Range dictates how your style manifests.

Today I worked with a friend and occasional student on some Kit Dale clinch stuff he had purchased. After doing some of that and helping out with working through the material, we ended up doing some striking drills with an energy very similar to sparring, focusing mostly on mid range as seen often in classic

Initiatives of attack and counter attack: Introduction.

This is a rough post, exists to help organize my thoughts. Forgive the spelling and grammar errors, I will try to lessen them in the future. For now I want momentum going for my blog. In Japanese martial arts there are three phases of attack and counter attack: Sen en no sen, Sen no sen,