Stabilize Your Base

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Stabilize Your Base


An idiom referring to the creation of a solid stance.

 

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Stabilize Your Base is commonly used interchangeably with Establish Your Base, but technically speaking, Stabilize Your Base can refer to Body English (such as a Body Settle), instead of a complete transition from a non-ready position to a ready position. This is also true for the term Solidify Your Base.

 

Establishing Your Base is often referred to as rule #1 in the context of Self-Defense.

 

Stabilizing Your Base is one key component to starting to Get the Upper Hand.

 

This term is used with the Zone Concept of Directional Movement to solidify and enhance defensive and offensive possibilities.

 

Base, in this context, is equivalent to Stance.

 

This term is commonly used to begin enacting the Preparatory Considerations.

 

A.K.A.:

 

Establish Your Base, Solidify Your Base

 

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Consideration, Environment, Leverage, Read

 

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