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- From: esot@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Sotnak)
- Subject: Re: Openings.
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- In <C1D4xM.Br4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
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- >Whenever your opponent attacks, he creates an opening. Since the best
- >martial artist will never attack, there is no opening.
-
- You don't really mean this, do you? If the MAist is just standing like a
- stump, does that mean there are no openings (since s/he isn't attacking)? I
- don't think so.
-
- I'm inclined to think that openings exist wherever a target is not
- perfectly portected. Since there are seldom (if ever) perfectly protected
- targets, there are always openings. One's ability to PROTECT those
- openings, by blocking, removing the target from the line of attack, etc.
- varies according to circumstances and the abilities of the parties involved,
- but the openings are there, nonetheless.
-
- My $.00000002 worth.
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