Fissure,
Apologies again for not being descript enough. The throw "Uchimata" is the inner thigh reaping or lifting throw. The punch to palm motion, followed by the arms positions afterward, are to setup and secure the head and arm of the opponent closely to you as you release a twisting rising high side kick IN BETWEEN THEIR LEGS. The kicking legs motion upward is lifting inside the thigh that is opposite the side of the arm being secured. This causes their leg to be reaped and lifted very high as your upending force causes their body to roll around your hips to the side where you are securing their arm. That arm is pulled/guided down while using head control on the back of their head from the other hand. By using the securing/cupping motion of the palm, under the elbow as they are falling, their own body weight coming down snaps their elbow joint in the palm of your hand. The key there is making sure the opponents forearm is secured into your armpit. The spear hand down is an attack to the suprasternal notch which of course is a killing blow.
I hope my typing makes sense of this for you. If the Uchimata throw using your kicking leg isn't clear enough in my words, pick up any decent Judo book using a depiction of the thrower and the lights will go off over your head concerning that "rising side kick".
It is a vicious application when described. A summary: A throat or nose punch, after a Carotid knife hand, a painful scraping side kick along the inner thighs femoral tract while moving the kicking leg up towards the groin, the groin muscles are then stretched or ripped propelling the throw as their elbow is broken during flight toward the hard ground and then the throat is rendered. A Bummer.
The separation of free sparring, self defense and patterns is to allow proper learning of each individually. There are key focal points in each that must be developed first before the successful integration of all can take place. Yes, I am saying it is possible and I have been doing it for some time. I know this is hard to visualize for a lot of people who have trained a certain way for years. It is this level of development that must be sought after to feel "whole" in what one has been doing seperate for so long. This is a common point of stagnation/frustration that is just as hard as the "advanced" apps. transition phase. A lot of students don't go any further with it because they either don't know how or think it is blasphemous to some dogma handed to them. There are a high number of students that get weeded out at this juncture too, due to boredom, frustration or both.
The example of the chambering being the true movement in many blocks is a good place to see where the integration takes place. Once the advanced apps. are being realized and practiced with a partner, the safety given the blocker, through position alone, enables that same person to apply it to his or her free sparring AND self defense. Just concentrating on the footwork or stances is the best place to start putting it all together. The "blind side" of the opponent is sought after in many self defense and advanced apps. Advanced sparring is NO DIFFERENT. If anyone does not understand my explanation, please look at my posts on the thread "How to spar a Flamingo fighter". I think that is the correct thread title (?). Also my posts on "Sparring against a Puncher". The "awkward" Front Stance is addressing something earlier alluded to. The opponents centerline and stepping off of it around the opponents FORWARD side. This puts your centerline adjacent to your opponents BLIND SPOT. If you have someone standing left side forward in a sparring stance and you step at a 45 deg. angle w/your right foot forward, outside their left, they are in deep doo doo. Their stance is crossed up and you are set for delivery. This is what the front stance in your forms does for free sparring and self defense. The Thai fighters use this forward step to deliver bone crushing cross body roundhouses with the rear leg out of the "front stance". That step moves away from their opponents power side into their blind spot. The left r.h. kick is fired as soon as the lead right leg touches down. I fluster my sparring partners frequently with this tactic. I got it from stepping into a front stance for years. A front stance from my forms! The hand chambering or drawing in your forms many times addresses dilemmas presented when caught flat footed during an attack in free sparring as well as self defense. The two hand knife chambering motion itself can cover you from groin to nose when being kicked during self defense or free sparring. The releasing action into a throw or joint lock is just not applied to your free sparring partner is all. The covering and deflecting motion is plenty enough to subvert their intent. In self defense, the forward release of the two knife high can be a leg lock against a kick as mentioned discussing Koryo earlier. I highly recommend a book titled "Sabaki method" by Ninomiya and Zorensky to anyone interested in the blind side concept I have tried to explain. Proper blindside manipulation is common to ALL stiking arts. The stepping off at a slight angle and forward motion of the common front stance is a strong foundation for live, dynamic applications if understood. Cult members need not apply!
(Joking, honest!)
white belt
p.s.
Wasn't Frank Sinatra "Chairman of The Borg"? Maybe it's the song "I get a KICK out of you!" I'm referencing?
