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Originally Posted by FoolsTP
it seems like a defensive and defeatist attitude to see it as you being in the center and your opponent being on the outside cause wouldn't it feel like you are not the one with the control?
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When you're in the middle it's because you don't need to circle the opponent. When dealing with untrained people, smaller people and beginners it's easy to deflect their power to the outside and send them around you. When facing larger, stronger of better trained fighters you use the evasive footwork to try to circle around behind them and use the angles to your advantage. Either way you are the one creating the circular power and causing your opponent to fight your fight, thats hardly a defeatist attitude. The concept is the core of Baqua, if you're not being taught this you might want to find a different teacher. Baqua is known for standing arm breaks and torquing the opponents spine both of which are accomplished by changing direction and taking the opponent around you. One moment you're moving around him in a circle, as he extends a limb to attack you seize it as you change the direction of the circular force into carrying him around you.This is the concept hidden in the first technique you should be learning, the single palm change.