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- From: krause@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Mike Krause)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:37:13 GMT
- Subject: Re: Openings.
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- / hpindda:rec.martial-arts / drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury) / 11:27 pm Jan 22, 1993 /
- >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.
- >--
- An excellant point. One thing we teach when it comes to knife fighting
- is to leave certain areas open that you can actually control. This creates
- a focus for the attacker and give you a better chance of controlling the
- blade. For those who don't believe, a blade moves much faster than most
- people think and the ability to actually block it and control it are
- very difficult to master, more so, IMO than open hand combat. So, the
- idea of creating an opening has definite merit and can be used to actually
- limit the attacker's options and thought process. BTW, this idea is
- also useful when fighting people of different styles, for instance, if
- fighting a person who does a lot of kicking, leaving certain opening seems
- to focus the kicker on that area which allows the defender to control the
- attack. I've used this strategy often and it seems to work.
- Richard A. Drury National Institutes of Health
- drury@helix.nih.gov 31/B3C27, Bethesda, MD, USA
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