Win Lose Or Draw
To me this is an exercise in perspective between the Taizokai (personal perspective) and Kogokai (big picture perspective) mandalas. The student needs to be focused on what they are doing and yet at the same time be aware of what is going on around them.
Let’s look at an example. Say your training partner throws a punch at your head and you step off line, bring up your hands to guard yourself and defend. At this point you have to decide did I win, lose or draw.
A win would be defined in this case as you are offline of the attack, covered, caused the attacker to miss you and taken away their balance. With this outcome you have the opportunity to move in and counter attack and complete your technique.
The other side, lose, with this example would be you are barely offline. You just got out of the way of the punch but you’re off balance and they are aligned with your center and ready to launch their next strike. Here you need to disengage completely and regroup. Basically “Run Away!”
The third possible outcome is a draw. In this example you got offline of the first attack but were unable to disrupt the attackers balance and you don’t have a clear path to the attacker. Here you wait, let them come again and restart the process.
Taijutsu is all about cause and effect. This is one way to evaluate your results and learn to see cause and effect.
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