It's interesting what you said, about practising rolls past people. One of the side effects I've noticed of studying kobudo is that I'm becoming more and more cerebral about combat and movement. Looking more and more at force advantage and the mechanics of how it would work in real combat. To the point when I'm kind of conscious sometimes this is not the technique you'd use in a real situation, it's just the technique they think beginners can cope with. One thing I was looking at was, in a realistic fight where you're surrounded and out numbered, your only real option is to make sure you're always moving away from whoever might be closing in behind you fast enough and erratically enough to make attacking you difficult. To move away from the centre of your attackers and look for a bottle neck in the terrain you can use to make their attacks manageable. So in that situation passing attacks blocks and dodges would be really important but for the life of me I couldn't recall ever having seen one demonstrated out side of Hollywood. Logically you'd imagine movements like pushing back the near hand with your near hand while turning and stepping past and striking with your far hand or its weapon might work. Or kicking off some ones hips or knee to the side while jumping towards them or even just grappling their ankles with one hand as you roll past. I've never seen anything like this. I think it's largely because most martial arts are based on kata built on the assumption of one against one with maybe the occasional 3rd party being quickly dealt with.
Anyway. I find my self trying to work out the concept behind every thing we're taught. and usually getting it. That's when I'm not exhausted. One thing I can't seem to comprehend is laser tag. I love it as a game but when I play against seasoned opponents they thrash me in ways I can't even understand. There are sensors on the guns to register hits yet some of them seem to stand behind walls and lift their guns over their heads firing yet no matter how many times you fire on them you never hit the sensor on that gun. Some times it seems like they can shoot round corners. Once one fired at me and I distinctly saw his beam slice above my head yet it still registered as a hit. It's more like some sort of kung fu magic than any martial art I've ever seen.
I'm sorry if this is a lot of posts spead over a big time period. I've been having a hard time of late to i've been playing catch up with your blog for a fair chunk of this evening. My grandmother passed away, she was very loved and its at an already chaotic point in my life so i've been a bit tossed about by the waves of life atm.
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Date: 2010-03-17 10:19 pm (UTC)Anyway. I find my self trying to work out the concept behind every thing we're taught. and usually getting it. That's when I'm not exhausted. One thing I can't seem to comprehend is laser tag. I love it as a game but when I play against seasoned opponents they thrash me in ways I can't even understand. There are sensors on the guns to register hits yet some of them seem to stand behind walls and lift their guns over their heads firing yet no matter how many times you fire on them you never hit the sensor on that gun. Some times it seems like they can shoot round corners. Once one fired at me and I distinctly saw his beam slice above my head yet it still registered as a hit. It's more like some sort of kung fu magic than any martial art I've ever seen.
I'm sorry if this is a lot of posts spead over a big time period. I've been having a hard time of late to i've been playing catch up with your blog for a fair chunk of this evening. My grandmother passed away, she was very loved and its at an already chaotic point in my life so i've been a bit tossed about by the waves of life atm.