However, an interesting problem occurs when the person being pushed abandons the parallel position of natural stance and adopts a stance with either left leg forward or right leg forward. Obviously, as a practice this can be developed. To make it more relevant, the person doing the pushing could move their contact point incrementally towards the centre line (much more realistic) forcing the person being pushed to concentrate on their centreline and pivoting subtly around it. Next, the person being pushed could try harnessing the energy that is being supplied by their partner and feed off it by activating the other side of their body, the right side using the fist and arm and also causing the other person to lurch into it, thus requiring even less energy because the forward momentum amplifies the impact. The person being pushed absorbs the energy so that the solidity that the person pushing was expecting to meet just disappears – the result may well be that with the resistance gone they will be over-extended and could lurch forward, which is a good result in itself. Stand square with a partner, both in natural stance facing each other have one side place the right hand on the partner’s left shoulder and push. Clearly this is the physical model of In-Yo, Yin Yang, positive negative working to harmonise, all mutually cooperative. One is to say that you must become like water if you foolishly try to punch water it just yields, and in your efforts you end up getting splashed.Īnother model I use is that you should try to become like the human revolving door like a Charlie Chaplin comedy classic as one side is pushed the other side swings round and slaps you in the chops. I have two analogies I use when teaching. There are some useful ways of into working with Wado taisabaki. But that is Wado taisabaki – body management that allows you to flow. Some might say by no margin whatsoever because what is often viewed from the outside looks so completely suicidal like two forces seemingly competing for the same space. Shotokan have their way of using taisabaki, but it is a very broad brush approach – in Shotokan anything that gets you out of the way or/and in position to counterstrike, can be classified as taisabaki.īut Wado’s approach is to sail dangerously close to the wind, to dice with danger and evade by the narrowest of margins. ‘Taisabaki’ is most conveniently translated as ‘body management’. I wanted to share a particular approach I use to explaining an aspect of taisabaki.įor any non-Wado person reading this, the Wado understanding of ‘taisabaki’ is very distinctive from how other schools of Japanese karate interpret it. Technical Article – Taisabaki, (Heads and Tails).
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