Luke Barbin
Saturday, October 30, 2010, at the PalaFijlkam of Ostia, the physical presence of in situ Augustine Lasaracina sensei, I received my "first" Dan Jujitsu. I say "first" because I intensely that it was not the only "first" but the first of I hope many others do not aspire to some degree to make a sterile "collection", but to continue a path of serious study and personal growth: study that has characterized my life since the age of six when I started practicing Judo.
I think each of us to seek and find martial arts something completely subjective and unique to himself, but wonderfully, as objective, or encoded, is equal and common to other generating interaction and social growth. This is how common experiences and the like that everyone internalizes in a unique manner, interpersonal and different. This is for me the essence of martial arts: growth, uniformity, Comparison, Recovery and Adaptation, Change and Re-synthesis in a continuum that is reflected systematically in what has already been lived and / or representing them ever learned as new or rediscovered.
I approached the Judo as a child, grazie a mio Padre che mi portò sul tatami senza tuttavia averlo Lui mai calpestato, non sono quindi un “figlio d’arte” in tal senso, tuttavia quell’esperienza che mi accompagnò fino all’adolescenza, caratterizzò la mia vita ed il mio modo di pensare e vivere in modo così significativo che a trent’anni, dopo essermi laureato in Educazione Fisica ed in Scienze Motorie e dopo alcune irripetibili esperienze militari svolte sia in Marina che nel Corpo Militare della Croce Rossa a cui tutt’oggi appartengo, decisi di riavvicinarmi al Judo, scoprendo fortunosamente il Jujitsu proprio grazie al mio primissimo maestro di Judo Rudy Figari: fu lui infatti, a condurmi tra le abili mani del sensei Ignatius Olla: my first real Jujitsu sensei.
I can say, after almost ten years of practice of Jujitsu, that the same positive atmosphere that I felt the first day as a child of six years on the tatami in judo, after all these years, was identical to that found adult in Jujitsu and the same feeling I can relive every night once wore keikogi and crossed the threshold of the tatami , found old friends and new, I take that same sense of belonging, culture, harmony and grace that characterizes these wonderful arts.
I love Judo: I bring the soul and the tangible signs of wonderful memories. I find phenomenal Judo, biomechanically ruthless, a triumph of physics applied to human biomechanics. My experiences childish judo players have characterized so much of my personal motor patterns of movement that is still present while practicing Jujitsu I happen to "think" judo players in an automatic and unconscious ..
Col Judo in my heart, I found in Jujitsu something even more unique and potentially "lethal", a sort of "enhanced Judo", I apologize for this judoka to my definition, but I can not find better words to describe a martial art, Jujitsu is one of the "empty" and "full" at the same time, where the concepts of "near" and "far" can become very relevant, where a technique or an arm bar take an infinite number of small and large variations, combinations and applications.
Clearly, at the beginning, these kinds of rational "variability" modulation can generate a bit of disorientation, being not at all intuitive for the novice. This is normal: when you learn something new, it is hard to do and it is natural to claim that once mastered a concept it is forever a little 'how to ride, but everything does not happen in Jujitsu. Jujitsu In what is believed to have learned today can be repeated oggi stesso, domani, dopodomani, tra un mese, tra un anno, dieci anni, in modo apparentemente simile e diverso da ciò che si era presunto di aver ormai assodato e depositato in memoria. Il sistema nervoso, con alla sua plasticità, codificati alcuni schemi di movimento complessi è in grado di apprenderne ed elaborarne magnificamente subito dei nuovi!
Nulla nel Jujitsu è immanente o lasciato al caso, tutto diviene: te stesso, il dojo , gli altri jutsuka , gli stessi sensei : tutto cresce con Te e si trasforma. Ogni singola cosa è in assoluto movimento! Tutto ciò, per me, poco dopo essermi ridestato dallo shock iniziale ha fatto sì I have begun, step by step, to apply the philosophy of Jujitsu and martial arts in my daily life, work, family and everything I hope I can always accompany.
I dedicate this to my friends my first Dan jutsuka : camaraderie with people that I consider like brothers, just like in the great family of the Italian Armed Forces to which I am proud to belong to. The warning that I will share with them is this: "If I did I succeed you too, then insist: Do not give up!" As always says sensei Olla Ignatius: "Meanwhile, these activities must be maintained throughout life, when poi non sei più in grado di fare le capriole allora, forse, puoi anche smettere!”
Concludendo, ritengo che sia nella perseveranza che il Jujitsu trova la sua ragion d’essere: la stessa graduazione, lenta, progressiva, inesorabile, capace di portarti non dico a “sapere” ma certamente a “Saper Essere” percependo un’arte che giunge a piccoli frammenti e solo dopo decine di anni di pratica la dice davvero lunga sulla differenza esistente tra le arti marziali tradizionali, militari, frutto di millenni di anni di studio, codificate, pedagogicamente rigide, didatticamente “spietate” e le altre discipline alla “moda del momento”, che, seppur tecnicamente valide, promettono in tempi troppo ristretti, troppo concisi di imparare il “metodo dei metodi”! Queste ultime non sbagliano idealmente il “metodo”, a mio parere sbagliano concettualmente il messaggio! L’innovazione è sempre positiva perché rappresenta un forte stimolo di ricerca ma preoccupandosi troppo di un avversario, visto solo come nemico, si finisce per allontanarsi solo da sé stessi perdendo il concetto chiave della filosofia nipponica che il vero nemico da combattere è colui che alberga dentro di noi.
Ringraziamenti
Voglio ringraziare tutti gli amici “ samurai ” del dojo di Recco a cui vorrei I dedicate this Dan that I was encouraged to go to Rome and I applauded the return, but especially want to thank, even if there are no adequate words, the sensei Lasaracina Augustine, where frills style, figures of speech and words of appreciation would not serve, as well as these would be useless or not taken, scratched his personal style dry and firm to serve as the noble qualities and quality.
Without him I would not have done, even if it had not pushed me to physically get on the tatami , I would have simply returned home without even trying ... In fact, some tests, both in the dojo , as in life should not be "groped": they support or do not say!
To thank the person who after having "grown and endured," academically for almost ten years, I was physically accompanied to Rome, taking care of "red tape" and bureaucratic federal after self-assigned role as well as personally uke, connoting so my exam with a weight of "political" conquered the field with years of hard work, but only words are not enough facts.
THANKS TO ALL OF YOU!
Luke Barbin, I Dan Black Belt Jujitsu - Pro Recco Judo and Jujitsu
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