Posted by KC Elbows on October 17, 2002 at 22:07:49:
In Reply to: Re: Perhaps you didn't understand posted by Yawara on October 17, 2002 at 19:25:29:
'Well doh, if you think that someone is deliberately going to bring the punch right back to where it started, then good. I don't think that you're that inexperienced. To only understand such imbecile level application of form and still be able to post as eloquently as you do is bizarre.'
To do the technique even one inch sets up that dynamic. You are not stopping the attack, you are delaying it. You are giving your opponent energy for him to use. Make the beginning of that arc, you still must move your defending arm to the other side in order to get it out of the way of the chung, but now you want to do that without circling your opponent's hand around, eh? IF for some reason you disengage from the attack you initially blocked against, you will be even further behind from the attack, as you must break a natural circular pattern in order to disengage, while your opponent can and should take advantage of both your energy from the initial block and his energy and hit you on the other side of your neck/head. Meanwhile, you will still be getting your blocking arm out of the way so that you can chung, but by then, your opponent is already a step ahead of you, and you have set up nothing but a blow to yourself.
Disengage immediately, disengage at the end of the circle, any good fighter should be able to take advantage of someone using this defense.
In otherwords, if you press my arm in a direction in a way that traces one inch of a larger circle, I should be able to take the energy from that press and increase it with my own until, by the end of the circle, my power is much more than it would be without your help. Meanwhile, your press has slowed your arm, because you pressed kinetic energy into me, and I gave you none. You, momentarily, are closer to being an object at rest, while I am a mass in motion. You must exert more to get equal speed, had you the same amount of time, but you have less, because you, as you suggested above, must disengage and recallibrate your motion in a new direction without looping my arm even more forcefully into your head/neck area, while I am on a tight circle that begins at your head and ends at it with a hard strike just off the energy of your initial block, or in an absolutely wrenching manner if you give me energy all the way around. The harder you try to outpace my arm in this scenario, the harder and faster you get hit.
That, my friend, is not theory. It is fact. I have seen it a thousand times. Good fighters call that technique 'slap boxing', and they frown on it for the same reasons I listed above. The art of fighting is not slapping people's arms out of the way, that is the art of panicking.
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