05/07/2014
We had a great class today in the Jr. Advanced class. We worked on kata Alot today. We do things a little different at BNII.
We have our katas we learn and work on for belt advancements and weapons katas and katas for all kinds of situations but...
We believe strongly in Brain Training. Lets open our minds to new ldeas.
Today we did some freestyle katas nothing new we like to put stipulations on each other to make it tougher like you must do said number of moves or blocks, kicks, strikes etc. No hesitation of corse.
But today l wripped up small pieces of paper and wrote emotions on them like happy, sad, angry and on one piece l wrote show no emotion at all. Then passed them out randomly asked them to show a brief kata representing what was on there paper
The point to this was to show the importance of having a clear mind not just in kata but in all things. We discussed the different emotions and how they affected there movements such as being to excited can make you to jumpy or slopy or how being sad can make u to slow and sloppy and so on. But the one with the paper that said show no emotion at all (in other words have a clear mind) had the smoothest cleanest most overall powerful katas each time again and again.
A clear mind equals the best possible chance of survival in a life or death situation.
And we finished class with some meditation.
Was a fun class.