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Judo students, from the beginning, must get spring into their movements. Have a look at the section called ‘Tricks of Holding’ and notice how the man rises on tiptoe and sinks right down, then rises again and sinks again, to come up for the last time as he executes the throw. Exercise yourself in thus changing the level in your Judo; if you look through the pictures in this book with this one point in mind, you will have learnt something very useful. Many Europeans hate bending their knees to go down; they would rather keep the knees straight and bend forward to pick something up than bend the knees and go down. Well, in Judo you have to train yourself to bend the knees flexibly and naturally, and at speed. Some experts do a hundred or two ‘squats’ every morning and evening to help them acquire the movement comfortably.

Again study the change of distance in the various attacks; it is no use keeping the same distance from your opponents and hoping they will somehow walk into your throw; you have to chase after them and cover the ground faster than they can. There is a Zen story about a man who was walking in a field one day when he saw a rabbit pop out of its hole suddenly and stun itself against a stake which the farmer had happened to fix there. He took the rabbit home and had it for dinner. Afterwards he used to sit there for hours every day waiting for the same thing to happen again. But it never did. Some Judo students are a bit like this; when they are beginners they manage to get hold of a technique which works when the opponent happens to come right into it. But as they get on they meet better opponents, and then the opponent never walks into the throw again.