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Conflict Process and Tactical Adaptation

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Conflict Conflict: Nonlinear Conflict: other

In Brandon's own words

Every tagged moment, by class. Click a quote to land at the exact moment.

[object Promise] 1 moment

“"people are just trying to hit you in the head version of this... in and the outsides... wherever you end up, you're on the inside, you're on the outside, I'm down, I'm up... It's wherever you end up... Inside, outside, you know... It's how you poke them and wear."”
Open at 36:15
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[object Promise] 6 moments

“"What did they throw?" ... "A customer threw a broom at a cashier..." ... "everybody should take martial arts"”
Open at 0:11
“to be aware of the moment, there is the beginning of the moment, there is the moment, and there's the after the moment… if he raises his hand, I can get out of the way, that's the moment… After, and then capture it in the moment, and apply the technique after he had attacked”
Open at 1:00:05
“"This is not static, observed, this is the before..." you start, and I act before you get..." I'm trying to capture initiative"”
Open at 7:07
“"This is the hardest way first... especially when they're grabbing something... if they have a tool or whatever, knife... so you just want to go on the outside... even if there's still a blade there..."”
Open at 11:31
“"So, the exercise we're doing right now is to get clear about the timing of it... And you're going, no, no, I'm starting... But that's not the same initiative"”
Open at 14:57
“one of the things that we were doing is… the beginning, the moment, and the after the moment… We’re talking about timing and initiative a lot… who has initiative? Who’s leading? Who’s following?”
Open at 1:00:05
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"you always have to be the one who gets beat up, or always the one that does the beating up." ... "make a pile of them, or allow them a door out, or step back"”
Open at 58:11
“"I'm not making a binary choice to be fighting or not" ... "we're drawing a continuum" ... "you have to be able to make decisions to keep your balance"”
Open at 1:00:05
“"you're doing a tweener. Yeah. So go… bump, Drop. Boom." Go through." Step back at the same time."”
Open at 53:22
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[object Promise] 5 moments

“"I really appreciate the effort... I'm signing the paper and letting you go... we put ... on the paper the tension between those two things" ... "we need to satisfy both of those things"”
Open at 34:24
“"I want something different than what you want. We describe it, we come to a shared description of it, we decide what to do about it, and we make an agreement about what's going to happen next."”
Open at 36:16
“"May we do this?...ask them the questions to see if they're aligned with what I want...it becomes clear...what I'm going to do is a process..."”
Open at 40:00
“"May we do this? Would you be open to this?...it becomes clear...I don't make it about them or about me...I either ask permission to work on it as a third thing."”
Open at 40:00
“"it's still very difficult to say that I am the problem... if I can keep the problem as itself...I don't make it about them or about me."”
Open at 40:32
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[object Promise] 2 moments

“"you don't know who is going to decide they're going to grab you... put your hand out so they have something to deal with first."”
Open at 29:06
“"It's not a ... game to try to dominate... training exercise... turn toward them... Don't try to get away from me."”
Open at 29:39
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[object Promise] 7 moments

“"And don't clinch is not really a positive thing one can do. What do you substitute for clenching?... what we're looking for... not very obvious that I'm clenching, except... because I'm trying to hold this where it is"”
Open at 11:10
“"Let's make it even more stop-start..." ... "go in front...I have to do something to get back into balance"”
Open at 40:20
“"you want this to go in front of your body, and stop right there" ... "turn around and try to clobber you"”
Open at 41:14
“"exercise is, go to the place without thinking about it, and then figure out the technique" ... "why do I have to think about this now? It makes your brain go…"”
Open at 50:57
“"I'm gonna move in front of him... take his arm... give a little more pressure... I'm stretching him... and then ... giving a little more pressure"”
Open at 30:30
“"there's the edge of the balance, that's where I would drop, that's where the foot would move... putting pressure on the system"”
Open at 31:30
“"I'm gonna start doing the experiment of moving his balance... Back and forth... working on his body balance"”
Open at 31:49
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"So that you can do more things. Don't do it so much that it hurts you ever." ... "And then relax back to the middle."”
Open at 9:52
“"when we do punches... to the face... don't want to guess your arm... The job is to be able to go... and stop right in front of their face... they feel this... don't make any choices at all"”
Open at 45:58
“"Be very careful that you don't let your arms pull." ... "because it will hurt your elbow." ... "If you kick with your toes, it can hurt your toes."”
Open at 50:40
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[object Promise] 7 moments

