Originally Posted by
David Jamieson
Well having read Sun Tzu, and still referencing him regularly, you don't want to be on a level playing field. You want to be superior in every way.
contests like sports combat have as much value as a movie or going out to a car race.
No one can say they will be effective in a 50/50 environment.
But the USA can expect to walk into Libya and put it under the gun inside of a short period of time.
Superiority negates the conditions where competition is seen as a way.
In martial arts competition produces a false sense of what the real meaning of martial arts is. That is to say to defeat your opponent in as quick a manner as possible.
If my opponent is stronger and greater than I, then I must resort to treachery and deception. Where he wants to hit me with his fist, I will stab at his gut and legs with a knife.
competition? It's martial, not contest for who get's a belt.
I want the guy to be down and out. I may not want to kill him, But I'm not going to compete with him, I will seek out the superior way to defeat his ass and use it pronto.
what's not to get?
What's not to get?
That the opponent will also:
resort to treachery and deception. Where he wants to hit me with his fist, I will stab at his gut and legs with a knife.
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !