Porres.com – Eric's Humble Place in Cyberspace

Grappling! Not to be confused with grappa or gravity, the duration of this evening (at least while I was there) was spent grappling.

A: Opponent tries to throw you
D: You counter-throw
A: Opponent counters back and brings you to the ground
D: Then what? You could counter-roll or do any number of things. As soon as someone lays hands to you, your entire attitude during the confrontation needs to change. The person who walks away alive is the one who had more will. Just ponder all the stories of confrontations for centuries where someone (or a group) was outmanned, outgunned, etc., and yet he/she/they won the battle. Fight to survive, and you may live.

Good ukemi will enable you to move to a position sooner than your opponent expects it, which can give you leverage in both time and space to produce a counter.