12 - The 12-6-3 Theory

Kosho Chronicles Issue #12

To The Reader
The Octagon is not a diagram on the floor. It is not a shape you step around during a drill and then forget about when the drill is over. It is alive. It lives in your body, in your opponent's body, in every joint, every crease, every rotation of every limb.

Most people see the Octagon as a pattern to memorize. That is why most people never understand it.

But there is something else they miss. Something that happens between 12 feet, 6 feet, and 3 feet. Something that changes how your eyes work, how your opponent's brain processes what it thinks it is seeing, and why some fighters seem to vanish just as the strike arrives.

Your eyes are your biggest betrayer. But they can also be taught to deceive.

Watch the video included with this issue. Watch how the body moves in the 3/8ths drill. Watch where the eyes look, and more importantly, where they do not look. Then ask yourself: what is really happening in those three distances?