![]() When Nardia and his students partake in circle training, it’s always with the understanding that they’re sacrificing certain advantages. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about a jab with your fist or a jab with a sword - a fast move is a fast move.” When I do boxing, people say my hands are fast-it’s because of all the Kendo I’ve done. “Perhaps most important, it makes you fast. Studying a linear art like fencing or Kendo offers numerous benefits, he says. However, if you use your legs, it can give you more opportunities.” “Or you can manipulate your opponent’s hands to the side to open a path to his centerline-like they do in Wing Chun. “When you want to take the linear, you maneuver forward or backward with your legs,” he says. When he and his students engage in linear training, it’s with the understanding that it’s basically force against force and speed against speed. “In addition to linear training, we do circle training and triangle training.” “In Kapap, we divide training into sections,” Nardia says. That will help you defeat fighters who rely only on speed.” That’s fine if you have the ability to become faster than all your opponents, but if you’re a slower fighter, you must master angles. Being forced to attack always along the linear path makes you develop your speed. It forces the competitors to get really good with their timing so they can ‘steal the linear’ of their opponent. “That’s why in fencing tournaments, they use a very narrow strip for their matches. “They keep things linear to make it harder for both sides,” Nardia says. ![]() In fact, using angles of attack can make it so much easier to get the upper hand that organizers of many martial arts competitions long ago decided to remove this X-factor from their events. Once you start using Tai Sabaki, you’ll find it much easier to defeat your opponent.” “If I’m fighting you, I’ll always take a 45-degree angle to attack you,” says Nardia, who recently relocated to Israel after spending several years teaching in Rochester, New York. “We can move from side to side in any kind of fight-and we must move that way in self-defense.” “They don’t immediately think about moving from side to side. “Whether they’re sparring in the dojo or defending themselves on the street, people tend to think only of moving forward to attack and backward to avoid an attack,” he says. The Israeli martial arts expert mentions the predominantly linear nature of most styles to point out a self-imposed limitation in the average martial artist’s fighting mindset. Wing Chun Kung Fu is also linear, as you can see when a practitioner tries to take the centerline of his opponent’s body.” “Karate, fencing and Hsing-I, for example, are very linear arts. ![]() “Shapes are important in the martial arts,” Avi Nardia says somewhat matter-of-factly. For Success in Sparring and Self-Defense, It Pays to Think Outside the Box!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |