When a match changes, regardless of whether it is to the opponent's advantage or to your own advantage, you have to follow, adapt and make the best of the situation.
Optimally, you yourself are on top, the one who controls the course of the match, the one who leads the opponent to where it is worst for himself, of course while he thinks he is doing the best for himself.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't do your best and get the best out of the situation, even if it's not what you would have chosen.
Instead of insisting, standing firm, fighting against and insisting loudly that "THIS IS WRONG", one must embrace the situation, turn it to one's own advantage. It's a martial art.
For the samurai, martial arts were a way of life, and one of their fighting forms was Jujutsu. And here we are talking about Jujutsu that originated on the battlefield, with the aim of surviving a battle in which many thousands of men participated.
The highly trained samurai mastered many weapons, but were of course aware that a battle is "wild and uncontrollable" by nature, and of course you also had to be able to defend yourself if you were disarmed, if your sword broke, if the fight brought you so close to the opponent , that the sword could not be used, or something unforeseen happened.
Therefore, the samurai used jujutsu that was developed for the battlefield. Designed for an unarmed or lightly armed opposition to heavily armed opponents wearing heavy armor, designed for a battle that continued to the bitter end where it was not possible to pause, nor could it be predicted whether it would take 5 minutes or 5 hours.
In such a battle, one cannot rely on preconceived plans or fixed ideas.
You can't rely on your strength, because you don't know when it will end.
You can't do cool techniques to look good.
What can be done is what needs to be done.
You can know yourself so well, be so clear that you do what is necessary, what fits the situation.
You can do what you do optimally.
That attitude is the legacy we have from Jujutsu, and is what we must remember when learning techniques. It may well be that the gun is a magnum 45, but if you don't have the clarity and the will to use it when it's needed, you might as well have had a pea gun.
That was the attitude Kimu Sensei gave us from the RYUGI (Values and Philosophy basis) session, into the dojo, where the code word was "Keep it simple". In addition, everything took place at Tai Chi pace, with the aim of learning the technique and getting to know one's own body. All techniques can be forced through, and partly made to work, but if you first know the technique and how it fits your own body, it works many times more effectively, and with much less use of strength - more optimally.
We went through 3 basic throws against Jodan, Chudan and Gedan, with an emphasis on the principles of why a throw works, when you have a common center of gravity, when the balance is broken, etc., etc. When it just slides perfectly, all by itself.
A lot of technique, and we already know all the underlying principles from karate - now they just have to be applied at a different fighting distance, with other techniques, so that we are also well prepared if we get into a situation where a throw is needed
And with the setting from the RYUGI in the back of your mind, the technique must also work after a long time on the battlefield, sore and tired and slightly wounded.
From our own experiences in Kaidenkan's "street fight" freestyle competition, we know that when you are tired, sore and pushed to the bottom, you have to find yourself and do what you need to do, because there is no surplus to spend on look good; there is no excess for cool techniques, there is no excess for cunning plans
The only thing left is to do…..
What it takes
