Nungali

Go easy ? man .... we went to train at this big club in the city as one of their 'Masters' invited us . When we got there, three burly black belts asking us questions and they all giving me a weird look and when I commented on their weapons rack one guy says " You wouldnt need a weapon, you just shoot them and bury them in the back yard . " ... and my lawyer said the reason I got searched every time I went to court, even when the sensor didnt go off was because I " Looked like the kind of guy that would stab you without hesitation' .... okay , I got some teeth knocked out which I havent fixed and I got some facial scaring .. but it isnt from fighting . In over 40 years of MA , including weapons I ; cracked a guys ankle bone once -when I blocked a kick, I split my mates forehead (no stitches needed) with a bo , I gave a guy in aikido a head egg with a jo and I pronged a guys cheek with a sai side prong ... lightly - thats it in over 40 years. A woman approached me once after aikido training " I just want to thank you, I have been watching for a couple of moths now and you are so good with my son, as you probably realise, he has some developmental problems, although he is huge and you have been so gentle with him , yet not too soft so he doesnt feel patronised .... just right , thank you ." Besides , trying to go hard or prove something, for me , interferes with my learning , which is the whole reason why I want to 'cross train' (in other forms and traditions) in the first place . besides , I am gettin on a bit now , you might have to go easy on me I dont like this 'tying to prove something' stuff, I went off at my 'instructor' the other week , he is always trying to do that , he is randomly and carelessly attacking me with jo techniques and so many times, I countered his attack, before it was even half way through with a strike to his fingers or wrist, stopping just on light skin contact . Then he "WHAM! " right across my knuckles , and I ' "What the fuck ! I have hit your fingers about 10 times and pulled the blow and I dont even think you knew ! .. and the one time you do it you smash my hand , dont do that , whats your problem ? " ... and he sheepishly " sorry, I am a bit of practice " me; " Well go and practice your focus on a tree or something ! " ... and thats the instructor ! sheesh! every so often he gets a bit toey and I have to remind him " I will kick you in your knee replacement " ... that makes him show a little more 'consideration' and 'focus' . Oh yeah ... I got it down to a fine art , that toe grippin stuff he is me doing star jumps at home

Well, its a complex field that I understand little about , my sister told me I should get mine done as it might be different ... something about the descent of male and female lines ? But yeah , $70 isnt too bad . Check the link I posted above, get some more info, find out what the specific tests offered are actually doing and choose the appropriate one / s . You might have Siberian reindeer herder DNA too We could all be in the same granfalloon !

does that thing ^ have a face as its genitals ? ... nah, probably not ... its an alien, I am just giving it human association, genitals between the legs and all that . if it is a real alien , I suppose its genitals could be in its eye .... or back home on its planet ... or ....

4% Russian Steppes ? ? ! Cousy bro !

Whose food do I eat ?

- strange I just went to edit and I couldnt and a big box came up 'too much time has elapsed this post cannot be edited ' ? I have never seen that here , I have on other sites, you have a time limit , but not here , I can edit posts months back . This one expired after a few minutes . So I went elsewhere, came back and tried to edit it again ... and edited it as usual . .. and just then , before I could hit post for this, I got a notification and as it came up this post disappeared and went back to the last post ... so I went elsewhere again and when I came back, so did this . < tentatively and carefully presses post button > (now the edit works like it used to ... )

.. and ones actions . Certain life choices relating to behaviour (actions ) create certain states of mind . Thats why I like this stuff; Zoroastrian Way, Purpose and Goal of Life Way of Life Amesha Spentas Eternal Enlightenment - Ageless Wisdom • The way of life suggested by Zoroastrianism is based on achieving six ideals: ‥ a good mind: a positive attitude and gaining wisdom ‥ principled living: honesty, honest work, helpfulness, moderation and balance ‥ independence: self-reliance and leadership ‥ serenity and happiness ‥ wholeness: healthy and holistic living ‥ an undying spirit. • Included in the ideal of independence is autonomy: not being beholden to anyone, not being a slave to any dogma, and having the sovereignty to make free and independent decisions - all within the self-elected bounds of ethical values, goodness, and not causing harm to others. The ideal of self-reliance is balanced with helping the less fortunate maintain their independence and dignity. • This way of life gives effect and meaning to the creed: to commit to a life based on good thoughts, good words and good deeds. Zarathushtra: "With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself." ------------- Liber Librae ; " To obtain Magical Power, learn to control thought; admit only those ideas that are in harmony with the end desired, and not every stray and contradictory Idea that presents itself. " Fixed thought is a means to an end. Therefore pay attention to the power of silent thought and meditation. The material act is but the outward expression of thy thought, and therefore hath it been said that “the thought of foolishness is sin.” Thought is the commencement of action, and if a chance thought can produce much effect, what cannot fixed thought do? " The origin of our thoughts ? Thats a dissertation !

