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Joachim said:
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dogscoff said:
What David Gervais talks about is valid, and even Shotokan teaches you to take advantage of an unbalanced opponent, but I'm very surprised a karate instructor allowed himself to get pulled off balance like that, although if you were doing something other than what he was expecting in a demonstration then I guess it could happen to even a good instructor. One of the first things you learn in Karate is stance, and with proper stance you should never over-reach or put yourself off-balance. It's fundamental to karate.
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As has already been identified - David used principles of Aikido to deal with the Karate "instructor" and as David pointed out it seems the natural thing to do - which is part of the Aikido way. The Karate instructor did not allow himself to be pulled over (in Aikido you never "pull" someone anyway), David re-directed the instructor's attacking energy (Ki or Chi) and then used it against him.
Dont go and learn Aikido - as any Sensei worth learning from will not teach you with an attitude of wanting to beat the proverbial out of others.
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If David
said he pulled, I'm not inclined to call him a liar. If the story went anything like what david said, I doubt the instructor really
allowed himself to be pulled over except in the sense of failing to act against it (probably because he was expecting David to follow his instruction to try and block). And I think the word you're looking for there near the end is "momentum", perhaps with a pinch of angular momentum for flavour and a healthy side dish of gravitational potential energy.
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