Well, I’m basically talking about what your most instinctive reaction would be if a kick (or other threat, such as an errant soccer ball), would rise up to your groin area or maybe midsection. I think, instinctively, people will tend to cross their arms in front of their body and scoot back their hips to stop the kick/threat.
Of course, that action alone might not be sufficient to stop a kick and could even injure or break your bones. But if that’s what you’ll do instinctively, it would be easy to train yourself to \”improve\” upon your instinctive reaction, by adding a body defense and the scooping motion to it, thereby redirecting the kick past you (and not taking any impact on the bones). With your arms crossed and hips back, you are already in the perfect position to do this motion.
Since in KM we usually try to take instinctive motions and then \”improve\” them to make a better defense (raising your arms in defense against a stab into a 360 block for example), using the scooping defense as an instinctive defense (as opposed to or in addition to the other one shown in the book) might make sense.
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Giantkiller
