Friday Jul 30

Principal Techniques

The body can only move in a limited number of ways, thus making the number of techniques a finite size. Even though the number is limited, it's very high and we don’t expect that any person can learn all the possibilities.

But there are common factors like gravity, movement angels and such, making principal movements that are the same no matter which technique you are doing. To keep your balance certain principals have to be incorporated into your techniques. To have the possibility to have flexible movements certain principals have to be in place.

A part of principals is to look at who is doing the technique and in which environment. It matters if the person doing the technique is a little woman weighing 50 kilo or a man weighing 100 kilo, doing a technique on slippery surface or in a crowed street.
 
By practicing the principles through role based training you are giving yourself the correct fundamentals, to base your choice of techniques and ensuring that they fit to what you need in the conflicts you might encounter.