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Kevin Mackie
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Forgive me for WAXing poetic this early in morning but the evil Jin of Pun permeates me incessently. As I became older I TAPERed down on air-guitaring punches as it affected elbow tendons. For my bio-dynamics I found that the fish tail blocks have stayed with me and improved with age --in synchrony and out of phase, i.e., crossing palms. I have noticed in some Uechi videos that the wrist blocks start with the tips of the fingers moving first, negating the accelation attendant to 'collapsing' the wrist while keeping the finger tips at x-y-z positon as long as possible.
The friends I have taught e.g., disarming movement 'left wrist snap toopponent's weapon holding right hand/simultaneously shifting to left and in with shoken to neck picked it up quickly, practiced it incessently, and one told me with some gratitiude when he returned from a 'vactation' to another region of the world that he actually used it. I also showed them that the same wrist block snap could be used in opening Seisan to modify dual hands to temples with 'bear paw' hiraken hands to ears - demonstrating with left open hand being hit with wrist snap with right 'paw'. The air compression is forceful and the knuckles also participate in energy transfer.
Deep Sea's dictum of having one or two choice 'secret' movements that you repeat so often that it becomes totally automatic holds in spades for me with wrist blocks, especially when nature determines, against all your protestations, that coming up to 65 should not have obliterated the jumps and spins you were able to do 43 years ago. (Ho-ho-ho, Mother nature does know!!:))
The friends I have taught e.g., disarming movement 'left wrist snap toopponent's weapon holding right hand/simultaneously shifting to left and in with shoken to neck picked it up quickly, practiced it incessently, and one told me with some gratitiude when he returned from a 'vactation' to another region of the world that he actually used it. I also showed them that the same wrist block snap could be used in opening Seisan to modify dual hands to temples with 'bear paw' hiraken hands to ears - demonstrating with left open hand being hit with wrist snap with right 'paw'. The air compression is forceful and the knuckles also participate in energy transfer.
Deep Sea's dictum of having one or two choice 'secret' movements that you repeat so often that it becomes totally automatic holds in spades for me with wrist blocks, especially when nature determines, against all your protestations, that coming up to 65 should not have obliterated the jumps and spins you were able to do 43 years ago. (Ho-ho-ho, Mother nature does know!!:))
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As a paean to Nature's mastery over us, I noticed in post that 'She' caused my brain to see "....coming up to 66" while causing me to type ".....coming up to 65". Sheesh!! Sic transit gloria mundi! [No, it does not translate to Taking Gloria Mundi to the MBTA is degenerate 
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]Yes, the tendons can take their toll when you don't do impac
Tendons will be injured when you overextend them and use a lot of repteitive motion without some impact and that is why some groups do not fully extend the arms,etc. or twist the fist, etc. or tense the arms unduly,etc. Each person has to find his own degree of doing such. But thanks for your comments. Yes, developing one's "secret" methods is just one way of making certain things really your own and doing it better than what the average person would do under the circumstances......maybe......Chronological age is but this:the journey of the planet arou
People often tell me they are getting older but I tell them I am getting younger. Of course, when you total up the ages, that is,your chronological age what does it really mean? It means the path of the earth around the sun in one circle and has little to do with your physiology! For some reason this astronomical measurement has come to take on an absolute meaning for human life and so we tend to measure ourselves in terms of a number and not reality. The reality is that our bodies have their own time not measured by the earth's path around the sun. However, the minds of most contemporary peoples tend to feel that at very definite stages, based on years noted and birthdays, that certain things are to be expected and that as they continue to achieve these numbers, depending on the charts you use, they will experience all the maladies, ills, pains, aches, etc. as a direct result of such chronology! So,many people think that at age 65 they should be 'retired" and everything should slow down. But the truth is, that you have to speed up since you have less time now than you did when five or six years old. If you have survived thus far, and not succumbed through accident,etc. then you may well continue to do so...........hopefully so. Well, I will let some of you digest this stuff and comment before proceeding further with anymore diatrivbe! Thanks for your time. Halford 
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Halford: Your astute analysis and world view is well stated.
. I am blessed to be of a group who age relatively slowly. My Uncle on Dad's side passed away 2 years ago at 102, still walked, talked, played checkers in South Boston. On mother's side they 'chased mountain goats' into their nineties and older. My 91 Mother-in-law, the windsurfer and "I am still going to aerobics 3 days a week but I am slowing down, I now need to take a nap mid afternoon", believes that Death will have to run prettly quickly to catch up with her.
