About the lack of good shots -
I don't know nuttin' about how to do that stuff, but is there any chance that the sand was causing 'em problems? Seems like in a canvas ring or similar you can slide forward on a lead leg or knee more easily than on sand - that stuff pretty much stops you dead.
All my fight strategy is based on deliberately injuring my opponents. -
Crippled Avenger
"It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever get near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propoganda visits...Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecendented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
First you get good, then you get fast, then you get good and fast.