The Need for Speed

A different use of speed for defense came from one of my John Kerker which he learned from Sherman Harrill.

 

His concept was that when attacked you should answer the attack exactly with the speed that you practice your kata, but your focus for meeting that attack was where the attack passes through the point in space where the speed of your kata technique places your response.

 

Thus you are attacking the attacking limb when it meets that point and time in space, not changing your speed to let the attacker dictate your response.

 

So you would not increase your speed to meet the attack, instead you attack their limb (for example) when it enters the space your response has practiced to meet never varying the speed of your training.