Nungali

certainly ... here you go : ​

Yum .... I like cookies and cakes . I will even go to the local Country Woman's Association Bake-off Competition. If you go there, after the judging, there are all these old fruitcakes and tarts ... that will let you taste their cookies and cakes .

they arent good in the morning, best to milk them in the late afternoon

You guys should try some Australian Kangaroo cheese .

will I be able to post today without the text coming out in reverse ? Looks like it (no, I didnt do that on purpose ) . ... You should have gone to the ancient scotch whisky distillery my brother was telling me about - big old castle, deep cellars, giant old vats of rare whisky , the guy goes "Since it is a small group today, I would like to offer you all a small taste of our family's greatest treasure ... this whisky is ( blah blah blah ) ... my brother starts sipping it and he says it was glorious .... then a voice from the back in a strong American accent " Do you have any coke I can mix with mine ? "

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http://malibells.com.au/wp-content/uploads/IMGP2901-1024x597.jpg The ' crack'​ ! oot ereht nwod og ot stnaw esl everything eproblem is​, niaga oOh great ! here we g​ ​ I give up

No karl ... just no ! I did that once . Went caving with 2 other idiots. The first thing they decided to do was to split up. ? It was first caving experience and it just didn't seem right to me. So I didn't go far. too wondered how dark it would be if I turned my light off. <click> yep .... pretty dark (of course it is, you idiot ! ) <click > ..... < click click click click > Ohhh great . Now what happens without a light ? So I thought it best to just sit there. Someone will come along eventually. They did. I said "hello' and they just about jumped out of their skin ( as they had not noticed me) "Sorry, my light broke ... look" <click> light goes on . I think I better stay on the surface of the crack .

I know, that's why I referred to myself as like a rat. But like a lot of others, I somehow feel special and exempt . I am special .... like everyone else ....hang on, I have a saying I thought up years ago - gotta remember it ; I believe I should be entitled to the lifestyle that I believe I deserve . - not that I 'deserve' anything particularly, I think it should apply to all. Every person should have a good healthy non- slaving lifestyle. ( I know that is highly impractical , its just a 'belief'. ) But here is the thing , and it took me a looooooooooong time to learn this ; its just the way of things for me , the other way doesn't work and was full with difficulties, as soon as I dropped out, the Universe showered me with abundance. Once I accepted that it kept happening .... I got free land, a house for $8000 .... a car given to me , when I did need $$$$ an easy job that was fun to do.

I live in a crack . A big crack in the earth with moss growing in it. That is what the valley I live in looks like from high altitude. I am smaller than the weeds and moss .... maybe one of the ants. Like the moss and grass and ants in the sidewalk crack, I settle where I feel most comfortable, less threatened, where I can snatch food and shelter .... or where I can. I found a good spot in the crack and I have fought off the other critters that tried to take it from me. Basically I am an opportunist. I will hide in the crack and live as best I can and live off what I can .... a bit like a rat in the wall. Sorry about that , all you workers and tax payers and hard sloggers for the system , but I just cant live like that. Every morning, down the coast in the big city 1000s of 1000s of people leave their little concrete boxes before dawn and file off in the noisy clanky long metal snakes that take them into the termite hive, and work all day and come back on the metal snake ( sometimes 90 mins a day ) to get back to their box after dark. Nah . I cant do it .... I tried, but it started to eat my soul. So I ran off . Its a lot better down in the crack

Is any one here familiar with Iaido ? Specifically the Sagao - its usage mostly . ( And when it is tied from sword scabbard to belt, )

That's fine Jim, no need for any apology (and thanks for the sagao info ) , I was actually confused if you meant aikido instructor or 'karate' instructor. (you should read what the others here say to me ) Still , I feel fine about being 'challenged' ..... as long as its 'friendly' . Same teacher hosted a sword workshop with Dave Brown (also akikai ) . Dave was a totally different kettle of fish, he cross trained all over the place and tested his sword and aikido skills in other clubs and styles , eliminted what was bad, and developed what worked (and borrowed and stole techniques) . Like I did . and that other guy too ... what was his name .... Bruce ... something ? . Anyway, this instructor, it was his first adventure into 'cross training' - testing his skill outside his style . That creates a steep learning curve .

