Miyama-ryu Ju-Jutsu of Miami
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LOSING
THE BEST TECHNIQUES
By Sensei Jhoel Tejada
Through
history, the martial arts have been a scene that consists of two actors: those
that have the knowledge and those that wish them to learn. Becoming thus a
succession of generation rolls in generation. First they disappear someday, and
the seconds they become the teachers. The scene never disappears because always
a new group has arisen from interested people, and because always some, although
are single few, become teachers. But, this we asked ourselves: interested in
that?
And the aspects are several that the groups interest that look for the
martial arts: those exist that look for them in order to find a tool that allows
to learn to defend itself them; many look for the physical exercise; others look
for the discipline and responsibility; some look for a philosophical and
spiritual experience; and, in the worse one of the cases, many look for vain
personal satisfactions.
Nevertheless, they are the techniques, basically, the aspect that wakes up
the greater interest in the people who begin in the way of the martial arts. All
students are instructed in a number of specific techniques that correspond
to each one by degree, learns them, develops them to the point of maximum
effectiveness and aspires to learn the new techniques of the next degree to
which aspires.
The instructors on the other hand, insist on transferring to their students
the knowledge that learned as well of their teachers, to correct the details, to
encourage to practices it and to impose the discipline, spirit to optimize the
climate of the learning in dojo (place of the illumination).
However, in our days some " techniques " we had lost
techniques that are vitals to the development of all marcialista
artist.....
The first technique is the commitment. This is a technique that has
practically disappeared of our arsenal. Alway on time in the activities (arrival
to classes, attendance to events, etc.); involvement in the life of the ryu (aid
in the classes, attendance to the physical establishment, knowledge of the
particular situations that affects the present time from the school to which it
is belonged, among others), the vision to reach the maximum goals that the art
offers that practice, have been replaced by an apathetic attendance to which it
has become a " social club " or a simple entertainment to occupy the
personal agenda.
Another valuable technique that it has been deposited in closet of the
forgetfulness is the transcendental knowledge of the system that practices,
along with its techniques and history. This technique, that governs all the
others, this being reserved for some " fanatics " that have to their
position this so " unnecessary " task, losing itself thus, those that
so they do, on an enormous benefit, because they ignore that the technique that
wishes to learn, depends on small factors (place of origin of the art, factors
of elementary physics, etc.) that, all together ones, influence widely in the
correct use of the technique.
A very subtle technique, that has gone away slow, but surely degrading is
the technique of the respect. And although it is certain that this technique is
made by two, (because the respect depends to a large extent on the knowledge,
authority, example, etc. of the person who it demand), also is equal of certain
that this it must be impeccable in the mind of the person who must pay it. The
confidence never must be confused with the libertinism...
And perhaps, a technique that we do not do but once every decade is the
technique of the comradeship. The sacrifice by the other, the request to help,
the interest by the martial and personal state of our next ones, the joy by the
triumphs is disappear, sadly of the martial panorama, which has become a selfish
desert.
As I always say to my students:
" the technique are formed by many small details. To lose itself of the
details, is to lose itself of the technique... "
Push our self's to get to handle these techniques, and the others we will
dominate them perfectly; then first, without second, they do not serve to us as
much...
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