Using the Karate Method to Defeat an Attacker

By Al Case


Most people don't understand the precise karate strategy of how to win a fight. This is a whole area of combat that has served generations of people, even enabled peasants to defeat armed samurai, and yet it is poorly understood. In this bit of writing we will discuss the strategy you need to use to win any fight, and this method can be used by practitioners of any art, including jujitsu, Kung Fu, Kenpo, etc.

The first thing you need to do, if you're going to win the fight, is to set the distance. This means more than just controlling whether the fight is to be conducted at a certain range. This means setting up the fight so that no matter the range, you are using your best weapon, and in a position to close the distance and knock him out, take him down, or whatever.

To enter the fight you must establish a position, then shuffle forward until you step on the line between you and your opponent. This is an invisible point, but he will noticeably flinch, or move away, or make some other motion when you cross that point. Once you understand how to invade his space in this manner, you must do the things I am going to list in the following sentences, all while easing in on him and trying to get into his space without him reacting.

Once you have set the distance you must set the side you are going to attack on. Most people stand with their right side back, but it doesn't matter which side they use. And, to tell the truth, it doesn't matter what side you use.

Once you have each chosen a side to present, you should begin to circle. You should be circling to his open side, which will present the flat of his body, and gets away from the wedge of his body. Shifting in with occasional random movements, you attempt to move into his open space with the wedge of your body, this gives you more target area and weapons, and he will have less target area and be facing more weapons.

You are now giving him with two problems, as you are treading on his territory with both forward and sideways motions. Moving in this manner, hold up your hands so that your opponent has to either push between them, or try to move around them. So either hold your fists closer together, so that he will push try to come around them, or hold the fists wider so that he will think he can attack through the center.

These three things make an opponent easier to predict, and therefore to fight. It won't take long before he begins to believe he can take advantage of the opening you are presenting, and you are about to get a fabulous opportunity to take him downtown. The forward and back motion, the side shifting, when he finally attacks you will be shifting out of his range, but you are going to have to be fast if you wish to take advantage.

Being quick means you have to see it coming, you have to set up the situation, and cause him to think he can get away with it. You see, a fighter won't attack unless he thinks he can win. So you have to make him think he has the advantage, and then you have to time his totally predictable strike if you want to win the fight with Karate.




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