As a teen I was small and always fought the big guys in the dojo (because everyone was big) What was always brought to my attentions was that each person I face is not tall or small they "ARE".
Meaning everyone was a weakness and I need to learn to fight each person not sizes of people. Now that did take some time to workout and to train myself to react to each attach seperatly.
Now that I stand 6' plus I understand fighting both body types.
I always tell my shorter students that tall fighters have more to hit... they are a bigger target and shorter people are a smaller target. Use your skills to your advantage not
letting your target (no matter size) stop you from doing what you know how to do.
Do not see size see targets.
I realize it is easy to write and hard to understand or apply (it is easy to be coach). With most people it is not the wall that stops them from climbing it it is the fear of falling or failing.
Also try to find a good fighter that is smaller than you reverse the situation and learn from the taller persons veiw........
I was lucky when I was small their was two yudansha that both stood 5'3".
Each fought in different manners one like a bull of 7' tall and the other using his smaller size to capitalize on my larger (5'6" to 5'10") size.
Last edited by Spirit; 11-08-2006 at 01:40 PM.
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