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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Subject: Re: Openings.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.072719.22126@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:27:19 GMT
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- Stephen_Y._Chan@transarc.com writes:
- > We have 2 different viewpoints on the matter:
- >
- > 1) No matter how good the martial artist is, there are _always_
- >openings which can be exploited by their opponent(s).
- >
- > 2) The _best_ martial artists do not give their opponents _any_
- >openings to exploit. Either by timing, or positioning, the openings
- >only occur when and where their opponent(s) cannot take advantage of them.
-
- 3) Martial artists often master their opponents by presenting
- "openings" that are only apparently so, and then slamming them shut
- at the appropriate moment.
-
- The question of whether you can actually fight without presenting
- *any* openings strikes me as not the critical issue. Regardless of
- the answer to that question, your opponent will eventually *think* he
- sees an opening and take a particular a line of attack. You can hope
- that he chooses poorly, but why leave it entirely up to him? There
- is a far better percentage in making yourself *seem* to be open to
- exactly the form(s) of attack that you can counter most decisively.
- --
- Richard A. Drury National Institutes of Health
- drury@helix.nih.gov 31/B3C27, Bethesda, MD, USA
-