Close Range Space Management

[sensei8]

Also, Brian, when you and I trained together, do you remember that I had you train with drill #4?? We used the pad from a Wavemaster to facilitate the drill. You caught onto it quite fast, which didn't surprise me because your "Aha" light came on quickly, and stayed on. I was impressed!!

Yes, Bob, I do recall. Some of our one-steps cover these kinds of movements, and we try to focus on this kind of movement in DT so that we can get to a more advantageous position to detain someone. In grappling, we have to be very careful about when we make space, so that it doesn't get taken advantage of.

Very good discussion, and a nice article!

To the bold type above...

Valid point because that type of space management, is not properly cared for, will create unintended openings to be capitalized by a keen opponent. It's a different animal concerning Close Range Space Management is concerned.

[tatsujin]

Great and interesting article! Thanks for sharing it with me in another thread.

Alot of what you discuss here is right along the lines of what I have learned and teach with a couple of small exceptions. The "no going backwards" is an interesting area to really analyze and discuss.

Hopefully tomorrow I can jump in here more fully. There is a very interesting correlation between what you have written here and what I mentioned about the shiho (四方) and peng, lu, an and ji from the eight gates or bamen. Even in the bagua diagram it shows the five stepping methods (wu bu - 五步) that very closely ties into what you were discussing.

Very, very interesting! I am just not sure where to post! LOL! It may not totally tie to this article (and I don't want to hijack it) and it doesn't necessarily apply to the other thread either (don't want to hijack it either). Maybe a new post all together?

Decisions, decisions! LOL! More to follow tomorrow for sure!

[bushido_man96]

I think you will be ok posting about it here. You won't be hijacking anything; threads have an ebb and flow to them, and that's what makes them great!