Chopping Wood with Lisl Dennis

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LISL DENNIS and her FISKARS axe split aspen rounds for hours on end at the remote Prajna Mountain Forest Refuge outside of Truchas, New Mexico. "What is your practice?" is a question often asked by Roshi Joan Halifax, Co-Abbot of the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, NM, finder and founder of the Refuge. www.upaya.org. In a wintery video- meditation SPLITTING SILENCE, Lisl evokes another upcountry query: "What's the sound of one axe chopping?" Boundless silence...!

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• Lisl Dennis
• Upaya
• Prajna Mountain Refuge
• Silence
• Meditation
• Zen

[ScanMan1967]

Is that a woman ???? That would explain the unorthodox swing. I've never seen a person wind up to split like throwing a baseball almost.

[dbest1a]

U need the fiskars splitting axe, that looks like the fiskars chopping axe(which I have) the head isn't heavy enough to split some rounds.

[Kaapo73]

Strikes with no force and dangerous position. Axe seems to be ok, buut his legs are in great danger.



[JustinBaker2567]

@pnfcrac I don't know if a wooden mallet would do all that much in this situation. Besides, it's just a stupid fiskars axe, nothing special. A screwed up poll is not the end of the world.

[pnfcrac]

Her technique is fine. It looks a bit unorthodox but she is making clean and accurate splits. If she were to miss then her follow through would go into the ground because she bends her knees. We don't all have to do things the same. People used to punch with just the arms and then people stopped following the rules and used their shoulders, hips and legs to make the punch better.

But I winced when you hit metal to metal though. Get a big wooden mallet please.

[rodfpuncher]

@0597591664 sorry man you're right!

[0597591664]

@rodfpuncher

good skills. listen I don't wanna be mean.

but the way she splits is really dangerous

she swings the axe side ways if she missen the wood she will hit her knees.

and if you hammer on an axe the axe wil change his chape and makes the steel weak

then you destroy you axe.

i am sorry for my englisch i am from Holland.

[rodfpuncher]

is that a fucking woman?

[rodfpuncher]

@vojta360 so what , he has technique

[rodfpuncher]

what are u assholes talking about he has very good skills