Anywayz ... what for ? So you be ike the lady on the tv advert .... standing in front of an old sword leaning against the wall, point on the ground, upright... who does that ! What, they cold not afford a wall mount ? Look out little Johhny, dont bump that, t will fall over on you and chop your arms off . She has some other regalia on the wall, suggestive of some old time colonial something ... and something suggestive of a bush rangers garb ... an old coat or something . Then she beams about how she found out she had a bushranger in her 'family' and says " Everyone wants a bush ranger in her family " and beams a proud little smile . What, when her friends come around she stands next to the objects she has casually placed around her home to highlight her new identity and says " I have a bush ranger as an ancestor ." Well , good for you . 'Ceptin its all BS .... mostly . Been a bit of "Hey ! I got totally ripped off ! " by some peeps silly enough to spend $$$$ on it here . Why ? Some Aboriginal women sent in theirs for analysis and it came back with all this supposed ancestry from all over the place ... but no Aboriginal ancestry. Conversely ... my sister has spent years tracking down the roots of our mystery paternal grandmother . She found out she was Gallician, . sis even learnt some of the language , went there , people asked her why she was there and she told them, she was welcomed and celebrated but sis said , no, its generations back .... the Gallicians said we dont care, a big party, a sister has come back home ... all of that ! Last year she did a DNA tests ... not Gallician at all . Whats she gonna do with all that stuff on the wall AND my sister is a geneticist / micro biologist . So what's going on ? https://now.tufts.edu/articles/pulling-back-curtain-dna-ancestry-tests Besides .... I could by the remains of an old sled and some snow shoes and stick them on the wall and tell everyone ' Look ! I got my DNA done, I am part Muscraba Siberian reindeer herder . " and peeps would nod and admire me In other words , you can lie and make the whole thing up ... according to whatever flavour of ego you currenty have ... and no one would know .

Someone has been very busy with the delete button.

... ummm , just in case your 'legendary skills' where under rated .............. find a picture on the internet, on your screen , that is - dont try to right click on a picture on the wall

find picture > right button 'mouse' click on the picture > select 'copy image location' > set cursor in TTB posting box where you want the image > right click > select 'paste ' .

Well ... that music is not my cup of tea at all .. and I was even more 'surprise' when the guy doing the TC started singing .... or miming . I thought it was 'strange' BUT It reminded me of when I was trying to learn Crane Form ( Okinawan so a totally different 'performance rhythm ' to Chinese). I decided to learn that and a long Swinburne poem at the same time, so I would practice the form and recite out loud at the same time, but I could match rhythms . Which must have looked pretty strange and funny . But I can still do both at the same time ... I think ... half a mo' ... Yep... still can do both at the same time I actually love training to music, gotta be right rhythm though .... like in Capoeira . or below (next post ) And I DONT mean some lame martial arts demo to 'Eye of the Tiger ' PLEASE NO ! Not again !

YEAH ! That was brief, to the point and .... 'punchy' . Thats what we call 'the pitch' or the hook , its gotta be short quick and good . Front cover stuff (down the bottom ) . What Starjumper has been writing is more of an 'outline' ... good for a back cover .

3rd principle - element air - have 'no mind' . Once, when I was trying to show this guy a sword combo , that he just could not get, in the middle of it he said to me ; " I wonder what's for dinner when I get home ? " Me ; " If 'no mind' is too hard , just think of 'clear blue sky ' . "

