{"id":406,"date":"2009-04-15T22:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T04:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=406"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T01:01:15","slug":"dont-fight-gravity-use-gravity-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t fight Gravity, use Gravity to fight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that I should mention this, specifically for musha dori.<\/p>\n<p>When you have musha dori (the lock) we often try to scoop up the opponents elbow.\u00a0 To fight you they are using their muscles plus gravity.\u00a0 If instead you drop your body while keeping your hands in place, you are using gravity against their muscles.\u00a0 I hope you can understand without a visual.\u00a0 I use musha dori because it&#8217;s easy to illustrate.\u00a0 If you need a crude Anton Diagram I will give it to you.<\/p>\n<p>If you can understand this method of movement you can use it in nearly all your techniques.\u00a0 If you start to understand this the need for strength in your techniques will decrease significantly.\u00a0 In fact I will argue that sometimes adding strength will be detrimental to your techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a try, you will be pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 Your life is on the line, train well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 To fight you they are using their muscles plus gravity.\u00a0 If instead you drop your body while keeping your hands in place, you are using gravity against their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/japanton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}