Lately I’ve been working on the idea of making your life simple and your opponent’s life difficult.
What I mean by this is always having two attacks working together. He has two bad choices to make and you have one easy one: whichever one is given.
It reminds me of a quote I once heard, “A man can do anything he wants but he can’t do everything.”
An aspect of keeping things simple is to always give your opponent motivation to move.
My dad told me many years ago that in judo, the way to get someone to push you was to push him first. I think about this all the time in my attacks. I always want to get the other guy to want move rather than force him. Forcing involves energy and can allow tunnel vision to take over.
For instance, if someone postures up in my closed guard, rather than pull the opponent down, I prefer to hip bump them, which forces them to push me back.
All these concepts have been floating in my head as my instructor’s been telling me lately to simplify everything. Quite frankly, it’s been a relief.
For so long I’ve had so many techniques and options floating in my head that I often would freeze up with analysis paralysis. Now by just focusing on a few basic attacks I simply need to figure out what the two threats are in a situation, then take whatever one is given to me. It’s that simple.
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