I'm quite pleased with the name of this blog. It's about an image that came to mind in my kenjutsu class a while ago when I was trying to figure out how to rise from Seiza without getting in my own way. A lot of our movments in the style I study are based around letting gravity move us rather than using our muscles. We move by releasing our muscles rather than by contracting them and alowing ourselves to "fall" into a new shape and position.

Trying to aply this same feeling to rising of the ground, I had the mental image of gravity being reversed and of falling skyward. It probably doesn't make much sense but it has alowed me, in small steps to be more relaxed in my movments and it's a very pleasant image.

This Blogs a little bit like that. I generally don't write much because I have a hard time getting out of my own way, so this is an attemt to let my mind fall out of my head and into the sky if you will.