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- From: jtchew@csa3.lbl.gov (Ad absurdum per aspera)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Getting to grappling range.
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:55 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- I don't know about YOURS, but any of MY prob-stat profs would be on the
- floor in a coughing fit by now, having snorted up his own pipe ashes at
- the very thought of trying to resolve this problem analytically.
-
- In a small sample, you've got two overwhelming confounds: individual
- talent and dumb luck. If the opponents are of different sizes, add a
- third, namely, the ways in which one art might be better suited to a
- certain approach. And rules. Oh, yeah, rules. (Whaddaya mean I can't
- foot-sweep the referee and use him as a shield when shoving my opponent
- out of the ring? :) Get a lot of fights with a large pool of competitors
- (preferably with some open-weight-class free-for-alls) and them MAYBE
- someone good at multivariate analysis could pull something out of it.
-
- --Joe
- "Just another personal opinion from the People's Republic of Berkeley"
-