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Spinal alignment and the sphere principle could be said to be reciprocal principles, i.e., they compliment one another. The body has an inclination to turn establishing potential circuits around the body, and the sphere principle identifies those circular pathways. Were the body to receive force directed anywhere other than the spine itself, its structure would want to turn away from the oncoming force.
When contemplating the sphere it is also good to consider both centrifugal and centripetal forces.
The primary level of the sphere principle involves directing the adversary’s force along circular lines while rotating as a whole being, a secondary level concerns the greater strategic notion that only one person should function as a sphere in any given moment. If we recognize our center as the center of the sphere and we recognize as well our adversary’s center of gravity, we use our center/sphere to control our adversary’s, etc.
We can view the application of karate and martial arts as a clash of geometric shapes, and this is an important concept to keep in mind when considering the geometric shape of the sphere. Karate and martial arts involve the clash of two spheres of action. As long as both spheres remain intact then each karate-ka and martial artist maintains his or her own centeredness and control of his or her full being. However, once one person becomes absorbed into the other persons whirling sphere, the latter gains control of the former.
We ultimately must seek the smallest sphere possible, a capable karate-ka and martial artist will destroy the adversary’s sphere and take control with exceptionally slight, nearly imperceptible movements (economical movements).
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