Wanderingdragon wrote:If you are late and he does get you off balance and leaning back, you can regain your center by stepping back with your rear leg , sitting on his upper thigh, and rolling into his center, transferrring your weight forward while circling your arms upward,forcing him to readjust and affectively nillifying his original intent.
the force should be applied into your dead angle. If you are 'got' properly stepping back with your free leg won't work - also you won't be able to step across far enough, you are off balance, leaning back and your front leg is blocked (try it) - Remember, Just like 'you' can adjust so can the one applying the force.. If your dead angle is being attacked - and is kept there (adjusted), stepping back wo'nt help you at all. Because the angle you need to recover is not straight out behind you - it is "supposed" to be diagonal (perpendicular) through you - that is the line between your legs.
Stepping across won't help you if the force is applied in the proper direction and adjusted as needed. You're in a bad position and stepping won't get you out of that bad position you described.
Let's say you are standing in a regular stance facing forward one foot ahead of the other.. for my description to be clear.
I can see a kind of spinning around will entail - a very likely outcome if you step in and across behind you. Most likely "you" still ending up on the floor first.. because your balance was caught.
Just my opinion anyways.. also people are talking about an armbar counter 0- doesn't Dr. Yang also have an armbar there across his chest. If his man goes for his arm, maybe he'll have a go at his arm first eh.
It's all very well talking aboutthis and that counters, but it does gets silly in the end. After all there are counters to counters aren't there..
meh