I liked reading this post, could relate to a lot of it ... being 'retired' and all that . My 'isolation' really isolated me .... , from development in martial arts. But then after a while I found a teacher I needed, at that time, right here, sort of hidden . [ The curious thing is too, that when I was more heavily into Aikido ( Aki-kai), and moved here, I was the only one that seemed to know it . But later I found out that the 'head guy' for Oz ( like a few different 'schools', they have HQ in China, Okinawa, Japan, USA and have 'regional masters' looking after different countries ), before I moved here, had married a local woman and had bought land and started construction for house and 'Australian national dojo' ...... in my valley ! When I first arrived, I used to pass the empty block with the strange looking very large spring floor ... and nothing else . Dont know what happened there , I think he lives in NY now ? Also his son went to local High School , he has returned a couple of times for visit , I did a couple of sword sessions with him. ] On the other hand, my lack of REAL isolation, was needed as the 'school' part relies on the 'student' . Maybe thats why we find bigger schools in city , many more people to supply the 'rare breeds' out of ? In any case, here, eventually, numbers dropped so the 'official school' closed . the unofficial one is pretty interesting and a LOT more laid back . I didnt spend all my money building a big place , it had a nice cabin and I started building a big house that would sleep visitors (as at that time it was a thriving retreat centre , sometimes every bit of floor space with a sleeping person and people camping in temple and in tents). But that 'died down' , I got rid of the then GF as she was hopeless and I thought :Why bust my arse finishing the house when I have a fine 'bachelors pad (cabin)' ? So I got this horrible mess half built house on the path in . I will get to fixing that one day , there is a conversion plan. But hey , things happen , and happen in a certain way for a reason. I would not change a thing, considering how it all turned out and how I feel right now. You might feel the same way eventually. I am guessing they are like the energies here . If they want you to stay, no way you will be leaving , and do NOT think of fighting it . This aspect is sooo well known here, people warn others about it. One woman was told, she had 2 attempts and things went wrong and stopped here. But only when she was trying to actually move , trips to town and visiting out of the valley are ok. She was told and rebelled and stated she wasnt going to be told what to do ! S o she packed and took off and put her kombi in the river off the 2nd bridge - with baby in car ! No one was hurt or injured though. A few months later, she was offered a good place in nearby town to rent, everything seemed to be falling into place, she moved there with no problems . Seen it heaps of times ! Conversely, no matter how much you wanna stay, and they wanna spit you out .... you gone . But there is another whole other side about our connection to land , they energies that are there, the energies we help develop there, how they move with us and/or stay behind. Its different if we are not 'born out of that land', but that does not stop us making powerful connections, discoveries and developments (in self and land ). I use the term 'connection to land ' (here the term is connection to country' and most may think they understand it, but it can be an immensely strong and powerful thing . Its a very big part of my indigenous shamanic path . Eventually one 'melts' into 'landscape' , becomes part of it, even if we where not born out of it. "When I die, I go back to earth . " - 'Big Bill ' Neidjie But people not really interested any more ... its just .... 'Old man's story ' I moved up on the mountain for 6 months, I loved it ! Yep ! New ones, amazing ! But I had already become 'sensitised' . But I had not given up my valley place . I would visit - cabin in valley by river and lodge on mountain up in clouds - yeah ! But it turned out I was not to leave .... 'I ' ( and my 'dragons' ) even kicked the governments / Attorney General's arse in the Supreme Court case and got the land and houses ( and temple and festival site back ) ... even tour lawyer was weirder out by our 'fortuitous circumstances' and turns of event and said ' Whats going on ? Why do these things keep happening ... are you guys 'doing things' ? ' Well, sometimes we feel a bit hemmed in , especially in high mountains and deep valleys (mine looks like a moss filled crack in the earth from above - its an old subduction fault . I like to get to the beach - 40 mins away and look out at the vast horizon of the Pacific. But , you know what's it like , I (and many others ) go on a trip away and then its very obvious, how bad it is 'out there' and how good we have it 'at home' . Just do something different for a bit. If a big move is really going to happen ... it will all start 'happening' . ( this is probably gonna sound really obvious and dumb when I read it back later ) Peeps no longer interested in what we used to do .... they get attracted to 'hermetics' and 'shamanic stuff' and 'Magick' but its in the form of 'dance parties' / 'forest doofs' . I got fooled myself once, saw this poster for some hermetic ' type event, covered with 'very suggestive' glyphs and symbols .. WOW! people are into that ? Nah, it was a 'theme' for a dance party . How was the theme played out ? I asked around of some people that went , apparently it was just in the advertising poster .... yeah .... they get me going . A whike back, someone bought some wayward youth here on a camp. I was asked if I wanted to teach the boys any MA, they where so keen! Okay. ... 'boys' ... more like big muscly youth at least my height . I would keep going with them until they pleaded to stop. I would ask "Whats up ? " and they "We been at it 2 1/2 hours ! " So I would 'let them off' , then when they gone ..... " Urrrrgh ! " - stagger home ... ahhh me hip ..... oooo me back ... run a hot bath oh shit , why did I do that Just turn the empty big house into one My half built house started as a metal foundry ! That idea (last occupant ) never took off. Anyway, it turns out my new shed, which I was told is overbuilt and too big. now has space big enough for an undercover 'dojo' . I never intended that . Sometimes I wonder how much 'I ' run the show and how much the 'dragons' do . When I started work on temple, it was never meant to be a temple , by stage 3 I realised it was going to be . At one time GF came out into yard and yelled at me working up on the crazy structure " What the hell do you think you are doing ? " Me ; " I dont know ! " Well, unless she I mean they are 'meant ' to be there That worked out its own way too, having people is fun, but SOME people ! ...... Aye yi yi ! Let's just say, I am finding great enjoyment and peace without all that 'young fellah fast and crazy fun stuff ' . But I can say I did that, I have the memories and it was fun . As far as moving permanently or staying, I guess its about discerning little twists and turns, 'speed humps', needs for a break (.. how long since you had a 'holiday', ie, a change for a little while ? ) etc with real life changing directions .

