Yeah! What they said!

For the past couple of days the Formosa Neijia dude has posted some interesting videos (see below) with some cool movement in them. He took a fair amount of grief from a couple of his commentators about the martial applicability of the motion in the videos. Well, I just wanted to jump in and say I think I see where Formosa dude is coming from in is discussion of the value of freeplay in martial arts. In fact, I posted a similar pair of posts a while back (see below) about contact improvisation and silk reeling. I think he's saying what I was fumbling around with in April. Dojo rat has also posted a couple of really interesting videos on some unusual but still valid and potentially valuable motion exercises.

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If you're interested in motion for its own sake as well as martial applications of motion, I recommend this series of articles. I'd like to hear any comments from anyone who can put these various ideas together into a cohesive thing in their mind.

http://mokurendojo.blogspot.com/2007/04/separating-martial-from-art.html

http://mokurendojo.blogspot.com/2007/04/unfettered-motion.html

http://formosaneijia.com/2007/dont-do-you-got-me/

http://formosaneijia.com/2007/the-value-of-play/

http://dojorat.blogspot.com/2007/06/one-for-grapplers.html

http://dojorat.blogspot.com/2007/06/nice-sun-style-bagua-form.html