Friction of Personal Art of War

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• Cause the adversary’s rhythm to fall apart.
• Make a powerful attack causing the adversary to react in lieu of acting.
• Arrest the adversary’s attack at the point of the very impulse to act.
• Make the adversary in a hurry to act. 
• Do things to make the adversary feel fear or anger, either one will result is his taking chances.
• Do the unexpected.
• Seize the adversary’s moment of fright, take advantage to win.
• Fighting at close range when it is not going well, stick tight to the adversary.
• When the adversary advances move to the edge/corner and attack.
• Inflict injurious pain to the adversary.
• Attack rapidly and unrelentingly. 
• Make the adversary think confusing thoughts.
• Concentrate your force, speed and fluidity with crushing force.
• Disrupt the adversary’s rhythm, cadence and balance.
• Change technique, tactics and methodologies rapidly and never repeat until defeated.
• Become a rock wall, inaccessible to anything at all, immovable.

In Boyd’s cycle he speaks to friction so I thought I would try to collect and list those things that would be seen as friction, i.e., the types of frictions that would benefit you while obstructing the efforts of an adversary. These concepts could cause a type of friction the bleeds off the adversary’s ability to defeat you in a violent encounter but that is not all because this spans all those fense (defenses/offenses) before and after any physical intervention you may feel necessary to achieve your goals. 

Take a look at the list, I feel you can see as martial artists how this would cause frictions that are beneficial to your goals in fense. The idea here is for your applications to come closer to the OODA loop or cycle derived from Boyd’s Discourse on Winning and Losing, etc. 

Boyd’s Modern Art of War, called the Discourse, states, “Friction is thus a crucial concept, it is a weapon as well as a threat. The idea of friction as a weapon flows directly from the recognition of uncertainty as the one thing any system is constantly facing and trying to reduce. … maximize enemy friction, one should plan to attack with a variety of actions, executed with the greatest possible rapidity in a variety of tempo’s.”

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