What are the Principles?
The Principles are the fundamentals that can be seen to govern movement in general and combat specifically. By understanding and applying the Principles one can develop the skills to operate more efficiently under pressure and to produce a more credible performance.
Awareness - One has to be aware, of ones self, the environment and others who are in it before anything else can be done. The key training tool to developing Awareness is the use of eye contact in training.
Balance - Understanding Balance, within the self, between the opponents and within the context of setting is vital, mental balance, not over fixating, shifting focus from internal to external, from close to wide.
Combative Intention - Intention directs the actions. What is the goal? What are those involved prepared to invest to achieve that goal?
More to follow.......
A blog about an approach to stage combat where the goal is storytelling through realistic intentions and actions. Actuality, Reality, Theatricality
