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Post by mikedunphy100 on Dec 17, 2014 7:13:44 GMT -5
Kim,
Your leadership in creating momentum on the forum is greatly appreciated. Shari and I were talking about "thinking basic enough" recently. All of us have a tendency to think in clusters and arrays without seeing the core components and what they are doing. Think of a person hitting a baseball pitch. There is a huge amount of biomechanical action happening in that event, but regardless of all that complexity, the true end game is the ball and the bat (two components) were apart and you are wanting to bring them together and then apart again (a hit). There is a finite number of parameters involved in the action of bringing the ball and the bat together (trajectory, force, exact contact point, ball compression, bat density, etc...), but ultimately, at the core, the hit occurrs because the bat and ball were brought together and made to go apart again.
The non-Jokyo eye sees the swing, pitch, catcher, etc...as a cluster of inter-related components that seem to complicate the the core purpose: bring the bat and ball together.
The advanced seeing eye from ITP is the filter that removes all of that complexity and sees the simplicity in the complex. Then we simply reverse engineer optimal from that core action.
Anyway, this in my take on the idea of thinking basic enough.
MJD
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2014 12:03:18 GMT -5
Excellent, excellent analogy, Dr. Dunphy! I think you hit this one out of the park! In Session 002, Viol Sensei said that gripping/grasping is about OPEN and CLOSING your hands. Basic thinking. No matter what permutation you do, you are still just opening and closing. It brought to mind the BASE RKOs chart from ITP. BASE RKO’s (Musical Martial Notes-No more! Nothing else physically.) Basic RKO’s (8):
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| Up | Lift | Tense | Down | Drop | Relax | In | Close | Wrap | Out | Open | Expand | Rotate | Circle | Flow | Twist | Turn | Wind | Thrust | Push | Straighten | Pull | Draw | Contract |
Would these be the simplicity within the complex that we are to see with our ASE? Would this be thinking basic enough? I think so. I still don't see the simple within the complex everytime, but I am getting there. Thank you, Dr. Dunphy. I appreciate the knowledge and understanding that you share about all things martial.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 0:13:19 GMT -5
Well now that finals are over I'm finally able to catch up on the very insightful conversations. Like Kim mentioned, that is a very sparking analogy Dr Dunphy! I thank you for that! That spark reminded me of something in my Human Anatomy and Physiology class this past semester.
While learning about the association peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system of the body I started to become fascinated and lost by all the mechanisms involved with the movement of the body. Trying to understand how all the different types of neurons communicated with each-other,sending impulses to specific areas of the body based on different types of electric potentials and . . . . so on.
While sitting down to study for my final exam I became overwhelmed with everything until I stopped myself with a realization: all these systems really break down into two things, the absence or presence of an electric impulse, a 1 or a 0... Your arm isn't going to move unless there is an impulse.
I can see the need for all this basic thinking. Once you push everything aside and find the core, it's easier to add things on piece by piece.
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Post by NewcombMatthew on Dec 21, 2014 8:32:29 GMT -5
In a recent conversation with Viol Sensei, we were talking about thinking basic enough, and the relationship between what we are doing and music. He then said that one of the most "advanced" musicians he knew once said that music was either noise or no noise...maybe not the exact words, but the concept is there. Music is binary, either 1 or 0. Now, that is basic!
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Post by NewcombMatthew on Jan 4, 2015 18:10:46 GMT -5
So, I was at the hospital with my wife today...we were visiting her grandmother who had a series of seizures last night.
When the resident came in, we asked what could or would have cause them after so many years of medications and not having any.
His response was that there could be three reasons:
1. She did not take her meds 2. Her body has built an immunity to the meds 3. Her cold meds she was taking conflicting with her seizure meds
He then stated that each reason does not necessarily mean the others weren't factors. So, it could have be 1 and 2...and my mind immediately went to:
1 alone 1&2 1&3
2 alone 2&1 2&3
3 alone 3&1 3&2
1,2,3 together
Then I wondered what the optimal sequences would have been in order to cause this, and the Neurologist will have to look into the optimal sequence to reverse engineer the incident to come up with the optimal solution.
The whole time, I was saying to myself, in my head...JOKYO, JOKYO, JOKYO!!
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Post by NewcombMatthew on Jan 6, 2015 13:55:14 GMT -5
Well, the set was incomplete. It was #4. She tested positive for the flu and it was the flu that caused the seizures.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2015 21:41:19 GMT -5
Thankfully, they discovered the reason. I hope she is feeling better quickly, Matt.
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