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One of my long-time students experienced a breakthrough this week. Like everything else trying to learn a deep practice, tai chi players experience sometimes-interminable plateaus followed by sharp leaps in understanding and competence. In this case, the student, a slight man with quick reflexes and strong legs, had a habit of ducking and dodging combat confrontations. I figured it was a habit acquired in his youth, as he told me he was often bullied in the schoolyard. Evading, whether by run... Read More
I have often been confronted with the argument from modern or eclectic martial artists that karate or other traditional martial arts are deficient because they use what I call "blocks" [ie. parries or deflections] as their primary means of defence rather than purely evasion (as in boxing). [In relation to the effectiveness of blocks, note my article "Why blocks DO work".] As I said recently on the fightingarts.com forum, it seems that the above article has at least shifted the deba... Read More
Further to Part 1 of this article... I discuss how tenshin/taisabaki has been used as the foundation of our "embu" or 2-person forms in the article "Muidokan embu: 2 person forms for karate". That tenshin is a vital, yet largely forgotten, skill is something that I highlighted in Part 1 of this article. Yet recently the value of tenshin (and accordingly our embu) has been debated on an online forum (in relation to our gekisai embu in particular). The argument is a considered and s... Read More
ten LAWS OF COMBAT
1. NO SITUATION IS IDEAL.
2. BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL RANGES. 3. WHEN SKILL IS EQUAL, CONDITIONING PREVAILS. 4. BE AWARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT AND USE IT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE. 5. THE SIMPLIER THE BETTER. 6. RANDOM TACTICS ARE THE MOST DIFFICULT TO COUNTER. 7. ALWAYS BE READY TO DEAL WITH WEAPONS. 8. MAKE NOTE OF ALL AVAILABLE EQUALIZERS. 9. IN COMBAT YOU MUST HAVE THREE THINGS IN YOUR FAVOR: NERVE, SKILL, LUCK.... Read More
"Taisabaki" means body movement. Most schools however use this term to refer to a type of body shifting the goal of which is to move in relation to the attacker both to avoid a blow and gain a position of advantage. Certainly that is how we used the term “taisabaki” when I was first taught in my "home" dojo. However, translated literally the term “taisabaki” or “sabaki” might mean any kind of body movement – including stepping up and down the floor in zenkutsu (forward stan... Read More
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