Breaking it down into steps: When you look at the application of a jiu jitsu technique it's natural to fixate on the outcome since that's the goal of the technique and the most noticeable part of it. Understand however that the technique you observe is the last part of a surprisingly long chain of events. If any of those initial steps failed it's unlikely you'd have ever seen the final technique. It is of the greatest importance then, that you identify those previous steps and devote as much energy to their development as you do to the finishing technique, since those preliminaries are just as essential as the final step in the success of the sequence overall. Just what those preliminaries are will depend on the move itself, but in the vast majority of cases it will involve maintaining your own stance and balance whilst breaking that of your opponent. Make a sincere study of the art of stance and breaking stance and the moves you seek to employ will seem like an afterthought
