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Distancing

Distance \Dis"tance\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Distancing.]

  1. To place at a distance or remotely.

    I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence.
    --Fuller.

  2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote.

    His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space.
    --H. Miller.

  3. To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly.

    He distanced the most skillful of his contemporaries.
    --Milner.

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distancing

n. The process of becoming distant. vb. (present participle of distance English)

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Distancing

Distancing is the appropriate selection of distance between oneself and a combatant throughout an encounter. Distancing is significant in an altercation as it determines both attack and defence options for all parties involved. Timing and tactics are also important elements of combat which are often used in conjunction with distancing by experienced martial artists.

Distancing is an important concept in all combative sports and arts. It applies to both un-armed and armed combat. In a martial sense, armed combat takes the form of traditional weapons practice. Given the enormous variety of martial arts weapons in addition to the various ranges of un-armed combat, it is possible to divide distancing up into many sub-distances or ranges. Indeed, many martial arts have their own uniques expressions for various distances or ranges derived from those they specialise in.

Distances may be divided up in a number of ways which include various combinations of major and sub-ranges. Although many styles train practitioners at varying ranges, most styles specialise in one or two major sets of ranges.

In a general, most arts describe each of the following ranges (from longest to shortest):

  • Non-contact range
  • Kicking range
  • Punching range
  • Clinch fighting range
  • Ground fighting range

In addition, a great may sub-ranges may be included. One example is the division of the punching range into:

  • Finger striking range
  • Punching range
  • Palm-striking range

All other ranges may also be subdivided in a similar manner.

Many martial arts focus on specific distances. Examples of this are as follows:

  • Kicking range: Taekwondo
  • Punching range: Boxing
  • Clinch fighting range: Wing Chun
  • Ground fighting range: Brazilian Jujitsu
Distancing (disambiguation)

Distancing may refer to:

  • Distancing, a martial arts term describing the proper placement of one's self with respect to an opponent.
  • Distancing (psychology), a technique used in psychological therapy and special education to encourage the early stages of cognition, particularly identity and the separation of one's self from other objects.
  • Distancing effect, a technique used in theatre and film
Distancing (psychology)

Distancing is a concept arising from the work of developmental psychologists Heinz Werner and Bernard Kaplan. Distancing describes the process by which psychologists help a person establish their own individuality through understanding their separateness from everything around them. This understanding of one's identity is considered an essential phase in coming to terms with symbols, which in turn forms the foundation for full cognition and language. Recently, work has been done in psychological distancing in terms of development, personality and behavior.

Usage examples of "distancing".

Although he knew she would have argued to the contrary, pointing out with that chilly, distancing manner she almost always adopted towards him these days that since she was no longer a part of his life, nor he of hers, there was no reason or purpose to have him hold any views about anything she did, he was quite extraordinarily proud of her and all that she had achieved, not just in establishing her business and turning it into such a successful venture, but he was proud of her and for her in many other ways, as well.

It was hard to focus my vision, through the grayness, through a peculiar distancing effect.

Perhaps it was only my present distancing from the vicinity of its occurrence that had helped to clear my mind.

Grey Hair, with his rifle, was in the middle of the room, distancing himself from it.

She admitted to Doctor Kenny that without that distancing it was hard to keep working without strong feelings getting in the way of efficiency.

He was distancing himself from her, maybe hoping she'd leave him behind with the others.

The odd distancing Kathleen experienced was obliterated by a sense of tremendous loss, the loss of Amariyah.

She looked over the tiers and then pulled Tolocamp off to one side, distancing herself from us, I'd no doubt.

He also made plain that he was distancing himself from Sigomal and Begamon.

This, too, is a useful and legitimate (if partial) inquiry (a Right-Hand approach that depends upon an objective, distancing stance and a relatively detached observer).

Instead of embrace, there was all too often a distancing gone mad, disengagement gone extreme, alienation and repression and dissociationall out of an understandable but ultimately insane aversion to anything that looked like "heteronomy.

Hermeneutics focused on the signifieds (LH), which could only be grasped from within by empathic participation, and structuralism focused on the signifiers (RH), which can best be approached in a distancing stance of exterior study.

The Morgawr walked around, looking at everything carefully, distancing himself from the rest of the party as he did so.

He wanted to believe it was the latter, but try as he might he could not come to terms with her seeming betrayal of him when he was captured or her clear distancing from him since.

Everything about him was so revolting to her that it was impossible to think of doing anything other than distancing herself in any way she could.