In the last 9.8 years that I have retired I still do Big 3, 3 times a day, 150 stomach rolls, free wieghts, and personal mathematical research.
From my narrow perspective one's world view is a prime carrier signal for the rest of your mental/physical biological structure. GEM is a prime examplar for such a positive outlook. Some of the outstanding attributes he showed in 1960 was POSTIVE, OPEN, HUMAN, & JOY in teaching and passing on his art. My wife's renowned ballet teacher in NY, Margaret Crask, taught into her 90's until she passed away. I joke with my wife that she will have to inflict her discipline and art on her students until she is at least as old as Crask
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Van's and Bill's fora are much much more than just Uechi, they promolgate an important venue for positive living.
Where else can you learn to separate realities of Uechi from mythologies, what are the hotests motorcycles, why Italian Beauties drive some of us happily crazy, which SUV is the hotest - - an Uechi '12 step program' to self improvement. I bet that if one of us were to confess to the rise of the ugly male primal urge for a fast German 'stock' super car (0 -60 4.5 sec - stop me before I indulge again!) the Uechi brethran would devert attention from "which was the orginal form of Sanseiryu" to form an intervention group, apply cold compresses of old 64 Buick Wildcat ads, wave the cooling fans of Porche information sheets, and reduce the fever :):):)
. I am blessed to be of a group who age relatively slowly. My Uncle on Dad's side passed away 2 years ago at 102, still walked, talked, played checkers in South Boston. On mother's side they 'chased mountain goats' into their nineties and older. My 91 Mother-in-law, the windsurfer and "I am still going to aerobics 3 days a week but I am slowing down, I now need to take a nap mid afternoon", believes that Death will have to run prettly quickly to catch up with her.
In the last 9.8 years that I have retired I still do Big 3, 3 times a day, 150 stomach rolls, free wieghts, and personal mathematical research.
From my narrow perspective one's world view is a prime carrier signal for the rest of your mental/physical biological structure. GEM is a prime examplar for such a positive outlook. Some of the outstanding attributes he showed in 1960 was POSTIVE, OPEN, HUMAN, & JOY in teaching and passing on his art. My wife's renowned ballet teacher in NY, Margaret Crask, taught into her 90's until she passed away. I joke with my wife that she will have to inflict her discipline and art on her students until she is at least as old as Crask
.Van's and Bill's fora are much much more than just Uechi, they promolgate an important venue for positive living.
Where else can you learn to separate realities of Uechi from mythologies, what are the hotests motorcycles, why Italian Beauties drive some of us happily crazy
, which SUV is the hotest - - an Uechi '12 step program' to self improvement. I bet that if one of us were to confess to the rise of the ugly male primal urge for a fast German 'stock' super car (0 -60 4.5 sec - stop me before I indulge again!) the Uechi brethran would devert attention from "which was the orginal form of Sanseiryu" to form an intervention group, apply cold compresses of old 64 Buick Wildcat ads, wave the cooling fans of Porche information sheets, and reduce the fever :):):)
Yes, the forums are marvelous and informative for all.
There are some of us who utilize or have utilized the following scheme to arrange things in our lives but,of course, do not attach anything overly superstitious to this as many are apt to do. If you look at the basic physiology of people, according to science(that anonymous body of experts,etc.) we change our cells every seven years. Although I am always wondering where the data is to be found and what it actually says about this. But I am detracting from what I want to say. Taking our ages and arranging them in periods of seven years can provide some interesting, if not startling revelations about ourselves. For example, starting from 0 to seven would be the first period,while from 7-14 would be the second period, and 14-21, the third period, and so forth. Most you now get the idea somewhat. It took me years to see something in this, however. Right now I am in the TENTH PERIOD OF LIFE. Looking at this, you can see that very few periods remain after the THIRTEENTH PERIOD OF LIFE. So, given this,if you begin to plan, you should start early in life and accomplish certain things during these periods. Many people do this while others fail. Let me know your thoughts on all this. Thanks. HalfordFulton
GEM: What ever happended to Bob? Harvard v. MIT as I remember .
You once took a class photo of our motely group in the meat locker. Charlie Coughlin (a super instructor), Don Mc Callum(sp?), etc. Could you post it some time? As the old canard says "Nostalgia is not what it used to be"
. You once took a class photo of our motely group in the meat locker. Charlie Coughlin (a super instructor), Don Mc Callum(sp?), etc. Could you post it some time? As the old canard says "Nostalgia is not what it used to be"
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