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First, active movement can encompass those movements necessary to overcome an OODA loop lock due to a predatory type attack that comes by surprise, fast, hard, close with pain and inducing fear so we need to actively move to overcome that OO loop, the freeze while we are receiving damage.
Active movement also helps the karate-ka and martial artists to achieve victory in the more sport oriented forms practiced today. It involves a type of fighting stance as well as other things.
Fighting stances may or may not be viable depending on the type of adversary and type of attack. It could be a socially driven monkey dance or it could be a process or resource predatory surprise attack. In these two instances one may be able to assume a stance and in the other the adversary has already removed chances of taking a stance in defense. In other words, it all depends on the situation.
Lets talk about stances, those stance used to provide us a base to generate force and those that provide us stability with balance. In any instance or circumstance it behooves us to move, to actively move, not assuming any stance more than the moment to either act, run, defend, etc., or to move to the next stance. Stances are active movement unto themselves. Taking a static and/or stationary type stance is not recommended unless circumstances present enough distance and time to act regardless of its purpose (and if you have that type of distance why are you not leaving?), i.e., moving and using obstacles as protective barriers, moving toward an exit to leave or taking a posture and stance that allows you to apply de-escalation techniques.
We also take active movement that change our position as described above, i.e., to achieve some stance, posture and position for time, distance and to shield against aggression through natural obstacles or simply by running out of the dangerous environment.
In another way active movement helps us achieve and keep distance and by that movement we either find a safe place or we simply take the adversary's targeting and ability to cause harm away from him.
One of the most difficult instincts to overcome for humans is to move off the adversary's center or centerline, i.e., stepping to the side at 22 to 45 degrees. Sidestepping also causes the adversary to re-boot his OODA loop back to observe and orient and that presents you with time, time to do something.
It becomes very apparent to karate-ka and martial arts practitioners that our movement in relation to our adversary is actually a foundational trait of all martial arts for self-defense training, practice and application.
Another aspect of active movement is that when an adversary commits to an attack they commit to a specific active movement that requires its completion before the adversary can change his movement. This also gives you time, time to do something productive.
Once an adversary commits to a specific active movement they cannot compensate for the movement we take in response. The adversary, in motion, is unable to move relative to our movement and so on.
It must be remembered that movement takes energy and when in the movement there is no available energy to compensate for our actions or our active movement that could be to turn and leave, to side step in preparation to apply a methodology or to counter the adversary's movement.
There are three traits that effect active movement of self and adversary, i.e., first, being locked into an active movement or action makes the adversary unable to change until that action is completed. Second, when the adversary becomes unbalanced they have to regain balance before they can again move. Third, if the adversary cannot perceive or detect our movement due to our speed, i.e., puts them into a OO bounce, then the reaction time and ability become frozen for the adversary.
Active movement achieves nothing if our adversary can move in response.
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