The New Master's Corner

[Ris'sa Taun-Setti]

hmm..no other interest...I shall wait to post the rest then...

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

I'm interested. Any more info?

[Seda Navilli]

still practicing all the stuff lol!

[Ris'sa Taun-Setti]

Hehehhe..

OH...there is MORE.

But since folks are practicing..I'll wait before I continue on...

[Aayla]

reading this is soo amazing im learning so much about saber styles and combat
i quite often hold my saber so the blade is facing vertical facing completly downwards and the start of the blade slightly to the left about eye level what kind of stance is that (its just the onlyone that comes natural to me)

[tailonkae]

Hey Rissa,
I have a lightsaber tutorial in power point form...would you like to take a look at it...it still is being tweaked but it gets to the point...i brought it to C III and it was running at our table.

Let me know if you would like to see it.


TaiLon

[Ris'sa Taun-Setti]

Aayla...glad the info is helping out.

[lazlototh]

Here is an article I read at AikiWeb.com - it's kinda interesting -

Original Source

Imagine a house. Generally speaking, a house has an exterior structure. In the normal sense, there is air all around the house, and there is air inside the house. Air is air - there is no difference between the air outside and the air inside. (Unless something has affected the immediate state of the air inside or out, but that's a different part of the story.)
The only difference in perception between the inner air and the outer air is caused by the walls and roof of the house being there; the structure as we see it, and experience and live within it. This is what creates two localities and causes a perception of duality. However, it is very easy to see, in this kind of example, that in fact there is no real difference between the air inside and the air outside. If we understand that the structure doesn't truly divide the two spaces, we can see that the air is "one entity," one vast "body" that is moving, flowing, circulating.

So it is with Ki.

One way to look at Ki is as the fundamental manifested energy, flow, and life force of the universe. There is Ki all around us, flowing everywhere, like air. There is Ki inside us; our sustaining energy. The body, in this case, as we perceive it, is like a house. It perceptually separates us from knowing the unity of our inner Ki with the outer Ki. This perception keeps us in a state of duality. To transcend this, all we need do is step outside of this perception of "ourselves" as being the dividing entity between inner and outer Ki. When we do this, we can know that the Ki around us and the Ki within us is the same, and that it is unified just like the air inside and around a house.

By being kinesthetically aware of the feeling of flow within us, emanating outward from the Hara, or center, and learning to trust that more than the conventional muscular processes that we usually rely on to support our sense of physical reality, we can release our total reliance on the body and open up to the experience of this vast resource that is flowing everywhere. We can draw on the Ki if we let go of our immediate attachment to our physical and personal references as the sole source and focus of our identity, power, and movement, and let ourselves experience and be aware of the fullness of this "universal" Ki flow, within and without. This is the "key" to using Ki in Aikido, or in life.

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

tailonkae said:

Hey Rissa,
I have a lightsaber tutorial in power point form...would you like to take a look at it...it still is being tweaked but it gets to the point...i brought it to C III and it was running at our table.

Let me know if you would like to see it.


TaiLon

I'd like to see it.....will have my saber and blade by Christmas........

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

bring on the rest of the tutorial.............

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

I noticed that too. A person would need to train a long time to use a light sabre well. I've been trying to see if I could duplicaite how a hilt would feel in the hand. I think replicaiting the gyroscopic thing si going to take some work.

[Ris'sa Taun-Setti]

Wow.

Well, I have not forgotten the group here. I am working on having graphics to go along with the information here on my website.

I have also done a few more tutorials as well. Working on bits and pieces, as I do.

Since folks have seemed interested, I shall continue on with the tutorial.

There are some practicing Katas coming up soon.

Thanks for the interest. And do feel free to bring up any other questions you would like to see chatted about as well.

My thanks, and enjoy.

;D

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

jauhzmynn said:

I noticed that too. A person would need to train a long time to use a light sabre well. I've been trying to see if I could duplicaite how a hilt would feel in the hand. I think replicaiting the gyroscopic thing si going to take some work.

i've been toying with the idea myself.....as posted in another thread.
I was thinking of adding a Potentiometer and vibrating motor to the hilt. it would give you the ability to adjust the amount of "shake" in the hilt.

[Seda Navilli]

Just wondering; is the gyroscopic effect in a lightsaber at the top of the hilt or at the base of the hilt? That would be a big difference...

[Starkindler (The Naked Jedi)]

given the anatomy as I've seen it the efect would be in the upper third of the hilt since that would be in the area of the magnetic coils and chambers where the energy would be discharged from the crystal chamber.