“"when people just go straight, they go straight back up their spine... not gonna work at speed" ... "keep going in the same direction" ... "if my left knee comes up I go back and switch my feet" ... "What's on, clockwise"”
Open at 15:14
“— "We're exploring Koshinage" ... — "One of the main exercises ..." ... — "hips are always part of the center movement mechanism" ... — "Hips and knees, and moving the upper body relative to the lower body."”
Open at 30:53
““At an advanced level… your physical hips… throw from a seated position… move themselves enough to be able to throw from a seated position… they can throw from their hips.””
Open at 42:01
““all of the mechanics that we're using for these are the same, and every technique with just a little bit of difference of angle and timing… and that’s the same kind of content.””
Open at 45:49
““a wassei… idea that the flow continues… from right before they decide to attack… to when the conflict is in the first place… engagement is conducted through blending with them.””
Open at 48:10
“"with blending, is it that you blend to then… know the appropriate move?" ... "My response ... do it archetypally. Blending is all the things blending is." ... "yielding is part of blending" ... "From not yielding at all... to completely yielding..."”
Open at 58:16
““And then I would start listening for nuance... So the blending is... Kodo Aikido... blending assumes you account for the other... the more nuanced it becomes, the more it’s a relationship and not just a fistfight.””
Open at 1:00:59
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[object Promise] 3 moments

““when somebody grabs you, that's their arm now… opposite of that… shifting the framing of identity… In what you're talking about, shifting the framing of identity.””
Open at 40:14
““you learn to roll by surrendering, rather than… full-on… because… it is very difficult to start if you don't focus on that 100% at the beginning… That's my Aikido-first argument. Not only Aikido, but Aikido first.””
Open at 41:53
“"I'm allowing myself to be sucked in with the energy, Versus..." ... "I'm not going either way... I'm allowing the energy and to be neutral in the middle."”
Open at 50:30
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[object Promise] 3 moments

“"Different kinds… As long as they have imagination around them, they're specific" ... "Ball and chain style... Still a trouble" ... "There are troubles... I know what to do with that kind of trouble" ... "And there are many that I will... not assume that I can" ... "a strategy could be ... pedaling around the corner" ... "We could switch things up"”
Open at 6:54
“"Let's see... if this is our height difference... I don't want to come up to throw you. I want to go..." you're expecting... I'm just looking my foot behind shoulder, front, and scissoring through."”
Open at 26:49
“"if we don't depend on being able to grab them ... touch from them" ... "don't need to extend things and change content"”
Open at 54:50
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[object Promise] 1 moment

“"this is the unbalancing mechanism" ... "go-somewhere mechanism" ... "That's the transition of weight while you've got the off-balance weight transition" ... "This is doing it without back pressure, and this is doing it with back pressure"”
Open at 8:56
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[object Promise] 5 moments

“"So that you have… so you're double weight, so you have." ... "what I find is ... the metric for are they double weighted or not is when they are not easily moving their feet" ... "you can feel access to their weak line." ... "And that's when you know they're… You got them."”
Open at 25:43
“"The dynamic of it changes... it's time to immediately begin... Attending to it as a conflict" ... "A cue, in this case, refers to... the indicator that there's been a change... it’s your time to say your line"”
Open at 41:25
“"Pivoting to domination..." ... "That's one of the reasons that Aikido is setting you up for... that's not really Aikido." ... "Doing the same skill set... with the minimum amount of energy"”
Open at 43:23
“"I pulled that back into our current practice for a moment... Where it's easy to get blindsided because the process gets changed... when somebody does, you know, sets up an expectation and then violates it... I go too hard, too fast... I still do things I don't intend and put the other person at risk."”
Open at 50:52
“"And being willing to slow down... take that risk collectively... they don't need to victimize someone to move forward... create casualties most of the time. ... at some point, in some circumstances, it is necessary for self-defense ... to do damage to other people. I just think that it's ..."”
Open at 54:05

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