Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Scan - Gosoku

Val Mijailovic, 7th dan Gosoku Ryu teaches scanning techniques.

Monday, September 27, 2010

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Venice and its masks *** 1 / 2 Stories



September is beautiful, it delights us. It is rustic and urban. Gray and blue. Rainy and sunny. Like all of us, he is clothed in fanciful colors. We walk with a friend, we laughed our differences. On returning, we watched for the umpteenth time the movie Farinelli directed by Gerard Corbiau. Could not help but compare it to the novel by Marc Ory Zanipolo, we are talking about here.

The action takes place in Venice in the eighteenth century. Lavish and cruel, this past time propels us into a theatrical setting. The old painter Niccolo Guardi dies. His brother, Francesco Guardi, landscaping, too old, and his son, priest, awake. Later, the son recalls his father's promise to tell the story of "Being, the Double. "Francesco contemplates Venice city amphibian, "Like a miracle every day. . Remembering the request of his son, he wondered about "this unusual episode Venetian. "The morning sun warming, he falls asleep against a pillar and dreams ...

The parable fits during the sixty-first year of the eighteenth century. A gondola "to the roof half-barrel" enters the Teatro San Benedetto "by a lock which closed immediately behind. "Every night for two months, the arena again. Superstitious, the Venetian people hear voices "who repeated melodic and sublime operatic arias, motets and cantatas. " We will know by a spy devoted to the cause of the inquisitor red, Alessandro Di San Paoli, these voices belong to the twins unmatched Giovanni and Paolo. Both are actually Siamese twins, bound by the sacrum and woe to those who would know their identity. Whispers that their mother is a French aristocrat, died in childbirth. The opening night performance, the magic of their voices and their bodies deformed lead to a riot. Their abnormality class twins among the monsters, but the sublime range of their voice dazzles and anesthesia until the people drama. It will be grafted onto the ardent love with a young Giovanni soprano soloist, Maddalena, protected by Alessandro Di San Paoli, who had discovered ten years at the Hospice for terminally ill, whose primary mission was to treat syphilis, "which turned many poor orphaned by outstanding musicians. "At a final concert, they will be devoured by an irrepressible passion. In great secrecy, they marry, will separate until, mysteriously disappears Maddalena. Giovanni and Paolo, condemned for murder, will be tortured in the public square. As it was de rigueur in the dark ages, a miracle occurs that will divert the people of the execution of two men : The ship of the envoy of King Louis XV of France anchored the morning of their killing. "He was horrified by the spectacle [s] the place and Zanipolo ribbed. However, he went to pay his respects to the Doge [...] "The talks will commit later, the crowd was disinterested monster and sinful Maddalena, suddenly reappeared, to admire the sea and the Bellerophon," ship forefront "of where the count down René-Antoine Royer of the polm Hargençon," followed by his suite. "

In fact, the story would be classic if it came down to the love between Giovanni and Maddalena. Unable to relate the extreme beauty of the scenes depicting Venice, superbly portrayed by author Marc Ory, we look at the complexity of boorish people who governed the city. Between the ferocity of the Church and State, it was not good to be born different. Guided by illiteracy and fear of hell, the people are resigned to the inhuman demands of the Inquisition. Is not two rival families who, to gratify their ambition, will judge the fate of the twins? Is not that the famous surgeon Carlotti, Padua, who, brandishing his wig and his finger, they were crying banish pygopages, term which are designated by the Siamese welded lumbar vertebrae. The crowd there is not hysterical. "She tore his mask and wolves were trampled. To allay this physical phenomenon, a fishmonger, a devotee of the church di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, the nicknamed: Zanipolo contraction of their first names. Banished by men, Giovanni and Paolo will have little to fear from their barbarous ignorance, they are authenticated descendants of a French aristocrat mother.

Roman led masterfully by Marc Ory. In writing that is both dynamic and gentle, he masterfully describes the manners of the eighteenth century outrageous grouped around Venice, besieged by the inquisitors. Cleverly, overflowing with humor, the author narrates the life that formed the customary cosmopolitan society of a city drawn by excess. Many short chapters we delight, we read them without tiring. The conversation exchanged between an alchemist and an old English instructing the reader on the various pigments used by the painters of old, welcomed us. Giovanni Maddalena and receiving, each in turn, a course of sexual anatomy, Paolo thundering an erotic poem before his execution, all of us lush sensuality tickles! Marc Ory concluded this historical tale, freely structured on a quirky note that seems to affirm that the destiny of men never accomplished alone. We need our duality, our inconsistencies to justify our actions and our actions, decide between good and evil that hangs over us, like two brothers fighting enemies, too unable to separate.


