Be Aware of Gravity

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Does the discussion of gravity ever come up in your self-defense and/or Martial Arts lessons? We tend to discuss and practice a technique based lesson that makes use of gravity when we unbalance or disrupt an adversary’s structure while apply certain principles such as a diverse application of methodologies that result often in “Taking down” an attacker. 

What about how gravity might effect your self-defense defense? How does gravity work with those methodologies and what can happen to an adversary when gravity is used or takes over and what are your responsibilities to keep your level of force within the self-defense square? Will gravity when it takes over add to your level of force taking you outside that self-defense square, i.e., excessive force level? What part of articulating your defense actions involves how gravity effects those defenses when controlled and when you have no control and at what point did you lose control and what are you responsible for when that point is reached or exceeded? Did your actions when gravity took over come from those actions? If yes, then how do you explain and adjust your force to take account of gravity?

Most might think that once the attacker falls as long as you are not continuing any actions or techniques that if they hit their head on a curb that is on the attacker but is that true? How will the legal community look at and define gravities effects as to force levels and appropriate application of force, etc.?

Beware of Gravity is to be aware of gravity and how it is involved in the application of proper self-defense. The study of self-defense is about studying all those aspects that may or may not be a part of results and ramifications be it on you or on the attacker in self-defense, defense.

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