That said, I must note that learning sabaki, like everything else in life, also involves a caveat. This allows you to feel early on when a technique is done correctly or incorrectly. You're working with natural geometric shapes like circles, triangles, straight lines and spirals. The irony is that when you use sabaki, you're not fighting your opponent. This serves as a bridge to grappling for people who are used to striking and a bridge to striking for grapplers who are used to the ground. I chose these four because during the pandemic, my father decided to incorporate newaza (ground techniques) into the enshin curriculum. In this article, I will present four concepts and several related techniques that illustrate this special quality of sabaki. Sabaki is not a martial art per se rather, it's a traditional idea that's open to evolution and reinterpretation - and that just might precipitate a revolution in the fighting arts. My father Joko Ninomiya, the founder and grandmaster of enshin karate, created the Sabaki Challenge, a tournament designed to highlight this intelligent system of working with an opponent's force, which often involves taking advantage of circles and leverage.
In Japanese, sabaki means "to work with energy efficiently." It's a state of being that expresses strength coupled with ease and grace.
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