yes ... I did years of proper and ettiquette Japanese martial arts ..... I didnt mind that ... a bit like doing a tea ceremony. Now I have graduated to a more practical version ( original sensai was personal bodyguard to Okinawan king , so a very real form, but the passed down tradition is 'Matsamura Seito ' - Matsamura family tradition , another fighting real form but for family defence , in the home etc, so not as 'sacrificial' as 'temple style' . Unfortunately the last family member and teacher Kosei Nishihira had no heir, so the tradition is finished. No, it isn't really like Mune Zakushi ... you come in to attack with sword, cutting straight down, the other moves in ,aikido style, to intercept and redirect your descending hand ... mid step , you step the stepping foot quickly back, shifting your centre line back and cut down, you have retreated about 2 feet, and now instead of the other person being able to reach your hands , arms or sword handle, their reach is only to the blade, and you cut their hands arms sliding back a half shuffle step. Sorry, there is no youtube . No, training is very chaotic and disorganised ... that's the issue . A visiting instructor from interstate roused him on it - nothing is collated, named or instructed properly (I offer instruction outside training hours to others to help them ) . Teacher assumes all have a black belt level, students and beginners drop out in confusion like flies . Experienced people like it and find it new and illuminating (the stuff he does know ) ... he just aint good at teaching ! It happens . I too cant do a lot of the empty hand - shorinryu grapples, locks, twists breaks throws .... I got artheritis now ... I cant fly through the air with a sword, roll and come up ready to fight, like I used to .... also on a hip replacement surgery waiting list. I can still do a bit, and help with instruction , innovation and common sense . The 'old fella' still got a trick up his sleeve ... the young are still wary I am not sure what you mean by missed the point of martial arts ? The point in my tradition was / is fighting .... stop them before they kill or hurt you or family . There is no 'sport aspect' . If I could post a vid here (I don't even know if this will post ) I would post the origins of Judo movie. The part where the Okinawans challenge the very proper, polite and clean Japanese Judoki .... the Okinawans are unclean, dishevelled and quiet mad ... of course . They shock everyone by declaring, before the challenge "We do not bow ! " ( all in dojo looked shocked and mutter to each other " The do not bow ! ? ! ??? " ) That's the thing I like about martial arts , one CAN prove an argumentative point ! ... or fail too . I am quiet open to being asked to prove my point in a live demo Doing that and achieving success or failure and learning from that, IMO is what it is about, on a real level (but I do appreciate the 'artistic side' ) .

Anyway, there are 20 bow draw, attack counter, bow, sheath techniques. 5 'impolite attack; defences ( no bowing, surprise attacks, defending with the sword sheathed in scabbard and in right hand, counters against 'stopping the draw' , etc ) and a range of empty hand defences against sword attacks Like aikido ones but not as 'nice' .

