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Telegraphing or tells are those signs self-defense martial artists look for to determine where an attack is going to start and that tells us, often, where the attack is targeted so tells becomes a solid course in self-defense martial arts. But, what is originally taught as tells is not exactly the most efficient way so that you give yourself both time and distance.
When karate-ka and martial artists begin discussing the tells they feel are necessary you get things like, “When the guy is going to use a punch I look for the hand to cock back, the head and chin drop, weight is shifted and the shoulder will drop along with other factors.” This seems like the current tendency to collect a lot of techniques to combat specific techniques type of drill. It all can be condensed down into nine specifics, i.e., called hubs by Marc MacYoung - the shoulders, the hips, the elbows, the knees and the persons center. Mr. MacYoung provides you the type of things you can practice to see those hubs in your peripheral vision so that you can act long before trying to compile a list of things that will tell you a punch is coming. Who cares if he clenches his fist or drops his chin but you do care the moment the shoulders make that shift to throw the punch, right?
Now, lets go a bit deeper, what are the tells necessary for self-defense. A few examples are the five stages of a possible attack where you see a potential adversary whose body language and actions indicate a possible threat, who checks for witnesses, performs an interview of you as a potential target, assumes an attack position and displays attack indicators, and finally attacks. You have a few levels to make decisions as he approaches and can take appropriate actions that will deter his approach, fail his interview, and get him to break off over assuming the attack position. (also, don’t forget other tells you can determine that say you are in jeopardy, they have the ability and means to attack you)
Don’t get caught up in the atomistic accumulation listing all those things you use as “tells,” simply keep it simple as described and seek our additional information from the listed references at the end of this book.
Now, as to our tells to the adversary, adherence to principles, especially physiokinetics, will reduce those tells, the hubs, your adversary will be looking for. It is a matter of lengthening your line to the adversary so that your tells can be almost unnoticeable. How you execute things matters. There are sometimes exceptions to this because there are times when you want the adversary to see your potential such as the interview, taking a certain stance and posture and attitude can actually present a tell to the approaching threat that you are not to be attacked and they shift and go find easier prey.
Look to structure for force and power generation along with other principles that actually reduce the need for such movement that takes the unnoticeable to the obvious, don’t give your adversary any more than necessary.
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