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Chapter 4

How to Take Maximum Advantage of your Waza

If you think too much before you set off your waza, it doesn’t reach well; it gives your opponent a chance to attack back.

When you set off your waza, avoid confronting your opponent from the front as much as you can. Change the angle and attack.

When you attack, you shouldn’t expect to beat the opponent with only one waza. When you concentrate too much on a single waza, your energy will shrink and the next continuous waza will not come along.

When the opponent wards off your blow and starts counter-attacking, overwhelm him with your energy.

Waza

STRONG WAZA, WEAK WAZA

In karate, there are different kinds of waza; jabbing (tsuki), kicking (keri), receiving (uke), parrying (nagasu), throwing (nogeru), holding (osae), tightening (shimeru), and joints (kansetsu).

You do not need to know all kinds of waza, but it is good to know several kinds of waza in each category. By knowing different waza, you can guess what kind of waza the opponent is using. You can then counter the opponent’s attack successfully.

When you attack, try using a waza that the opponent is not good at receiving. To the opponent who is good at kicking but not good at arm techniques, use arm techniques. Target his weak point.

Actual Fighting and Practice

You cannot differentiate between the practice and the actual fight. You will lose energy and concentration if you do.

Practice waza correctly. When you practice, always think of the actual fight. Prepare mentally and condition yourself physically.

How to Manage Opponents with Weapons.

1. Do not look at the weapon.

2. Do not be afraid of death. Keep your mind calm. Move fast. Catch your opponent off guard.

3. Impede your opponent’s sight by throwing sand or objects into his eyes and get a change.

4. Know how to use weapons in different situations.

How to Use Restraint (Kensei)

Restrain your opponent’s energy so he can’t use it. Aim at his throat. When you restrain someone, you can’t only think about your defense, or you would be doubtful and give the opponent a chance to attack.

When the opponent is controlling you, keep your energy high. Do not let him control you. Ward him off. Overwhelm him with your energy so you don’t get overwhelmed yourself. Do not let your opponent control you the way he wants. Outsmart him. You need to have a momentum of mental and physical energy.

The perfect restraint can restrict the opponent’s will, energy and intentions.

Attacking Each Other at the Same Time

If the opponent attacks your upper body, you should attack his middle area at the same time. When attacking happens at the same time, attack contrasting or different parts of the body.

If the opponent moves, that means he has stepped into your space (maai). From the ready position, attack without hesitation. Control your opponent’s movement first. Attack him with the momentum of mindset, energy flow, and power. Attack with continuous waza and give him no chance to attack back.

How to Take the First Turn

When you sense that your opponent is about to attack you, move first so you can restrain his start. Beginners should take the first turn to win. Once you approach your opponent, take the initiative to attack with momentum and rhythm. Keep your waza coming fast.

Fill yourself with a flow of energy (ki). Set off your waza with momentum and overwhelm the opponent. There is only a single chance to beat him. Any initiative waza should come from you decisively. Use all your energy when you move offensively and defensively. When not moving offensively or defensively, conserve your energy.

When your opponent is getting ready to release his waza, he will concentrate on his waza. He will lose concentration on other places. You can find an opening to attack. Aim at the moment before or after the opponent’s waza is set off. Let him miss a shot and get that moment when his balance is off. Sense the waza that the opponent’s starting off and take the initiative turn.

When you are starting off the initiative waza, do not be nervous. Be bold and have a brave heart. Without an initiative move, there is no winning.

How to Make Use of Your Strong Waza

Study what you are good at and build up so you can have waza that can beat anyone. Study the positioning, spacing, and stepping in and out of the spaces. Learn counter-techniques (kaeshi-waza) correctly. Do not break your positioning after you attack.

Even if your first waza doesn’t work, continue with more techniques. Be calm and composed so you can cover your weaknesses.

Strengthen your favorite technique and make it perfect. Make it something you can be confident with.

When Your Opponent’s Energy and Your Energy Hit Each Other at the Same Time

When your opponent comes to attack you with full energy, calm your energy first and then build up your energy in a second. Overwhelm him. When you see him hesitate, attack him all the way.

On the other hand, when your opponent comes to attack you with calm energy, keep your posture higher and straighten your back. Step in to him fast and attack him sharply as if you are stepping on his energy.

How to Deal With Body Attacking Techniques (Atemi-Waza)

Body attacking needs momentum and speed. When the opponent’s energy is full, body attacking doesn’t work.

Chnces to attack the body should be taken at the end of exhaling, the end of speaking, the end of movement, the moment the opponent’s power lowers or the moment the opponent’s shoulders go down.

How to Dominate the Opponent

Knowing your opponent well and catching him in off guard moments will be the basis of fights. Sustaining energy is necessary in fights. Do not lose your flow of energy. When the situation looks bad for you, see the situation well and judge. Judge the ability, advantages, and disadvantages.

If there is no flow of energy, there is no winning.

The Way to Make Use of Surprise

When two people are confronting each other and there is no off-guard moment, clap your hands in front of your opponent and surprise him. When you clap your hands and your opponent gets surprised, that is the moment to attack.

OFFENSE AND DEFENSE

Taking offense means offending the opponent’s mentality. It is also about knowing the opponent. Taking defense means fulfilling your flow of energy and waiting for the situation to change.

Fulfilling your inner energy helps you to know about yourself.

Whether you can see a chance of winning depends on the opponent’s situation. When you attack the opponent’s mental state, try psychological attacks and take his intentions away. When you heighten your energy, fill your inner energy and wait for the chance to attack. Attacking mentality means taking the energy off the opponent. When you can do that, you can be a great athlete, a great director.

