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- From: tac@cs.brown.edu (Ted A. Camus)
- Subject: Re: poor technique
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.153837.25923@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:38:37 GMT
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- popovich@cs.columbia.edu (Steve Popovich) writes:
-
- >There seem to be two main solutions to this problem. At least in the
- >tournaments that I've been to, they've both been in effect, with one
- >backing up the other.
- >
- >(1) All attacks are focused short of where they would be focused in an
- >actual fight. That is, the attack goes to full extension, but that
- >point at which the attack finishes is within an inch OUTSIDE the
- >opponent's body, rather than an inch or more INSIDE, as they would be
- >in an actual fight.
-
- This is perhaps the worst way to do this!
-
- Learning proper distancing (i.e. mastering that last inch or two)
- is very difficult. It is much easier to switch from "pulling a
- punch" to "extending through" a target on command than it is to
- suddenly adjust the ma-ai (distance) you've been practicing all
- these years. That extra inch or two gives you a very dangerous
- false sense of security --
-
- -- Ted --
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