“Very well constructed”
“It’s marvelous, because it reduces the whole thing to basic principles: three rotation axes, and two directions of rotation about each one – six base leverages; what does it take to bring any one of those leverages to the pathological limit, and beyond? That’s IT. Nothing more needs to be added. From those, everything follows. And the consequence is that you understand everything you are doing in a joint break, everything follows perfectly naturally.
“Without this approach, the whole topic of joint breaking is a horrible grab bag of disconnected techniques that must be memorized and practiced individually. At best a student could learn a small handful of techniques. It would be like, say, the old days of electrical technology in the 19th century: “practical men” disdaining the theory of electricity and magnetism and of course making a complete hash out of everything they tried to do.
“But then again, achieving simplicity in ANY subject, like achieving simplicity of character, is very hard work, and a great achievement.
“Also, the teaching materials are very well constructed. Both the manual and the videos are needed; what the one gives, the other medium could not possibly give. Together, however, they cover all you need.”
Ken Bolland
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
