Body Feel

Body feel suggests a harmonious interplay of body and spirit, both inseparable.

A- Body Feel in Attack

PHYSICAL:

• Consider balance before, during, after.
• Consider air-tight defense before, during, after.
• Learn to cut into the opponent's moving tools and limit the ground for his agility.
• Consider aliveness

MENTAL:

• Allow the "wanting" to score the target.
• Back yourself by alertness, awareness to sudden change to defense or counter.
• Keep a neutral watchfulness at all times, always observing the opponent's actions and reactions to fit in.
• Learn to relay destructiveness (looseness, speed, compactness, ease) to moving targets.

B- Body Feel in Defense

• Study the opponent's delivering method - signs of telegraphing.
• Learn to time the opponent's second, third moves - read his style and solve the problem should simple attacks fail.
• Read the opponent's movement of helplessness.
• Take advantage of a common tendency to "reach" with spent tools.
• Draw the opponent off balance into one's sensitive aura while keeping your own balance.
• Be able to express efficiency while moving backward and experiment with all possibilities (sidestepping, curving, etc) Stay in balance for finishing blows and kicks.
• At the right moment, attack instantaneously with

a. correct self-synchronization
b. right distance
c. right timing