Repetition is one of the best teachers around. So most of our kempo forms repeat concepts and move in an SK way. Many people simply don’t believe in the later creations of GM Villari for various reasons. I usually, take the approach that I know less than others and work hard to ‘get it’, and really enjoy fleshing out the lessons in the forms. At times half the battle is finding a lesson to work on…However, TSM is different. This forms opens up and in many ways starts to bring into balance much of the closing down power seen in most of the other forms. The outward motions are not ‘reaching’ although it could easily be misconstruded as reaching. the form works the power of body positioning and taking the space of the attacker like no other i have encountered yet. The big movements focus on using the whole body as a weapon and not only using the whole body to strike with a weapon; and, really opening up your attacker. I am still learning it, yet i can see how it can diversify my fighting immensely. It is a shift from small fighting to large fighting…my goal is to harmonize these two and bring more surprise to my fighting…walk before running, though.
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Marlon,
I think people tend to shy away from some of Villaris later forms because some of the things people find in them are just justifications to feel good about doing the form. When you hear high level Villari people straight up say “I created that form for the tournaments and put no other thought into it” makes me not want to do it. Plus the more I cross train in other systems I start to see where Villari or others trained and then added those pieces from other arts (which is cool by me) I just wish they wouldve added it earlier — c’mon, we dont get a hip throw in until combo 49? by that time most people are to old to want to learn that sort of thing.
Fortunately, I have not encountered such masters in this situation. It is reasonable not to respect such an answer nor the forms in question. However, all forms were created by someone…hopefully someone of skill and intelligent intent. This is how i regard every form i encounter until they prove themselves useless. I am also lucky to have a brown belt in Judo so we introduce throws and falls very early…white belt to learn to fall and we begin throws at yellow. that being said i have heard and understand a great deal about the lack of respect for the Villari system after shodan or nidan. So as not to have myself wasting time and looking like an idiot, i investigated the system very critically. I have found that with the proper emphasis on the basics of alignment, relaxation, technique over force …etc., the SKK variation c by Villari is an incredibly powerful system and i am loving it and will confidentlly match it against any self defense system out there.
good to hear from you Jesse