ors wrote:Dear Sprint!
As Chris wrote Ushiro's system is totally based on "timing and pre-emptive ability". As he said it is about "catch the initiative" of the opponent.
I have to add I have watched his DVD's and I am not "totally convinced".
The second vid at .57 shows Ushiro demonstrating this "pre-emptive ability" but look how he rehearses it first. The attacker attacks 2 times (slowly and to the same spot)
before Ushiro [re] acts pre-emptively!
If he has special ability and
if his whole system is about acting pre-emptively, then why the need for not one, but two rehearsals...? Is it that he still needs the practice?
The whole of Karate is based on timing, as is just about every other martial art I can think of. As for catching the initiative of the opponent that is something that being internal allows you to do quite successfully, but he has not got that ability. If you really understood, you would notice how after doing the front kick his body is moving backwards and not forwards - his opponent is also moving backwards (a lot further than he needed to, because his experience told him to expect a follow up) but Ushiro does not follow up. In fact his mind and body are going backwards.