territory vs the map ( pretty koshiki sis)

 If you really want to be like Morty start to use analogies derived from stupid 1970 and 80's commercials. Confuse the hell out of your students to make like you've touched wisdom from some sort of edge of reality place.  It's all comes from you had to be there type knowledge.  And a whole lot of stuff that teachers can't transmit to students.  Like how everything used to be closed on sundays, or the world before 300 channel TV, or video games.  The past year I have been struck by the lack of children playing outside, even in mild weather.   Go outside an play and curing your own boredom is like all the fire and stones, holding down a pillow, type shit musashi wrote about.  It can't be transmitted in words.

You can only have those certain suspicions.  Like how a first release action may not have anything to do with a ikkyo/#6 but a head dunking iriminage action, with that big 10 choke and drop in there. and how #6 may just be a "nicer" idea or the the third girl that says yes, after the 1st and 2nd girl said no.  # 6 may be like taking your cousin to the prom.  It's just a stupid guess.  But its more consistent with the kito/koshikiness of what was percieved as the reality of effed up medieval japanese interactions. 

Modern Mortyism #1
 do you understand the kata as someone who is so bored they are playing connect four with their sister  or are you merely saying pretty sneaky sis over and over.   Try this on an 18 year old kid and then make em do suwari waza for a month.  they'll either think you are a  yoda like genius or go back to playing grand theft auto. 

 

Modern Mortyism #2
This was in my akijournal junk mail this morning.  A guy who understands the so bored I'm playing connect four with the sisters.  no pretty sneak sis.  if you are like me it looks like a 17 kata air show.  It also underpins the koshiki/kito nature of the  8 releases.  cross hands, mirror hands.  dump and pull, dump and drop, raise and drop, dump and rise.   you see the side to side and up and down but you forget the diagonal.  thats the sneaky sister.  this cannot be transmitted in writing.  you must practice.

modern mortyism #3

If you think we don't do this in Tomiki aikido, with our everyday dishwashing of the releases and 17 then I'd say that you are soaking in it.  What the morty-ryu folks call advanced teaching we call dishwash hands.  When one  man is paying attention to the lamp from the rummage sale the other is thinking about the hands.    you've been soaking in it.  this cannot be transmitted in words.  you must practice. 

You may know the territory, but all the kid wants to do is study the map.   Morty may have never been a samurai, but he saw all the essential commercials about the samurai.  He understands what dishwashing can do to your hands, he played connect four with his sister.