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to look at the opponent’s eyes frees us from intimi- 3-TO LOCATE THE DIRECTION OF THE
dation; please, believe that there are faces and body ATTACK:
expressions that might even paralyze with fear and
nervousness. There is another shortcoming when It is important to locate the direction of the attack,
we try to read the opponents’ action by looking at since it helps us to find the right technique to face
their eyes, and it is precisely that they keep them the action developed in the attack. This aspect is
keep them close, so that we cannot infer the action not difficult to understand with simple words: it
they that are about to perform. consists of gaining control over the direction that
the attack reaches at some points which may adopt
A Japanese master once stated: “when one is sepa- the following forms:
rated from the opponent, he must be regarded as a
big tree spotted from a distance”.

SOME FORMS OF ATTACK

WITH KNIFE

Attack Attack A horizontal A horizontal
directed directed attack high
straight straight attack low
low low

An attack An attack A downward A horizontal
directed directed diagonal attack return
straight straight slash
up down

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