Mrs Banhammer now is it ?

< rushes in to help > NO ! Stop ! .... you might get banned ... Let me do that for you .

Good word ! 'PENG ! " should be used more often Mr Nishihira's teacher ( Hohan Soken) would use that 'whippiness (to) deliver explosive shocks of the physical kind to people ' s 'pressure points' .... people that thought they knew what they where doing like @ 6:00 my fav is in training when I can all of a sudden, unexpectedly , get my face right net to theirs , off on the side, as soon as they realise, I then lean a little closer and ..... " Hi there . " If they dot get it I give them a little nod ... if they dont get that, I give a slightly bigger nod and gently bump their nose with my forehead . ... one time, a guy mistook my 'joke' as a hesitation and tried to get a head but in first .... I just nodded and he ; ,< both hands up to his head > " Arrrgh shit ! " < instructor rushes over to him> ; " No no no ... dont try to head but someone on the top of their head! " Then, at the end f training , you can hand them back their wallet . Actually, I really did steal an instructors wallet once He got me to come around his dojo when no one there to teach him some stuff ( for free, which, no doubt he incorporated into his own paid curriculum ) and I noticed he had plastic hand guns on the weapon rack ; " Don;t tell me you been teaching the kids self defence against a hand gun ! " 'Yeah sure, go on ." " Whaaat " "Take one up and I will show you ." "You cant be serious.... well, okay then . " < takes up gun and points it at him from a distance > " Hand over your wallet ." He takes it out and offers it in his hand , "No ... drop it on the ground and then kick it across the ground over to me .. " he does it and I pick it up while holding the 'gun' on him, then motion with it 'Now piss off. " But then he smirks " Its only my 'going out wallet', just $50 in change and no cards . " " Yeah ? " <points gun at his kneecap > " BANG! .... thats for being a smart arse . " Ummmm dude ... its a projectile weapon ... it doesnt have to be used at close quarters Yeah, it doesnt really depict what I meant though ... 'kata' is a weird beast ... is more on my private vids where he is demonstrating actual technique . He was also on a lot about the foot work and stance ; 'base' .... a firm base to 'tie the whip to' , he was always ; step, then grip ground with your toes .. always on about gripping ground with toes. probably comes from his teacher , Mr Soken, who used to be told to train on floating log on pond , sometimes his teacher (Nabe Matsamura, nephew of Bushi ) would jump on the log with him and make him fight him . " These were hard times for the Matsumura family, who now made a living by farming alongside the peasants they once ruled. So training for the young Soken started early in the morning before going out to the fields, and then continued late into the night, after the day’s work had been done. Training was tough, and often brutal in the tradition of the old samurai’s. This training included balance training on slick banana leaves and on different levels and types of ground. Later kata’s and sparring was done on more dangerous floating logs and small rafts." https://www.usadojo.com/hohan-soken-of-matsumura-seito-shorin-ryu-karate/ This old-school style has its origins in white crane ..... we should meet up and 'compare notes' one day

No 'binding' . They are built due to 'appreciation' and to give thanks for bounty provided . They even got me to construct their 'front door' differently I had an open doorway ... I thought, for an entrance . But they wanted a 'baffle entrance' . Anyway , here are some pictures of Yoruba spirit houses The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove,now a UNESCO wrld heritage site , on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess Osun

What's the problem ? people say "Hello" to me, and I answer " Hi " all the time, and it isnt a problem ...thats a friggin' BIG raven ! (

Yeah , I felt that way when I saw the thread had been bumped ... started reading this page , with fond memories ... and then ... Well. who knows ? I certainly dont , after ALL my experiences I cant deny that it is possible . So, just in case ... here is a nice bird to watch ? ' A poor will ' ? Did you mean a ' whippoorwill ' ?