MESODORI (Meditations)
Way of Escape
By Kyoshi Max Andrews
A number of jujitsu styles teach nige dori or escape art techniques. Nige dori is based on the simple principle that, “no matter how you may be grabbed, there is always a way of escape.”
I’m familiar with three techniques based on this principle:
1) Open end pressure, 2) Open end leverage, and 3) Open end creation. For me, escaping techniques are so basic, so fundamental, that the principle of Nige dori is one of the first principles I teach new students.
In my younger days (35 years ago) I decided to see if Nige dori would work when one is rope-tied. I don’t know if it was my student’s lack of ability in mastering the fine points of hojo waza (rope tying techniques), or my superior skills in nige waza, but it worked. It was so impressive that it became one of the basic elements of our public demonstrations, at least until time someone used duck tape.
Anyway, the principle is universal, no matter how you are grabbed, not matter what the hold, there is ALWAYS a way of escape.
For the Christian there is a corresponding principle, found in I Corinthians 10:13, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
This is such an important principle, so foundational, so fundamental that it should be taught early to every child of God. No matter what the temptation, no matter what the hold on us may be, God has already designed a way of escape. Our job is to leverage that open end by calling on our Lord for deliverance. There is ALWAYS A WAY OF ESCAPE.
By Kyoshi Max Andrews
A number of jujitsu styles teach nige dori or escape art techniques. Nige dori is based on the simple principle that, “no matter how you may be grabbed, there is always a way of escape.”
I’m familiar with three techniques based on this principle:
1) Open end pressure, 2) Open end leverage, and 3) Open end creation. For me, escaping techniques are so basic, so fundamental, that the principle of Nige dori is one of the first principles I teach new students.
In my younger days (35 years ago) I decided to see if Nige dori would work when one is rope-tied. I don’t know if it was my student’s lack of ability in mastering the fine points of hojo waza (rope tying techniques), or my superior skills in nige waza, but it worked. It was so impressive that it became one of the basic elements of our public demonstrations, at least until time someone used duck tape.
Anyway, the principle is universal, no matter how you are grabbed, not matter what the hold, there is ALWAYS a way of escape.
For the Christian there is a corresponding principle, found in I Corinthians 10:13, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”
This is such an important principle, so foundational, so fundamental that it should be taught early to every child of God. No matter what the temptation, no matter what the hold on us may be, God has already designed a way of escape. Our job is to leverage that open end by calling on our Lord for deliverance. There is ALWAYS A WAY OF ESCAPE.