Orange Sash Fighting Principles

This week we will focus on the four fighting principles that are grouped together under the orange sash requirements. They are:

Bridging the gap
Extension
Lead versus rear
Critical distance

To sum it up in a sentence: How can you get to your partner before they get to you?

Of course these four concepts are huge when dealing with tournament sparring but they are all present in all the other sparring and street games we play too. The video above, I think, does a lovely job illustrating the difficulty (fun, none the less) of working all these concepts together.