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[bushido_man96]

You'll have to elaborate a bit more on what au is. If I can pull it off, I'd give it a warmup shot.

[JusticeZero]

It's a movement similar to a cartwheel, but I don't do a cartwheel and neither should you. Turn to be in ginga/lunge position in the direction of travel, i'll say "right" in this case, put the right hand down near the right foot.

Pick the left foot up off the ground slightly, keeping it extended. Left hand in front of you, I have people guarding their ribs with their elbow here.

Now pull your left leg in, and you'll fall over the hands. Left hand down, then left foot next to left hand, and extend right foot out in the direction of travel. When I do this it's with legs tucked in, which adjusts your weight distribution a bit, but minimizes the energy tied up in the movement itself. You can centrifuge it out instinctively if you have more. Keeping the legs tucked protects the abdomen, minimizes the grab-able ballistics, and keeps you coiled so that you can pop out into a scissors takedown or kick if needed.

For practice terms, I have people keep one hand on the floor at all times and reverse direction each time to keep them from getting into a habit of popping up with the extra energy every time, but i'm not going to be picky here. Do it slowly with as much control as you can manage, and the level that you can sink down into the movement without feeling like you're endangering yourself controls how much of an exercise it will be. For warming up with it, you want to sink into it pretty deeply with control, but learning the control adds load to it that helps anyways.

Self defense application - a weapon, rock, dust, or other tactically valuable object is on the floor a few feet away and a high attack is coming in, lunge under the attack and roll with it, putting a hand on the weapon in passing and picking it up.

[bushido_man96]

Thank you for the explanation. I will look into it and see how it works for me.

[sensei8]

If I understand the technique as you've described, I just can't see effectiveness in that technique because of everything that's involved in the technique, especially in the addition of picking up a weapon as well.

[JusticeZero]

It is a movement. I've put a lot of text into detailed a number of keys to minimize the stored energy in it; stored energy does not help to build strength. Removing those keys means that the technique runs using ballistics more, which is fine but i'd rather get it right with the minimal energy input and be able to use more stored energy as needed than to learn it in a way that just requires stored energy.

It is a way to cover a distance chained through a defense without giving up the back or needing a replacement step. It also offers an opportunity to retrieve a weapon. There are a few techniques that use it as a base, for instance, you can use the fall out beyond center to power a lateral axe kick. The entire application of the technique as a connector is, however, a bit beyond the scope of a discussion of how to use it as a calisthenic.

[sensei8]

Yes, I agree, it is a movement, as with any movement, it must be experienced before it can be respected. For example, our brand of Tuite MUST be experienced before it can be respected; just too many parameters to consider. But as you've said before, it's hard to convey it in our current media; alas, live will possibly serve it much better in order to be appreciated as a whole technique.

[JusticeZero]

Right. Also adding to that is the fact that it is a connector, as opposed to a takedown or strike.

[bushido_man96]

I read your description, then looked a bit on youtube. The youtube videos are basically a cartwheel, but yours sounds different, but I have trouble seeing it.