Apr 15 2009
Don’t fight Gravity, use Gravity to fight.
I feel that I should mention this, specifically for musha dori.
When you have musha dori (the lock) we often try to scoop up the opponents elbow. To fight you they are using their muscles plus gravity. If instead you drop your body while keeping your hands in place, you are using gravity against their muscles. I hope you can understand without a visual. I use musha dori because it’s easy to illustrate. If you need a crude Anton Diagram I will give it to you.
If you can understand this method of movement you can use it in nearly all your techniques. If you start to understand this the need for strength in your techniques will decrease significantly. In fact I will argue that sometimes adding strength will be detrimental to your techniques.
Give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised. Your life is on the line, train well.