Excellent work my friend !
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Excellent work my friend !
For sure, a blade can really change the outcome of any fight, so can a 2 x 4 across the face.
Guns go without saying of course.
The issue is that not enough fighters bring what they do best INTO what they do worse.
Going on with the striking grappling issue, strking skill takes more time to develop AND maintain than...
You have in a way, made my point.
A natural striker, coming in to the game, will never get tot he level of a natural grappler ( we can substitute the term preferred for natural is you like).
And to...
Yep, 100%.
We fight with our strengths and the weak link isn't our 'weknesses", its the inabiblity to keep it where we are strongest.
Why?
In my view we all have weakneses, no one has a compete...
They had their preference and fought to the strong points and won more often than they lost based on how well they kept it in their preferred zone.
That's all I am saying.
***** !
We have seen the likes of Chuck Lidell and Randy Couture, amongst others, as fighters that have a preference for a certain range and what happens to them when they get caught outside that range OR...
They don't.
Don't confuse a traditionalist with a ****head :D
The tradition of virtually every MA is a tradition of fighting effectiveness.
The developers of virtually every MA developed them to...
Oh yes, I agree, my point was that just because you HAVE to learn to fight while grappling, that doesn't mean you "give up" your striking if that is your strength.
Although many do end up...
There is a trick though:
First we must identify our strenghts and weaknesses and then overcome our weaknesses VIA our strenghts.
EX:
If your strength is striking ( and that means one of 2 things:...