Steve Brust writes:
>The really is interesting. Bearing in mind that my instructor (Sensei
>Fusaro, then 6th Dan, JKA) was a white guy, and that this was years ago,
>there are plenty of chances for confusion to slip in; but I'm fairly
>sure that what we were taught as sen sen no sen involved finding the
>moment when one's opponent was about to attack, but before he had
>actually begun.
Interesting. In the salle, we'd have called this "interception" --
where you intercept the attack before it has begun and nulify it's
force as part of your attack/counterattack.
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