tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post8583365715387959694..comments2024-03-21T18:54:06.548-07:00Comments on Old Enough to Know Better: Brooms and SicklesSteve Perryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-86864049727953415672008-08-02T11:15:00.000-07:002008-08-02T11:15:00.000-07:00Any amount that you felt like expounding on the fo...Any amount that you felt like expounding on the footwork patterns would be good by me. I've tried hard over the years to develop an understanding of this but there's very little material out there that actually explains it. <BR/><BR/>On the other hand, if you sit and really think about it, you can figure a lot of things out yourself, at least with the sweeps and triangle throwing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-78670856192483371982008-08-02T11:00:00.000-07:002008-08-02T11:00:00.000-07:00The sapu -- or the biset -- is about angles. There...The sapu -- or the biset -- is about angles. There are several platforms -- straight-line, (lurus) triangle (tiga), square (sliwa), cross (sekurum) and combinations of them. In classical Sera, the big platform embracing them all is pantjar. <BR/><BR/>To move on them in balance, you need a good base. The corked-hips position does this.<BR/><BR/>It is counter-intuitive, but once you start to understand it -- I'm just getting there -- you can really feel the difference if you don't use it. It is instrinsically stronger and more stable.<BR/><BR/>In tiga:<BR/><BR/>Stand facing somebody with your feet angled at forty-five degrees and your shoulders squared with your hips. If they step in, you have a sweep with your rear foot/leg. Doesn't matter which foot they put first.<BR/><BR/>If you turn your upper body to face them but leave your feet angled -- think of a horse-stance at 45 degrees -- you will probably have to sweep past your own center-line to take their balance. And insstead of using abs and psoas and thigh to do the move, you will have to use your groin muscles -- sartoris, adductor, gracilus, none of which are particulary strong. So even if you keep your balance, you risk straining these muscles. <BR/><BR/>Naturally, in a real-world application, footwork is going to be looser and adjusted to fit as needed, but the tools are all in there. <BR/><BR/>Langkah and djuru are usually done together, but are separate bases, so you can practice one without the other. <BR/><BR/>In a classic sapu, if my left foot is leading and on the base point of an equilateral triangle, and my right foot is on the other point of the baseline, then the sweep is to the third point, and it doesn't matter where it impacts with the attacker's leg -- ankle, shin, knee, thigh, hip, the motion is the same. Closer your are, the higher the point of contact. <BR/><BR/>Part of what we do is try to protect our centerline, and this can be with hands or feet or whatever. If you properly cover centerline with a move, it catches anything coming in. So you don't target a punch or a kick, you cover the line and your hit or sweep will intersect and intercept the incoming attack.<BR/><BR/>I'll post a picture showing the differences if I can.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29640480.post-82462353920719680232008-08-02T10:25:00.000-07:002008-08-02T10:25:00.000-07:00Thanks for the excellent response.I tend to see be...Thanks for the excellent response.<BR/><BR/>I tend to see beset in the context of osoto-gari, and as specific techniques, rather than as a module to be applied in certain more generic situations, and I'm trying to gain a more general understanding of it based on triangle throwing (vertical triangles and ground triangles).<BR/><BR/>Can you explain a little more about executing sweeps from a "corked" or shoulders-and-hips-parallel position? I know about "reaching" for the reap, which can incidentally end up as a very nasty throw or you can find yourself without the leverage to do much of anything. Maybe that's close to what you're getting at here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com