Speedy Senses
Sun 08:12 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
In martial arts we spend a lot of our time trying to make the body fast however, self defence also requires training the senses. Sensei would sometimes tell us stories of his early training years and nights where they'd practice kakie, bunkai and randori outside in the darkness. This kind of training would be used to sharpen their vision, hearing and kinesthetic awareness and later when he moved to Tokyo he'd try to 'catch' writing or images from speeding trains. Apparently, Chojun Miyagi was always seeking to improve his vision and hearing in these ways. He'd train the muscles in his eye by looking out at sea and then focusing on objects at close distances, and in the morning when his wife would open the bedroom door he'd try and work out which of his senses (sound or sight) perceived the change fastest.
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