Off-balance with Purpose
It’s sort of weird, the timing of things. I was planning to write a note entitled “Balance and Force Projection”, sharing some of my thoughts on center-of-gravity, as it relates to karate-do. On Tuesday, I attended a motivational training seminar (ho-hum, I thought)…which turned out to be an extremely entertaining session, taught by a professional juggler, unicyclist, drummer, etc entertainer, who also taught some profound lessons in life. He also gave some short references to his church and pastor and talked about spiritual growth being one of the five major areas we balance in life. What struck me was that his lessons centered around the very subject I was planning to share, except where I was thinking about Balance vs Force Projection, he was talking about Balance vs being Off-Balance with a Purpose. He talked about learning to balance on a 6-foot high unicycle, then learning to move where ever one wanted to go, by leaning in the direction one aimed at. He also talked about the intracacies of juggling 3, then 4, then 5 objects and the necessary change-ups in patterns to do so. He talked about faith in taking risk, added to the responsibilities of due diligence prior [...]