WHAT CAN WE DO WITH ENERGY?

Intercept

Deflect

Receive and Absorb

Provide - to give

Let it be - not be present

How to build attacking combinations

This is very important. We don’t put together combinations randomly. We must understand what a strike or blow does to our opponent. Every strike will send your opponent in a specific direction. For example:

If we kick or punch, assuming its effective, our opponent in the abdomen, they will fold and their head will come forward and down. We would follow it up with perhaps an upper cut or a knee. If we used a left hook, your opponents head would go right and we would then follow up with an attack with a weapon from the right,

THE DECISION

Participant

Non-Participant

SEEKING CENTER

Perry, Gunt, Trap, Strike, Etc

*Every defense is an offensive strike

DEFLECTIONS/ INTERCEPTIONS/ BLOCKS

Perry

Blocks

Catch

Swim

Push up or down

Jam

Cover

FOOTWORK!!!

1/2 Step

Side Step

Back and Forward Step

Circling

Triangle Steps

Hex and Diamond Steps

3 Step

STOPS: DEFENDING AND STRIKING

Elbows

Traps

Jamming Shoulders and Hips

MICRO-BUMPS

TAKING THE INSIDE

Heavy Hands

Gunting

Downward Slapping

Downward Gunting - knuckle of back fist

Horizontal striking with elbows and gunts

Evasive

Stepping in all directions

Circling

Lateral circle

JOINT AND LIMB DESTRUCTION

Elbow breaks

Knee breaks

Pressure points

KINVES, STICKS AND OTHER WEAPONS

Angles

There is a whole array of angles that attacks can come from. Each art has a numbering system. I believe 6 angles to be most used but no matter what, they should flow from one to the next.

Defenses and counters

ELEMENTS

Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire and Water

SOURCES - FEET, WAIST, CORE, SHOULDER, ELBOWS

COMBINATIONS - COMMON

SETTING UP OPONENT

NO RESISTANCE - WALK WITH THEM WHERE THEY MAY PUSH OR PULL YOU

DRIVING, CONCUSSIVE, POSTING, CIRCLE, SPIRAL

QUADRENT THEORY