Have you ever wondered if your techniques are fast enough or effective
if you've been studying the martial arts for any length of time you've probably
been trying to figure that out yourself whether it be for self defense or sport
in this episode we're going to start covering the economy of motion with your
techniques stay tuned we'll talk about it
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practice your economy of motion with your techniques?" let us know in the
comments down there so we can start up a discussion about it
economy of motion is something that has been argued for a long time from Bruce
Lee all the way up to the current UFC Championships they have today many
people have a grasp and understanding of what is being economical with their
techniques and movement and often think of forgoing the understanding the old
classical martial arts classical martial arts movements and techniques actually
hold the idea of the economy of motion but through with the changes over the
years that are taught it is mostly a demonstrative technique for sport or to
show off this can be a real problem when teaching the students basically when the
martial arts is introduced to the public it was used as a form of a control and a
way to impress people that were watching them despite what people believe today
there is quite a lot of economy in motion that has been set forth and done
in these techniques and the idea of them have been lost over the years due to the
implication of sports and just trying to look good one of the most impressive
things that you can study in the Japanese martial arts and Okinawan is
this process called Tyson which means same time at a counter and attack it's
also known as the slip in G kundo this is not to mistake it that it's a parry
and block with a one-two kind of feeling but it is actually a strike at the same
time you're pairing and maybe dodging with your head to keep from getting hit
if you miss the parry number one is make sure that when you're
using a technique you do not Telegraph its intention first make sure your
techniques go from point A to point B and second study the shortest distance
or route that your technique can take when you're doing this be sure you're
understand with telegraphing is don't shell did where the derived power is
coming from in the technique or in many cases it's not how far you pull back
kick or punch but the ability to put the power in the shortest distance
accurately and effectively I have seen many times that an inexperienced
students or fighters will often make extra movements right before they're
applying their technique one of the things I would do when you're practicing
is take a video of yourself make sure you're not making some bouncing
movements or just not anything extra that you don't know you're doing any
little extra movement or action might actually give your opponent an idea that
you're telegraphing and in using a video this will help you to correct any
movements you might find that you or your coach might be missing falling
through it the closest technique allows a person to better control oncoming
techniques that are being thrown at them the trouble with people not checking
their techniques and that is they don't exactly get to examine everything they
forget to look at their footwork patterns what they're doing with their
foot techniques maybe how they're using their head their eyes whatever
telegraphing can be very subtle but good fighters will catch on it there are so
many things you can do while studying your techniques and being able to
understand where the techniques are in relation to the movement in the actions
that are being portrayed I believe the old instructors from 100 years ago more
actually hit dodged and parried at the same time when they were defending
themselves this has shown a lot in their forms and Coty's but I think that sports
has obliterated some of the very useful techniques that were there number two is
to study your footwork patterns and motions to make sure you're delivering
the proper amount of power with each subtle movement you might do one of my
favorite techniques to use is of classical back stance that can be seen
in hand shot on and pinyon need on any Okinawan styles plus it's one of my
favorites and I feel it's one of the most useful techniques for me today the
basic movement as you can see is a long back stance which in reality is not very
economical because the way it's taught in sport however in studying these
techniques from a standing position or an on assuming position you can actually
see the hands themselves being able to do multiple techniques in that one
movement of training this does not even include the one two attacks that you can
do with the legs also at this point number three is basically understanding
the primary targets that those techniques will be using as you're
studying them I find it interesting sometimes that people don't break down
the actuality of a technique and only assume what they
been taught simply because that's the way it was given to them it really
doesn't matter what techniques you were using or you feel comfortable with
because you should apply the same principle to it as I'm doing with this
technique here you have to understand the process of this in order to really
utilize the principles that are being taught with these techniques
number four is basically make sure this these techniques you're working with are
using modern day standards of self-defense or attacks or anything that
might be coming at you many people are taught the classical ways and which is
that wrong to understand the history of it but sometimes the classical
applications themselves have very little meaning today number five when you are
studying the martial arts you have to have the audacity to ask one question
why why is very important in understanding each of these techniques
you're trying to study it's impossible for the human body to move in any other
directions and what it was made for and you have to understand these ranges to
