Bagua Zhang for Spiraling Behind - Kumite and Multiple Opponents - Master Su Dong Chen

[eoejmvp]

I think the principles for handling group attacks are also found in sports. In soccer/basketball, double marking is analogous: the surrounded athlete must escape. The reasonable approach is to end being surrounded, requiring getting to the side. However, like martial arts, the side is not safe, though superior to the front. Only "taking the back" sets one free. Running beyond the opponent is needed. All throws require taking the back, at least of the grasped hand/wrist, etc.

[kingofaikido]

check out the Shioda Gozo's group attack work and Junichi Nakamura's stuff..

[eoejmvp]

In EOE, "moving to the side" is considered, as I understand it, "necessary and incomplete." Without moving to the side, one cannot take the back, so it is necessary, but doesn't reach all the way to the goal. One must aim to move to the back - to "surround" / "grasp (totally) the opponent." This is reliably safe only by taking the back. Drawing groups into a line allows one to retreat from being encircled oneself.

Thank you for your comments.

[kingofaikido]

this is the basic idea behind 'trench warfare'.. move to the side... also in aikido with group work. go to the outside, make them come to you in a line..it's nice to see and hear sensei using English sometimes..