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- From: robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: More fogey fighting
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:40:43 GMT
- Organization: Institute of Cognitive Studies, U.C. Berkeley
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- In article <74350@apple.apple.COM> mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) writes:
- >In article <BxsE18.2t8@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >>Right, but while they may have a great idea of what to do, their
- >>physical strength will be less (although they will be stronger than
- >>their contemporaries) and hence their reaction time will also be
- >>slower.
- >
- >It doesn't matter how much faster you are if the other guy knows how to
- >consistently take a position that eliminates the advantage of speed.
-
- Or, to put it another way, it doesn't matter what your reaction time is like
- if you are able to make sure your opponent is the one that does all the
- reacting.
-
- I saw an old fogey escrimador spar one of his senior students at a demo once.
- During the entire "match", the student was never once in a position to take
- effective offensive action. He just kept getting immediately stuffed
- (when he wasn't busy picking himself up off the mat).
-
- Of course, for this to work, the fogey does have to completely outclass his
- opponent. But keep in mind that this discussion started when some little
- snotnose punk claimed 10th dans were full of shit and that he could kick butt
- on any 70-year-old he met.
-
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