A
somewhat restless night, but some interesting dream fragments.
Generally
it is advisable to attack or defend against an enemy from their outside gate.
This train of thought naturally got me to thinking about ways to handle being
on the inside gate. This train of thought evidently occupied the deeper parts
of my brain and my sleeping mind had some insights.
According
to my dream, part of the body can be viewed as a sort of arc shape. This runs
from one hand, up the arm, includes the shoulders and head and goes down the
other arm to the hand. These body areas constitute the most accessible targets
if fighting on the inside gate. Certainly the arms need to be controlled or
dealt with to facilitate access to other target areas on the rest of the body.
The
second image I got had the defender viewed from above with his arms out
straight holding the attacker away. The perspective changed so the defender could
be seen to be actually in a crouch, hands about waist level on the attacker. At
this stage my sleeping mind was drifting off into thinking about vampires.
Against an attacker whose main weapons are his teeth crouching down out of
reach and holding him at arm’s length does have a certain logic I suppose. There
is a Capoeira technique where one squats down under an attack and then springs
up and kicks with both feet. Perhaps my dreaming mind was thinking of this
Before
my mind drifted into a dream about an Irish actress being interviewed about a
movie it provided one more martial technique. The straight arms on the waist
were swung up, the hands pointing upwards to strike with the finger tips in
spear-hand form. Obvious use was to strike up under the jawbone and attack the
throat. I had recently seen straight arm double upward strikes in some Wing
chun manuals. These tended to hit with the upper wrist or backs of the hands.
Using upward angled spear-hands like this was a new idea to me.
As
stated, these were things from a dream so how logical they are remains to be
seen. Perhaps these ideas will inspire someone.
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