Originally Posted by
jesper
Nothing wrong with stepping back, circle or whatever as long as you maintain contact in order to finish the fight as quickly as possible.
Ofcourse there will be times when your forced to break contact due to various circumstances but it will always be because either you did something wrong or your opponent was simply better then you. either way you failed in that brief incounter.
Whether your able to still win is another matter.
Btw Vancuen its not an attack on you, because as you rightly say **** happens all the time in fights.
Contact does not equate or even lead to "winning" nor does forward pressure. That's the whole problem with this debate.
A single element of fighting like not stepping back, or maintaining of contact, or continuing forward pressure or striking isn't an indicator of success or failure. You could be giving forward pressure and hitting all day long but if it's not wearing him down or making solid contact what good is it? You save the barrage for when it is scoring...and doing damage.
Contact, pressure, footwork and the like are elements of the fight that change to support a general strategy or more specific tactic, nothing more. Bad and good are dictated by the result of the action.
...and nothing personally taken. I just like discussing fighting as much as do the practice of it.
Last edited by SAAMAG; 10-03-2010 at 11:54 AM.
"I don't know if anyone is known with the art of "sitting on your couch" here, but in my eyes it is also to be a martial art.
It is the art of avoiding dangerous situations. It helps you to avoid a dangerous situation by not actually being there. So lets say there is a dangerous situation going on somewhere other than your couch. You are safely seated on your couch so you have in a nutshell "difused" the situation."