maintain power speed and mobility there's need to be able to deliberate
each technique that the person is trying to do it allows them to proliferate
their own style that they use the same thing happens in trying to understand
how the feet are moving the fighter has to understand basically are they moving
in moving to the oblique or if they have to move backwards it would just depend
on the actions that are being thrown at them so they have to be tested
constantly in doing the back stance like I mentioned earlier in the Coty's that I
like I like doing the two back stances in a row as you can see here this is
helping me with a one-two punch and being able to get basically six
techniques in at that point actually seven but there's even more if I had
carried it through it's impossible to have an economy of motion if you're
standing in a ready to fight stance instead train yourself from an
unassuming position or a relaxed position once you get into a stance of
self-defense or fighting there's no real surprise for your technique surprise
becomes your best friend and a shorter movement can sometimes allow you to take
better control of the opponent's attack I used a similar principle when I was
testing for my six degree black belt and held it as a part of my thesis that's
the economy of motion it's interesting to note how many of the upper ranks in
the classical cells never put two and two together they might do it in their
own formats but never really understood how the techniques in these classical
actions actually came together it was also interests
you note how much action was in there that they had never thought of or seen
before now I think if they had gone back to some of the traditional karate such
as Okinawan karate and understood qco pressure points in that they would have
probably caught some of those but many of the masters who came to America or
Europe just held these things back and I think it's interesting today to note
that many of the older instructors today are going back to Okinawa and China just
to figure out how these actions actually work with the nerve centers now I'm not
talking about magic karate or anything like that but I am talking about actual
attacks to nerves and body points the one thing you got to realize in this
with these types of actions unless you train regularly it will be impossible
for you to always hit the right areas of the body although we're not covering
nerve attacks at this point it is here that each of these individual movements
are striking and important targets and nerve clusters then it can allow the
person use a finishing technique whether it be a throw or some sort of punch or
kick or whatever remember this does take constant study if you want to become
proficient in the ability not to waste your movement in a fight it's not
something you can do one time and always remember it's something you'll have to
do repetitively until it becomes second nature
so therefore study your techniques check out their motion you know how they're
moving what's reality what's pushing it to a demonstrative level in sports get
that feel in there number six is keep your fluidity of motion fluidity of
motion is really something that I don't think is often stressed enough I I think
some people out there think the fluid technique is like doing a simple one
tube combination it's not true the fluidity of your technique has to be
that when you are attacking that you keep a constant move and that the
technique that is used is able to follow without changing too much direction or
the fluid direction that you're moving in what I mean by that is if I'm coming
in to you at the 1/2 and I stop that is not a fluidity of motion fluidity of
motion via I do a1 to continue doing a roundhouse from the out lag or or just
taking and continuing with the techniques until the fight is over I
think that's one thing that made Bruce Lee one of the greatest fighters to live
in his time and I think today it's one of the better reasons why a lot of these
good fighters can stay high levels I'll try to talk about
fluidity some other time but just know that being able to move without any
encumbrance and be able to continue to defend an attack without stopping and to
be able to move consistently and non-stop in order to be able to be
effective now there's a lot of people out there so how do you do that again
that's by you completely trainings going through each of the techniques that
you've learned and seeing how they apply from one motion to the other that was I
think originally the purpose of some of the kata Stu was to go from one for
transition to the next the problem with that is is if you see like in karate
that's a very hard style the fluidity becomes lost simply because they lock
and go to the next technique that's not to say there's not fluidity and then
once they learn how to do the lock and explode which is almost instantaneous
it really takes them to the next advanced level but lower rank people
don't often get this because it's not taught to them fluidity is more than
just doing a one punch or a two punch or a three punch it has to be trained and
studied it cannot be left alone on its own because it's not just going to
happen I mean if you've ever seen good kung fu you will see that most of the
time it doesn't stop and when it does it's usually a sign that they're
changing directions or or basically going on to a new opponent the true
actual applications of fluidity that were used in many of the old kung fu
forms were basically counters to the counters to the counters I mean whenever
somebody was attacking they would counter do an attack assuming that
person did a counter to your attack you accounted that attack and it just went
back and forth I hope this has been some help don't forget to comment about the
question we had earlier how do you practice your economy of motion for your
techniques let us get a conversation started so we can all find better ways
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