learn about the origins of Nihon Tai Jitsu and of the arts that influenced it, but also how the method has been structured. In this E-book you will find all you need to know to prepare for your Shodan:ĩ0 pages of content with hundreds of pictures to cover all the basic principles, the fundamentals (te-hodoki, tai sabaki, ukemi, atemi), basic techniques (atemi waza, kansetsu waza, nage waza) and kata (3 basic kata, Nihon Tai Jitsu no Kata Shodan, Kihon Kata).
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