Rope, all ranges, used to entangle, control, climbing, restricting. Used with a weight it can strike, thrust, entangle,
The Kyoketsu-Shoge is a tool that seems to be a combination of a couple tools in one.
Stress.
I feel over whelmed today. Is the heat? It may be yet even so that is only an excuse. My mind is every where and it’s not happy in any of those places.
I understand the mind is able to do one thing at a time. The one thing I seem to be doing is being stressed.
I haven’t felt this way for some time.
I felt this way early one in my uchi deshi (live in student) programme. Why do I let my self feel this way? I asked my self, I understood it had been my decision to feel this way. No one was holding a gun to my head I was just letting myself live with the feeling.
Just like today. Have a forgotten the lesson that I had learnt in that year? I had learnt that living with stress was like carrying extra luggage. I didn’t need the luggage and I just brought it along so it can affect every instance of my time. I had made my mind up I would not carry such a stupid idea any more.
Yet here I am holding that same stupid luggage!
I admit a live in programme is as close to real life as a penguin sunning him self on a beach, while drinking a fresh cup of coffee that had just washed up on shore.
Just the same, I had it mastered with in the programme, before tests I was just ready. Stress did not enter my vocabulary.
I once heard that worrying about something is just as affective as chewing bubble gum to solve a math equation. Bloody useless!
Yet again I sit here being stressed.
I felt that I would answer such a question while writing. I must admit that this article was going to be on the Kyoketsu-Shoge a very cool little tool. It’s awesome at stabbing, sword capturing, thrusting and striking; it’s also got the ability to have a rope attached so one can use rope techniques. To top it of the rope has a weight to add even more techniques to its arsenal. This one little tool can works form a short range all the way up to far range rope permitting.
Well it seems I was able to talk of both and I feel less stress.
Having faith in ones training trusting you can find answers in your practice.
Instead of being stressed I will act, I will act by creating more of what I wish to understand.
Best of luck
