MCC - 022 ABC Form with Multiple Beats

Multiple beats within the ABC format. DISCLAIMER: These clips are for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We are not instructing you, or encouraging you to do or to believe anything, except to view, enjoy, and think. Never forget that martial arts, like any rigorous course of physical activity, presents the risk of injury, sometimes serious, disabling, or even fatal. Actual techniques should only be practiced in a controlled environment emphasizing safety, under the direct supervision of a Black Belt instructor (in whom you have trust and confidence), and only after you have been cleared by your personal physician. 1. For movement to flow, it must emerge from your core of instinctive movement. Analyzing and thinking get in the way and leave you pausing or losing time focusing on extraneous detail. 2. It flows like water and goes where unimpeded, sometimes through the smallest cracks or kinks in your opponent's armour, sometimes like a tsunami overwhelming all impediments. 3. It packages effective force and/or technique and avoids the inefficient. 4. It's affect is devestating and typically overwhelms the opponent's ability to respond. 5. Flow is self-sustaining. It loops contiously, supported by the defender's underlying physical conditioning. In our training, the catalyst for learning flow is our "ABC kata". It's a simple concept. You say the alphabet, and for each letter of the alphabet, you execute a strike or counter as you say the letter. This will seem easy at first, but clearly isn't, as well you'll know after making your first attempt. Most of you, will find your sequence peters out after the fourth or fifth move . . . where many will simply stop. Of course, in a street defense situation, hesitation means defeat. The object is to maintain a constant fixed cadence as you articulate each letter, and execute a move. For all practical purposes, you are reprogramming your biological computer so that moves are there when you need them, at your beckoning. As you become more skilled, you will find many new techniques and possibilities spontaneously arise as you go through the sequence. You'll even find some techniques become old friends, ready to serve when and where you need them. For more information on the topic of Flow, go here: http://www.ironcrane.com/html/flowabc... Used with Permission. Copyright 2000-2009, Mc Cabe and Associates, Tacoma, WA. All rights reserved.