TECHNIQUE; SUB-PRINCIPLE: Leading Control

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This particular sub-principle as explained originally seems to fall more into the social and/or competitive arena. Leading an adversary toward a certain goal using their attack tactic to facilitate that end seems more appropriate to these other forms of martial discipline, i.e., sport and self-defense in social monkey antics violence and conflict situations. 

In the self-defense martial arts disciplines it is also a sub-principle that can be used but that often involves how one would move provided they had the time, distance and therefore opportunity to implement the tactic/strategy. When hit in a blitz fashion where one is surprised, the attack is fast, hard and very close along with the resulting fear and pain tends to make this more difficult. It is doable but difficult and requires reality based training to let it work.

This principle is basically based on the adversary’s movement and our reciprocating movement, i.e., he rotates his body and we join in that rotation accentuating it the same direction with our own goals as the end results over the adversary’s. We are actually taking the adversary’s move and forcing it and him to move to our projection, direction and force of our energy as a result. This strategy and goal tend to undermine the adversary’s mental and physical state - unbalancing the mind and body.

Changing the adversary’s course of action puts them into an OO bounce while taking advantage of their force, energy and power to then be supplemented and enhanced by our application of energy, force, power and direction to apply our goals, tactics and strategies. We apply our actions to exploit his actions and intentions to gain superior orientation, position and control.

This puts them in the OO bounce because their minds are locked onto their application and until that is completed they tend to remain there while the OO bounce keeps them in that application while trying to observe and orient to the change in his plans, changes from you and not his. 

There are a variety of ways to misdirect an adversary into actions that allow us to exploit leading control but those are geared more toward sport competitions and the social monkey antics already explained above. This is more about handling the asocial attacks from adversary’s who want either a certain process as a goal or certain resources as a goal. 

When under a predatory process/resource type of attack there is often no time to enact such strategies but you can still apply certain aspects of leading control to counter the blitz like attack of a process predator or fail the interview of a resource predator, etc., but a word of warning, there is far more to all this then presented here in this terse comment on leading control. 

In a nutshell, leading control is about the ability to control your adversary from his own attack. 

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