From:	gilean@****.muscanet.com (Kurt Montgomery)
Subject:	Re: Phys Ads and Melee Combat
Date:	Thu, 2 May 1996 16:34:28 -0500

>I tried to lobby for "no defense until you'd acted" but was stonewalled by
>slower members who used arts like Aikido as examples (while I still know
>that a slow Aikido practitioner is as good as toast in a fight against a
>faster opponent, they didn't like to believe so). Also, it does unbalance
>the game against the speed-impaired (which is realistic, but not much fun
>for them). So that didn't take, nor did the "defense only" bit.
>
Point out to them that Aikido has no strike attack, tell them that if they
want to use Akido, they may declare that that when it is their turn to act,
no defenses until they have the option to move.
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