Karate Ni Sente Nashi

 

 

Karate Ni Sente Nashi.  

In karate there's first attack.

Flavio Daniele wrote:

I do not agree with the modern interpretation of this, I see it this way: this is a change of attitude based on understanding, on self-confidence, on perfecting their skills through realistic training, both physical and psychological.

For the beginner, the expert Karateka attacks the opponent early, the defense is attack and attack defense too. In Karate (not those who play the sport karate) attaches at first, because what you do at the beginning is always under attack.

In this way the adversary that attacks will not have the ability to attack more than once, because his attack ends at the very moment when it is started. This is reality, this is not a game, when you have to defend your life. You can't play or cheating in these matters.

This is why the inhabitants of Okinawa always stress that you should never use Karate unless you are protecting life, both your and your family members or others who cannot defend themselves.

You live life with joy, peacefully and honorably, but when you defend you do to survive, and this requires that the attacker cannot absolutely continue the attack.

This means that he must end on the ground unconscious within the first two seconds of the match. Either he or you.

I no longer have who wrote this piece beginning a discussion.

Flavio Daniele from the first part of my old article intitoloato "dogfights":

"In the late 1960s, when I began practicing Karate, one of the first precepts that felt often say, was" Karate ni sente nashi "(Karate does not attack first). Precept construed, by more, then as now, as a kind of moral teaching of aggression. Interpretation which has created and continues to create, a misrepresentation on one of the most important strategic principles of martial arts: know seize the moment, act without intentions (wu wei).

Munemori Yagyu, Japan's medieval swordsman, taught that "the key to victory is to let your opponent to take the first move", Musashi himself recommended "win when the opponent attacks". Why insist on leaving the initiative to the opponent? How is it possible that "starting after you arrive before" as he teaches, also, the Taiji Quan?

What is certain that doesn't stick to the first not for some sort of "chivalry" behavior, nor for an ethic from "martial" oratory, but for a strategic principle, discovered experimentally by the masters of the past, which has its roots in our nervous system's ability to act in direct and immediate manner to a stimulus (danger) that threatens our physical safetybetter than you can do with any planned action and super coached.

The action is deliberate, and is almost always attack, unless you have arrived at the top of art, takes place along a path (neural) thought-action that involves the mind that, no matter how fast, will always be slower than the simple re-action that "bypasses" any mental process.

In short: the man reacts more quickly than acting. This strategic principle has now also a scientific demonstration is made at Birmingham University, where analyzing hundreds of volunteers who are challenged to a duel with electronic guns, have discovered that people who extracted per second (re-acted) was on average 21 milliseconds faster than those extracted (acting) first.

In my book "the three ways of the Tao", released in 1997 by the way of instinctive combat writing:

”… Instinctive combat training has no pre-established schemas and standardized movements. We must learn to "feel" the energy of the other and to respond as a function of its movement, one should not "think"; just so you can execute different techniques one behind the other in a quick and fast. ". And later "to ...The instinct is faster, thinner, more absolute and is in direct relation with reality more than the conscious mind. ".

If it doesn't, few among us would reach the age of majority: the first stumbling falling flat on the ground, the first classic tile in freefall there smashing her head. Fortunately, mother nature has given us an emergency software, which allows us to survive, not just when skiing on a trivial banana peel, but even when we are in extreme situations of danger.

Situations that do emerge spontaneously extra-ordinary quality that we possess. Quality inherent in our nervous system occurring because the thinking mind, short-circuited by the extraordinary event, it cannot interfere with the body's natural intelligence that knows what to do without thinking (see the book by Daniele: Xin Yi Quan – the art of Instinctive Fight-Ponchiroli publishers).

The question that now arises is: how to train this reactive spontaneity? How do you stand out? How do I prevent the thinking mind blocks spontaneous action (wu wei)? There are basically two ways: a more challenging from a physical point of view, the other more challenging from the mental point of view. As regards the practical results, at least in the initial stages, the two are equivalent.

The first, the Maestro would say Xu is "hard work", because it requires to face each other and try and try again until you don't know how, but there you have it made. This way on the one hand has the advantage of being fast enough, but the other has the drawback that with the passage of time, dropping the physical prowess and appannandosi reflections, loses effectiveness and leads over a certain level because you know to do, but you don't know how you do it, and thus, having no knowledge of the various steps of the process, we do not know where to intervene, what work to improve our level.

The second way is "smart work" because it requires, in addition to technical aspects, a labor of listening and understanding of their potential both mental and physical, to work on the non-action, transformation requires you to make the body aware not only of what he does, but how it does and why it does it. Only in this way the body


Angel  Lemus 

Flavio I really enjoyed your post, thank you. Especially these two lines resonated very powerfully in this subject-

Yagyu Munemori, swordsman of medieval Japan, taught that "the key to victory is to leave the opponent performs the first move", the same Musashi recommended to "win when the opponent attacks."