Part 2/3 Te takes a rather parental approach to assailants, such that someone attacking out of anger (an adult having a tantrum), should ideally be controlled and calmed without serious damage (this obviously depends on both skill and threat levels). Te has ‘weapon-gathering’ methods, and treats weapons as ‘needing to be confiscated for safe-keeping’ (this is not to say that …
Te the Warrior.
Part 1/3 Okinawan Te is a highly incisive weapons art, and a superb empty-hand self-defence system. It is one of the few arts that were truly designed, at their core, with multiple, weapon-wielding, opponents in mind. Te encompasses the highest principles of the Zen based martial arts from mainland Japan and those of the ‘internal’ Chinese systems. It is also one …
The Hara
The hara is ‘the seat of the subconscious’, which deals with our survival instincts and procreative drives, and therefore some of our darker emotions. Referred to variously as the ‘id’, the ‘reptile-mind’, or by the yogi’s as the ‘kundalini’ (a great black serpent that dwells at the base of the spine), this part of us can be super-aggressive, utterly ruthless, and …
Okinawan Te, Karate & ‘Te’; The confusion.
‘Udun-di’ (Palace-hand’).also known as’Te’ (var’ ‘ti’ or ‘di’), literal translation ‘hand’ or ‘martial skills’. Okinawan Te started evolving somewhere after 600 ad. It was, and still is, the original, and premier, martial art of Okinawa, developed long before the Ryukyu Kingdoms (the Three Kingdoms) emerged, or the adoption of tode/karate. It is the sister art of mainland Japan’s iai-jutsu …