Body Movement

I wanted to touch base on the fifth line of the ken-po goku-i in that we train/practice to have our bodies change directions at any time. What may get stuck in some minds is the "sport driven" aspect of movement, i.e. forward and directly backward in a straight line. I am going to once again venture into that land I am not expert in and that is street conflicts.

We humans if not informed of other stuff tend to lock on to such things and it remains until a light comes on and says, "Oh yea, cool!" You know that "Oh shit moment." In many dojo sparring and fighting and self defense training remains in the dark ages of sport driven body movement.

When I say change direction at any time I mean all dimensions, i.e. forward, on angle forward, on angle backward, in a circular back or forth or both movement, etc. I like to spiral sometimes so when someone actually moves and enter my clear zone I move in a particular direction say right and then do a spiral move as I close in to attack (not self defense here ;-).

I know of several interpretations of the ken-po goku-i but then tend to stay within that locked up view of moving, sport-driven. Another point I would like you to consider is that the reason the goku-i was provided in such a short, terse, way was to promote self-analysis, perception and open the door to our minds ability to "create," or to "see." Ops, here I go again with "seeing."

So, add that to the possibilities of the ken-po goku-i, yea! There is always something to see, always something to learn. In line four  a person's unbalance being the same as a weight try the lack of knowledge and ability to make things work; to see outside the box is light a huge weight causing your balance to kilter out and drag your progress down to oblivion ... why people quit?