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- From: wag5@quads.uchicago.edu (john peter wagner)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Openings.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.220529.28884@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 22:05:29 GMT
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- >In <C1D4xM.Br4@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> burdickd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Dakin Burdick) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >Eric Sotnak | One life.
- >esot@troi.cc.rochester.edu | One chance.
-
- Hmm. I don't claim to be a 'master,' so I really can't
- speak for the guys who call themselves 'masters,' but I would
- think that giving abstract values to concepts such as 'defense'
- would not be the way of a master. It seems to me that basically
- a person is given their body and a certain scenario through
- which they flow. The master has 'mastered' the control of
- his body and the efficiency with which he organizes his body with
- reaction to the scenario at hand. Thus, an opponent would be
- an activated blob of protoplasm which would be to some extent
- rational, and the MA artist should be able to sense the state
- of that blob of matter, and be able to fulfill his goal given
- the scenario, be that escape or termination of the 'life processes'
- of the opponent or whatever. 'Defense' seems to me to be like
- when chess players give numerical values to certain pieces and,
- say, value a certain few squares abstractly. These players are
- not masters. These players are trying to simplify the problem
- so that they can understand the simplified form of it. Unfortunately,
- it is not too tricky for a 'master' to take advantage of this
- tendency to simplify.
-
- John
-