Ya but...
looks pretty good to me for pre-ufc stuff.
(Origami Itto:)You perfect your own structure and that allows you to influence their structure.
I don't feel it's completely necesarry to "connect" to someone's center. You can work on a limb or a finger and the center is going to go along for the ride.
Bao wrote:(Origami Itto:)You perfect your own structure and that allows you to influence their structure.
I don't feel it's completely necesarry to "connect" to someone's center. You can work on a limb or a finger and the center is going to go along for the ride.
Li Yaxuan:
"Even before physical contact, with a single glance you join contact with the opponent or partner, establishing a firm connection with him. Adherence can begin even at this stage, prior to physical contact. This is important because when you are working in a more intensive competitive or combative mode, if you depend on physical contact to start your adherence, that’s too late and you’re going to be too slow to exploit any advantage of timing or positioning."
If you are concerned only about your own positioning without regard to the other, maybe you will be able to withstand a push. But in a real confrontation, you have no idea what the other person will do. You need to care for the distance and angle to the opponent even before he advance to an attack. ... This is why I won't buy the attitude of being in rule of one's own center is enough. Everything in a combat happens in a relationship between two physical bodies, contact or not contact.
oragami_itto wrote:But are you necessarily connecting to a "center"? It's a matter of semantics at a certain point.
... If you don't connect in some way then you can't affect your opponent, connect can mean a lot of things other than "to the center"
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