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- From: taddiken@ms.uky.edu (scott taddiken)
- Subject: Determining the winner of a "friendly" inter-arts duel.
- Keywords: inter-arts sparring
- References: <1992Nov12.154446.2702@ms.uky.edu>
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.133056.20661@ms.uky.edu>
- Summary: Inter art training can be done.
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:30:56 GMT
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- Within "Getting to grappling range", a thread which I began during last week,
- Joseph and Mary have brought up some interesting points about how to determine
- the winner of a "friendly" inter-art duel. While this is a fascinating topic,
- it is also a new one, hence the subject line change.
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- My definition of "friendly" here is:
- 1) A certain amount of protection is worn by the combatants, because as Mary
- pointed out, things can get a little messy.
- 2) Effort is made to avoid seriously injuring the opponent. If the striker
- stuns his opponent, he does not finish him off. If the grappler gets a grip
- on his opponent, he does not break an arm. Occasionally this means
- swallowing one's pride, and allowing the opponent to believe that he has
- scored a victory.
- 3) No method is agreed upon to decide the winner of the bout. IMHO, this is
- as important as the other two (and bears upon the last sentence of #2).
- I have done this only twice, and my feeling is that this kind of training
- requires people with very good attitudes and pretty strong abilities in
- their respective arts. I enjoyed myself enormously. I learned which of
- my abilities were effective and what vulnerablilities I have.
-
- I certainly hope the "Getting to grappling range" thread doesn't die right
- away. Todd titilated me by saying that some Chinese styles have very clever
- ways of closing the gap while receiving minimal punishment. I'd be very
- interested to hear about some of those methods. Also, do aikidoka agree with
- Todd's assertion that the aikido methods of getting into grappling range are
- so specifically oriented to aikido techniques that they would not be
- particularly useful to, say, an Olympic wrestler who finds himself in a
- fistfight? Precisely what technique do you think might be helpful?
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- Scott A. Taddiken, University of Kentucky
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