Know your opponent and know yourself.

HOW TO SEE THE CHANCE TO START OFF YOUR WAZA

The Chance to Start Off Your Waza

* When the opponent is starting their waza.

* The moment you ward off the opponent’s waza.

* The moment the opponent takes back to ward off the attack.

* The moment the opponent’s energy spreads.

The Strong Waza, the Weak Waza

Anyone has his weak point in techniques. Aim at the weak points. Build up stable defense in your weak points. Fulfill energy to make use of your waza.

Avoid the Situations You Can’t Handle

Waza should be used with combinations. In a bad situation, go back to the original position so the opponent can’t reach you. Avoid bad situations and wait for the next chance.

Setting Off Waza that Contrasts the Opponent’s Waza.

When the opponent attacks your upper body, attack back to the middle. When the opponent attacks you with legs, attack him back with arms.

Set off the waza that contradicts each other.

How to Take a Chance by Inviting Attack

When you set your ready position in the upper position, you will have a space in the middle part. Make space intentionally and invite the opponent to attack there. Wait for the moment he attacks.

When you fake an attack, the opponent’s energy will be tense. Aim at the point after the tensed energy gets loosened up.

Make yourself look like you are weak. When the opponent starts to attack, make it look like you are running away. Once the opponent loosens up, take the chance and attack.

Patiently Wait for a Chance and Set Off Waza

When you patiently wait for a chance to set off your waza, both the opponent’s waza and your waza could hit off each other and negate each other. In such a case, overwhelm the opponent with heightened energy. That will make your waza strong.

In the situation where your waza doesn’t work when you try to set it off, do something completely different and bold. Attack a part that your opponent wouldn’t even expect and confuse his judgment. You will then find a way.

How to Set Your Opponent Off-Guard

Make yourself look like you are setting off hand techniques, but set off leg techniques instead.

Make yourself look like you are moving all of a sudden. Your opponent will attack physically. Aim at that moment.

Always set your mind to believe that you will never lose, never take back.

When the Opponent Holds and You Can’t Use Your Waza

Push him with your shoulders.

Use throwing waza.

How to Chase Opponents

Chase your opponent to the poorly situated ground and stand on the better ground. When you chase, chase the opponent to the left and keep a big space on your left.

Hitting the Opponent Hard

When blocking, hit the opponent hard, as if you are breaking his arms and legs.

Receiving and attacking should be done at the same time so the opponent doesn’t have a chance to set off his waza.

When you hit your opponent hard, beat him until you take his energy completely out so he can never set off his second waza. Do not let him stand up. Kill his chance of attacking back.

When You Attack His Mental

Look through your mind’s eye rather than your physical eyes. Do not look at the opponent’s arms and legs. Look at his heart (mind).

Do not set your eyes on his eyes because he will sense it.

Never repeat the waza that was a mistake.

When Your Lower Body is High

During the fight, your body tends to lose its lower position. This will make you feel fidgety. Keep low in your ready position—it makes offense and defense easier.

The ultimate waza doesn’t need so much technique. Most of the time it only needs one shot. Lower your body and fulfill your energy.

Waza by Masters

A master of waza is liberated. He would never miss a moment. It looks easy and calm. Waza shouldn’t be set off in a rush.

1. Put yourself in the opponent’s shoes. You will then get rid of your worries.

2. You can achieve chances by training. Thousands of punches and kicks are called training. Thousands of training sessions are called discipline. Waza can only be achieved by repeating. There is no other way. That is how human bodies are made.

Aiki

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF ENERGY MEETING (AIKI)

When your energy and the opponent’s energy meet, it is called aiki or waki. Aiki will make changes in waza. When your waza takes your opponent’s energy, your waza works as you wish. That is because your energy overwhelms the other and his energy dies.

When you look with composition in your heart, you will lose the balance in your movement. Your physical movement gets tense.

When your energy wanders around, you cannot set off your waza as you wish.

Work your energy correctly. That will give you a change in waza to take initiative in the fight.

Fights are about competition of energy and competition of waza.

How to Ward off the Energy Meeting (Aiki)

Energy meeting is a waza that removes the opponent’s freedom. Once you complete extraordinary concentration, you can obtain waza that takes the power of the opponent’s in the moment your waza meets each other.

In the situations that the opponent has strong energy, you should receive it with weak energy.

When the opponent has weak energy, you should receive it with strong energy.

It is called breaking off the matching energy when you set off the energy that goes against the opponent’s and makes him irresistible.

How to Chase the Energy

You want to chase your opponent when your energy is fulfilled more and your situation is better.

When the opponent’s position is stable, do not set off waza against the situation. Wait for a chance.

When you chase the opponent, if the opponent manages waza and keeps changing his offense, chase him as you change angles and combine your waza.

You can’t follow the opponent who wants to run away for too long or you will lose your energy. You have to be careful.

How to Counter Off Flow of Energy (Ki)

There is a kind of waza to ward off the technique from an opponent while taking advantage of his waza.

1. When the opponent is attacking, let go of the other’s energy as you back off. Take that moment.

2. Take the moment when the opponent finishes with his first waza and goes to the next one.

3. Raise your energy higher than the opponent’s when he attacks you. Break his rhythm and keep attacking.

4. If you cling to his energy, you will also lose a chance.

5. When you deal with your own body, do it fully. Do not let the opponent’s waza touch you.

How to Use Energy Invitation