Zanipolo, Marc Ory
editions Triptych, Montreal, 2010, 134 pages

Monday, September 13, 2010

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September. The month is preferred. The month of the year is sufficient in itself. It is no longer quite the summer not quite yet fall. Month independent sports with the sun and rain. Insinuates itself between the red and orange tones. A book in hand, we can only contemplate the nature changes slowly. A little bewildered by the molting of the landscape, it is also reading the news of Vincent Thibault, Purity.

The title story introduces us to a violent underground world, which is the Tokyo subway. We are witnessing the rat race of a man responsible for the sarin gas attack killing countless people. The author addresses the offense, he described the pathetic condition of the victims, when suddenly a unexpected happens ... Narrative A new air we take a deep lesson in humility. Ajim-sensei, sixty-six, "the Chinese gymnastics taught in the basement of a small local church. A morning of great storm, waiting for his students, he "laid eyes" on the old electric organ. After discovering a book about the joy of playing this instrument, he decided to improvise and every week, he practiced his "little directory" ... A year later, going to the chapel, he can only see the flames ravaging the place where he spent so many hours serene ... What will the teacher learned that the fire started "following an electrical problem with the organ. ? We particularly appreciated the story entitled animated. An old man who visits his brother, stopping before a window of Chanel, located on the chic Avenue Louise. He is fascinated by a woman, eyes watching the clouds. The next day a "great blond in full luxury" stands beside her. Every day, the old Japanese Avenue Louise back to contemplate the motionless woman in the window, the blonde at his side to whom he felt a fleeting jealousy. Then after making a symbolic dream, he noticed the feet of the woman a "gold plate" on which the store asks an employee ... About in the shark teeth, we read the letter that a young Japanese wrote to his father, he explains how he became acquainted with Myriam, his future wife. After some adventures, the piece of a futile and broken into two tiny object has united in a harmonious affection. Other disturbing news, Naomi. Leaving his elder brother, Masaru, surprised by a violent thunderstorm, took refuge in an abandoned tower. While contemplating the architecture of the place, Naomi, a young black woman appears before him, leaving him puzzled. How is it coming in the tower? An aura of mystery around her fleet that will change Masaru until the denouement.

These new texts bring us back to the author's special talent to be savored from book to book. But in this collection, is not that the rub? The press release informs us, and we quote: "The challenge was launched Vincent Thibault with this project was to write a book that could be signed by a Japanese." Even if these texts are full of unspoken a mental shake distinguishing characters, the illusion did not work. It would have taken more votes stammering, timid whispers, shadows moving, especially more evocative silences to create a Japanese feel, as we see in the work of Yukio Mishima, Yoko Ogawa, Aki Shimazaki that. It is not enough to dress up fictitious creatures of Asian names for impregnating a culture so removed from ours. The last story, The walker, out of context, seems most appropriate to reproduce the good intentions of Vincent Thibault. The invigorating style, inimitable author, should be at the service of a literature of its own and not wanting to distinguish a civilization six thousand years.

However, we recommend reading the new impetuous to enjoy the talent of Vincent Thibault, originality punchy. Tactics of its themes, its recalcitrant actors that inspire so beautifully.


Purity, Vincent Thibault
editions of the North, a collection Hammock
Sillery, 2010, 152 pages

Thursday, September 9, 2010

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Ryu Kata Kata

I found in the book of Master Kenji Tokitsu a bookmark that I feared I had lost. Raphael, who had crafted for me, had written a few words what it suggested a kata:

A light air
Flexibility gestures
Words hands
Without
Stop
Reset
As a perpetual self-presence.

Thanks to Raphael.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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- Kenji Tokitsu

"(...) any aspect of kata is based on the worldview that we have already mentioned, where perfection is within reach of man, where the border between the human and the divine is labile.
In sum, the kata is the practical form, transmitted, a technique of transformation of body and mind. (...) The represents advancement in the path to perfection, with the idea that travel the path itself is the goal. "
" When performing the kata, the depth and significance achieved and experienced does not depend only on the apparent degree of perfection, but also the intensity and scope of the mental state during this time.
criteria perfectly gestures vary depending on the degree of control those who appreciate it. In each area, this perfection is hierarchical with respect to technical efficiency which she testifies. (...) Sometimes a development may seem like a failure or a flaw in the eyes of outside observers in the area worked. Conversely, when the presentation of the kata is done in public - as is the case with karate for half a century - a change takes place in the showmanship and the sequences are beginning to include unnecessary movements but appealing to an audience just learning. "
Extracts from the book of Master Kenji Tokitsu The kata. The author explains the historical sources and sociological concept of kata and it covers the dimensions (technical, communication, philosophy ,...) in a process of seeking perfection in martial arts, flower arranging, the tea ceremony, or even that of seppuku.