Choose The Right Tool!

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Hah, pressure and mental dominance- that is one thing that I have learned- from working with horses! You really have to learn ring generalship when dealing with a thousand pound animal that can be unpredictable.

I've used the same techniques that I learned from my horsemanship mentor on sparring partners. It doesn't work on any of the black belts in my dojo, but last night it worked way too well on one brown belt and one green belt. Of course, when they figure out how easy it is to stop me from doing that, I'm toast! ;}

I had to learn controlling my space long before I learned any striking or blocking basics, because I started my martial arts training with horses... though that sneaky aikidoka didn't TELL me that was what he was teaching me! I didn't really figure it out until I started training formally in Kyokushin.

Problem is... I am still weak on my basics. That will take a while to really get down.

Advantage is... I am not very predictable, because I don't even know what I'm going to do usually!

As for KISS- Sensei tells me most of the full contact tournaments he won, he won with reverse-lunge punches, hah!

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