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SEICHUSEN AND EMBUSEN

centerline and
demonstration
line

AJ van Dijk - Naoki Ishiakwa - Nobuyuki Nukina during seminar Romania 2007

AJ van Dijk - Naoki Ishikawa - Nobuyuki Nukina during seminar Romania 2007.

what is seichusen

Imagine the body to be the Earth. The core of the earth is magma, this is not on the surface, but this is inside. The tanden, is also inside the body. So, the seichusen is not a line in the front of the body, but the seichusen is the line inside the body. Going straight through the tanden. Therefore, the seichusen changes constantly as you move around ukemi.

Let's say central axis.

meaning

The litteral meanings are seichusen: correct center line and embusen: demonstration line. The seichusen is the center line of your own body and the center line of the opponents body, while the embusen is the line from your seichusen to your opponents seichusen. Therefore in combat it is of great importance to protect your seichusen at all times. Move off the embusen, creating a new embusen, protect your own seichusen on the way. The new embusen that is created should be good for you and bad for the opponent. Good for you and bad for the opponent are two different things.

Bad for the opponent would be such a position, that he is not able to hit you properly without having to move or correct the body. If the opponent has to move or correct his body this will be either a large connected movement or 2 movements, which is even worse. Anyway, it means that his seichusen should not be pointing towards yours.

Good for you is also like the above, but there is more. Off course it is good if his seichusen is not pointing towards yours, if you stand for example at the side of your opponent, but does this mean that your are infact in a good position? The point is, that you have to be in such a postion that you can immediately his a vital point of his body. There is only a target if this is an actual target.

change seichusen

One can manipulate seichusen, or in other words, change seichusen without the opponent noticing it. If you do junzuki, the seichusen remains the same. If you would do the junzuki in stages, like some teachers teach to beginners, it could be to move the back foot next to the front foot and from there advancing forward. In that case, seichusen changes. That is not good, for junzuki.

However, one can use a change of seichusen in ayumi ashi (or any movement) to enter the opponents ma-ai safely.

 

Ashihara - seichusen

Mr. Ashihara shows seichusen in JKFan Magazine.

My point is, that you have to regard correct technique not only to the single person who executes the technique, but also how that the person applies the technique to his opponent. So this includes the waza, shikaku, vital points, ma-ai and the position of you and your opponent.

To protect the seichusen is to understand all the imaginary lines from your opponent to you and vice versa.

 

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