Checkmate Self Defense

BALANCE:

Balance is perhaps the most important principle in any sport. The basic strategy of Judo, for instance, is to keep your opponent off balance while maintaining your own. By keeping your own balance, you will have use of your maximum power while your opponent uses part of his energy trying to regain his balance. The more off balance he is, the more strength he will need to recover.

Jay, Wally. small-circle jujitsu. United States: Ohara Publication, Inc, 2007.

The following principles form the basis of Professor Wally Jays Small Circle Jujitsu and an important part of Sensei Leigh’s style. During this weeks class we focused on transitional flow and rotational momentum. Continue to refer back to these ten principles and understand how we apply them.

1. Balance
2. Mobility and Stability
3. Avoid the Head On Collision of Forces
4. Mental Resistance and Distraction
5. Focus to the Smallest Point Possible
6. Energy Transfer
7. Create a Base
8. Sticking Control and Sensitivity
9. Rotational Momentum
10. Transitional Flow
    1. Exert Continual Pain During Transitions
    2. Create Maximum Pain Without Dislocating Joint
    3. Mobility During Transition Rather than Stability

Thank you everyone for your participation and dedication to training. This was a great class and everyone demonstrated excellent Jujitsu. It was a pleasure to teach and I’m looking forward to the next class.

Apply these elements each time you square off with your training partner. A very important part of learning to defend yourself is to visualize the attack or to treat every training attack as a real attack. Then, follow these elements in order.

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