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The very premise of a karate and martial discipline must be that we can defeat otherwise superior physical aggression.
Karate and martial arts assumes (1) that people will try to exert control over us and (2) that out methodologies permit us to remain in control despite that fact.
Personal responsibility is critical to karate and martial training. We must examine ourselves for our own deficiencies to understand why the attacker can have any control over us at all. If we were perfect in application of fundamental principles in applying our methodologies then the adversary would not exert control over us. We must look at the limits of our own self - centeredness, posture, structure, anatomy (in other words, principles and methodologies), etc., that permit the adversary control over us.
It is about the perspective of improving ourselves relative to the attack - lengthening our lines so as to make the adversary’s line “shorter” by contrast. We have to examine ourselves and out principles and methodologies, or more importantly, the principles expressed through methodologies.
Principled based methodologies should always posses the inherent power to defeat the anticipated attack, no matter how powerful it might be, period. Any principled based methodologies in which we do not find the potential to defeat superior attacks must be questioned. Either we must deepen our understanding of its principles and make it applicable or we must discard it.
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