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PRINCIPLES - TECHNIQUES

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The weapon, that is the fists, feet, elbows, knees etc travel some distance before reaching their target. The path the attacks travells is to be manipulated and controlled. If you look at somebodies kamae you can see their understanding of technique. Or, you could say his way of training.

For example, kickboxers often have their kamae very close to the body and relatively high. They protect the jaw and liver. A keen concept. But I think it's rather primitive. I will try to explain it with the following image.

AJ van Dijk - Naoki Ishikawa kamae posture of kihon gumite ipponme in Romania 2007

AJ van Dijk - Naoki Ishikawa kamae posture of kihon gumite ipponme in Romania 2007

I think the line in the picture speaks for itself, it is the line that the fist follows if the first attack was to be done to the head. It is not a front viewing picture, but Shihan Ishikawa closes the seichusen to his chudan. Both hands are ready to attack. The first point to note is that by closing the chudan seichusen, pressure is applied to make ukemi attack to jodan. (There is the manipulation) As you can see, the right hand is just below the line of attack. This means that by just little movement the attack can be defended. (the control)

I said before something about the high kamae of kickboxers. They refer the defense to be at Nr. 2, while wadoryu refers the defense to start from Nr 1. You shouldn't be concerned about what parts of the body to protect at the end of the line, but you should be concerned about how to protect parts of the body from the start of this or these lines.

This is to protect the seichusen and be in a state of attack at all times. Also think about what kamae changes to timing and effort. All change depending on the kamae. Don't waste your energy defending. Use your energy attacking.

One extra example..

Mark van Rooijen - AJ van Dijk in Dojo Gorinchem

This video is on YouTube and one of the comments is as follows:

"How about protecting your own head when/after tdoing the uraken?? Chin down maybe??"

My reply:
"There a 2 points to note.
We consider solar plexus important to protect, that is what I'm doing now. Also, protecting this will point my fist towards my opponent and thus having it ready to attack in the shortest and quickest way as possible.
I cover the centerline with my attacking arm. So actually you refer the defense from end of the line ending up at my face (2), while Irefer the defense at the start of the line (1). (imagine a line between the weapon of your opponent till it's possible target)".


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