The most basic Washing the Body methodology is to flow with yourself such that you are eventually responsive enough not to even touch yourself.

The application is you are imagining being attacked from every possible direction.

Note the distinction between this and traditional kata/forms training which builds in unresponsiveness.

You train moving out of the way, return striking at every angle and height, using your entire body as antennae, not blocks.

John shows application of Washing and Polishing drill training to Contact/Combat Flow with 1 and 2 people.

Tremendous demonstration of creativity and improvisation.

John never goes against you directly, he takes your balance from indirect angles as part of the Washing/evasion process.

When opponent fights with tension, John Ghosts out of it and attacks areas that opponent has no connection to (his over commitment makes him less responsive and creates openings).

John makes the point that with unbalancing (or anything for that matter) you can’t do the same thing twice because the enemy learns – which completely makes the case that patterned self defense techniques are prescriptions for disaster.

And much, much more...