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Balance comes from SOLID BASICS It can never be achieved with a compliant partner.That is dancing.

Quote: Originally Posted by jwt Context. Pyschological impact and stresses pre, during and post. The nature of the initial assault. Professional fighters rarely start fights in anger with professional techniques - they flail just like everyone else. You are comparing a cage fight with a square go, and the two overlap considerably. Everyone else seems to be comparing a cage fight with a violent assault/robbery/rape/ambush - and that truly is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by jwt Context. Pyschological impact and stresses pre, during and post. The nature of the initial assault. Professional fighters rarely start fights in anger with professional techniques - they flail just like everyone else. You are comparing a cage fight with a square go, and the two overlap considerably. Everyone else seems to be comparing a cage fight with a violent assault/robbery/rape/ambush - and that truly is a...

I've lost count now of how many times (in other threads) I've mentioned to him how context impacts on things

Yours and mine included then in that case.

One more thing to add: what you described looks the same as what I tried to describe about the mindset. Other thing that comes to my mind is flexibility. There are people (not many) who can take a joint lock without being in pain, people who are very flexible, you can pin them down, but they still escape. Is there anyone who has ever trained with someone like that? Aikidokas around me have, but I haven't if you know what I mean. What to...

I pretty much agree with what koyo has said. Although I would like to add that you can look at harmony in terms of co-ordination. Which addresses you're point about balance. It's more important to be coordinated in your movements and posture when pinning someone than it is to try and be solid and immovable. And interestingly the more co-ordination someone has the harder it seems to be to push them around.

Ok, so: a mod walks in to a bar. He sits at the bar. He sees someone intentionally changing words and arguments, in an attempt to intentionally rile people and have an argument for no reason relevent to the thread. He turns to the barman and says: 'That's trolling'. Both the barman and mod agree that it should stop. Now.

On the street, the ability to be able to take a full power strike on your body (a knife stab on your chest will be different) is important. You may be attacked by surprise but if that attack can't hurt you enough, it may just wake you up, and the guy who just hit you may just ask for trouble. In MA, there is nothing more important than to be able to - take, and - finish. We have seen so many movies that have scenes such as: Someone hit...

All I know is my forward ukemi's need some serious work