Right. You are not demonstrating what you're talking about "working around resistance," whether in real time or not. Your attacker only shows "static tension." He freezes his arms as you bend over then step to the side. He is not "responding to what you are doing," as you explain is part of your definition of "resistance..."1.30 "depending on what stage you are wroking at. First stage, partners are relaxed and not so responsive."
So that's where we start, stage one. I am also putting this into the context of the "technique testing" I mention. Got to start somewhere.
Then I talk through the idea of working around resistance as I slowly show it. Stage One. Then we move on.
Principle of Action and Reaction — For every action, there is a reaction. Every time you take a step, the attacker gets to take a step. You want your technical ability to stand alone, not relying on being faster or physically stronger than your opponent. For example, you don’t want to rely on doing five actions to the attacker’s one action. (Knowledge, understanding and skill helps in working within this principle.)Right, which is why I also mentioned timing. Fill the gaps in the opponent's movement, cut down on his response time, etc. Why would I give him a chance to step?
That means good attribute training. Best technique in the world is useless if your timing is off. So, Stage Two we start working with movement 6.56.
Then, at 7.50 "So of course you need to start training that in different ways, get into your sparring and testing phases." See earlier video on sparring for how we approach that
No. The Systema instructor is talking about and demoing principles. At 3:24 in one movement, he pins the attacker's arms, steps back, unbalances the opponent (using cross & lever principles), then takes him down.Yep, and that's fine, all good. But his clip is called "Systema: How to defend against frontal choke?" and mine isn't. And isn't he working the same way at first, his partner is not responding, as we are obviously in "explanation mode?" I don't understand why this seems so hard to grasp for some, isn't this how we learn anything? Or are people randomly attacking their instructor mid-instruction?
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