| From: | Michael Broadwater <mbroadwa@*******.GLENAYRE.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: the uac dilemma |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:17:53 -0500 |
>Sure, A fight COULD be over that soon, I one
>of the two scores a lucky hit, or gets to hold his opponent in a
>position where he can't escape, but chances are, especially if both
>use rather strike and kick techniques than grabs and chokes, that the
>fight will last about half a minute at last. Just wach boxing...
>They fight for several minutes... even in Judo, the fight lasts
>longer than just a few seconds.
>
Well, the two styles you mentioned (judo and american boxing) are both from
tournament format. While I'll admit that fights can/will last about 30
seconds or so, they aren't _usually_ going to go beyond that. Boxing and
judo, in tournament, aren't designed to kill your opponent. I'm not
harshing them for that, it's just true. But take a non-tournament fighting
art (Silat, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Gracie style Jujitsu, Kali, etc.) where one
fighter is either better than the other or gets an advantage, and you will
have a short, painful fight.
My problem with the current Sr uac is the fact that specializing in a
specific martial arts style has no drawback. If you've only fought one
style, practised one style, studied one style, and never really contacted
another style, you're going to have some serious problems when you
encounter someone who knows a different style. Example, how does a boxer
counter a pak sao lap sao? If all you've ever done is box, you won't know
what to do when someone throws a weird manuever at you. My current Gm
(Topcat) is the guy who convinced me of this (luckily, not by slapping me
around:). The house rule we use is that if you specialize, you can only
use your specilization when you fight someone fighting in the same style.
Works well, and reduces the powergaming potentials of specializing in a
style (actually gives it a drawback.)
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