Nope ... cant paste and post here

[ Sorry for lapse, I have been unable to get on this site ( Daobums offline notice ...) I cleared the cache as I used to have to, but that doesnt work ...... got in through the back door today. ] Michael, yes I have seen it before .... there are also instructional videos that show how to attach, drape and ,yes, tuck it up under the Hakama tie string ( and the one I saw tucked a loop under and a loop through that to make a quick release knot ) . Thanks for response JD. You suggest the only sensible usage so far - to tie back the sleaves, (in a loo around each shoulder and crossed at the back ... like a figure 8 at the back ? ) . This makes sense. Holding in the right hand with equal 1/3 of the cord held in the fingers ( when being 'polite' ) ..... put through the belts on the right side, ready for a draw, with the cord handy ... handy to tie the sleeves back when accepting a challenge . But what did one do about the sleeves for an ' impolite ' or surprise attack ? And why attach it to the sword and not the outfit ? I suppose some ceremonial or ritual reason. Sometimes its tied on a complex knot on the sword. In any case I will go for the sleeve answer. And since we don't train in hakama, I consider it defunct for us. I am having 'trouble' with the instructor, suggesting crazy stuff "All you guys need to have .... one of those cords tied to your swords ... you < ie. me > look it up and find out about it. Right ..... last Saturday I told him 'No we don't need to use that . ' he is good at what he does know about ... but the rest <rolls eyes> . The background is Kobudo not Iaido , one weapon we train with is bokken . We do a formal draw and bow and bow and re sheath at the end of an exercise 'kata' or a bout. Instructor has tried to make this 'iaido like' .... I want nothing to do with that, we are training in a park in t-shirts and track pants for goodness sake ! The other week he had people bring in metal swords ( I would not call them ' real swords ' ) and were practising a type of unco-ordinated wild pack thing . Its hard to assess my learning curve. Teacher claims various sword info , but I know he was taught it by an aikikai aikidoist. I was too years back. Any 'style' I have is based on what I learnt from Shorin Ryu and kobudo being inserted into the sword work. I seem to be good at 'breaking out the box', teacher seems stuck in it ..... actually, I hacked apart a box for him last week that he was stuck in ..... ( a bit of back ground ; he has instructed ne to write a book / manual, naming and numbering all our techniques for all the weapons, and empty hand ! .gnorw tsuj dna dab yllaer era yeht sa ni tup ot tnaw tnod I emos .... ​ Great ! Here we go again .... been having heaps of probs with this site lately ! ... some (techiques) I don't want put in as they are really bad and just wrong ( we work by actually trying things in applications and eliminating and adapting them if they are not really practical . But, like many martial arts - its full of impractical stuff. Classic example was the 'box I cut him out of ' - a technique where the attacker does a slash across your belly as you are standing 45 % on, you supposedly turn hip back so you are square on, allowing the others sword tip to pass and as it passes to the right of your stomach turn hips back . He even stands there, gets the other to stand there and places their sword tip on his stomach to make them have the right distance ... WTF ? typical 'instructor trick'. Anyway, he goes "You left out this one" and demonstrates. I go "I know, I left ot out on purpose." Him "Oh you forgot that one? Its like this." and goes to demonstrate it for the umpteenth time with me. So I ripped the sword across his stomach (just by leaning forward 1/2 an inch. He shuffles, resets his stance and places the bokkan 'blade' back in front of his stomach ​... "Now try again." So I smashed him across his ribs ! ...... "okay ... we will stop doing that one " So, its not Iaiado , its more like sword play / brawling ...... that is , what ever keeps you 'alive' and developed by trial and error with a kobudo background. So we will go bokkan against jo, eku, sai, empty hand etc. Also I am able to be unrestricted like I would in an aikido class .... do it this way, or that way, 'accept the technique' this way or that way .... man, if you try to take my sword and do it wrong, I will not 'allow' I will 1/2 step back mid attack * and slice their hands off ! *something I learnt from Rohi kata , that instructor taught me , yet he never thought to apply it to sword work ... ​ Not at all like Iaido practice eh ? Also in a bout I am liable to stick my sword in the ground and flick dirt up into your eyes, kick my sandal off and launch it at your face while attacking, force onto uneven ground and obstacles, get the sun in their eyes etc. I finished off Aikido instructor like that. Of course, during training I would have to behave. But sometimes he would keep me back when the others had left ; "See if you can really kill me with one of your techniques" and rushes me, I casually step aside and do a one hand lunge gaining distance, he manages to stop in time, sword half way down, with my swords tip sideways between his ribs over the heart " Ohhh ... that would have done it ." he said . he had lever seen a one handed lunge before ! They ' don't do that' in aikido . Anyway ... here are the bokken 'kata' I have developed or collated that we practice;

I have a Iaido thread ? I tried to make a new post and it wouldn't do it, been having trouble ever since and locked out for 2 says ? ? ? It actually worked ? (goes off to find it ) ....

Dont put him off .... remember I have asked about the use of the Sagao in Iaido .

Cain and Abel of course

No , if your steer straight up, it will force you down harder on to the road and now for something completely different ; Mostly addressed to Junko, Michael and anyone else who knows about Japanese culture, in this case , Iaido. What use is the Sageo for , when it is tied with one end to the scabbard and the other to the belt ?

http://advancedcameratechnologies.com.au/libragallery.html that's what I was trying to do .... all the above should be in one post. I am going to my other forum ... it works perfectly with this computer . (now its saying "site does not support property or set position .... and I cant post in tech difficulties )

( thought I was on a roll then, but it stopped me posting again ) .... and also attracted every 'buy this car advertiser' in the country .... who all wanted helicopter tracking shots .... mates made a heap out of it Ahhh crap , now I get this when I post a link address "The site says ; 'error - invalid argument " ​

maybe the glitch cleared ? Anyway, was trying to say, that honda pic reminded me of work , commute to work on the Triumph and spend all day working on a Honda 90 step through That road looks sterile as it was pretty new when pic taken. The old one kept having to be closed from landslides, so they built it out from the cliff. Attracted every motorcyclist in the state !

until I tried that ..... things are real messed up for me here now ???