NINJITSU DEFENSIVE STANCE

 

Step back with the rear leg.
  

Turn the rear foot at an angle and bend the knee.  

Lower your weight and lean into the rear leg keeping the back straight.  

The lead foot is angled with the knee bent slightly.  

The left lead hand is held above the lead knee.  

The rear hand is next to the neck, elbow down with radial artery turned inward  

Stationary
This stance is used when for overlooking a fallen opponent or when you have finished a self-defense technique with your partner in class.  Once the technique or finished (annihilate, control or escape), you will stand in Defensive stance.

Mobile Defensive
Again, you are moving back so it is defensive posture.  The idea is that you are moving away from an opponents punch and using the lead arm to deflect any strikes while bringing up the rear hand to protect against a rear choke from behind.  You step back to remove your body from the area of attack and prepare a defense.

 Moving away from an attack

 Overlooking a fallen opponent

 Defense from a rear choke

 Confronting the possibility of unknown assailants.  

Looking over a fallen opponent with open focus scanning while hand protects neck from surprise attacks

Better peripheral vision

Stepping at an angle so less likely to fall backwards


Flow back into the stance and flow forward into a punch 

Easy to go into a forward or reverse roll - while stepping back you turn torwards that rear leg and side / forward roll away from the attacker.

 

 

                          

 

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