She had good timing and awareness of distance.
Her footwork was crap and she was lucky the other guy was so slow and didn't know how to take her out when she was teeter-tottering back and forth.
You can get away with that footwork only in karate point sparring where people only throw onesie-twosie type attacks. Bonus points for loud kiai to make the judges think you actually landed.
My students have gone harder against opponents outweighing them by 90 pounds, and they actually used combination attacks and had the other guys repeatedly backed up into the walls. I had to tell one student to ease up. The opponents were blackbelts and had real skill. Not like whatever that guy in the video was doing.
So is that your girlfriend or something?
As long as she always moved her back leg first, her feet and her opponent's body were always on a straight line, she would be OK. At 1.54, her right leg was on the left of her left leg. It only took her one "cross legs", her stand up game would be over.
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Of course if her opponent didn't know "foot sweep", she would be OK.
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I might have trouble on that score - I'm a large guy and even now that I'm starting to get back into fighting shape I'll still weigh in north of 250.
But that means I also know first-hand how much of an advantage weight gives in a match. I've beat more skillful opponents by dint of
- Not being hurt by their best strikes.
- Being able to rush and crowd them without worrying about getting knocked down.
- Being able to land hits from way outside of my opponent's range.
When I said that fight was not fair to either party I wasn't criticizing the woman's skills. I was just pointing out that the reality is training only takes you so far - a weight and reach advantage, combined with even average skill, can make a challenging opponent for basically anyone.
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she does have skills to be sure, but if any of you think that was anything other than friendly sparring, you are deluded, or her opponent is dense. or both.
4:40 he could have easily stepped in and dropped a knee onto her face/neck and ended everything.
i'm not taking away from her skills in the slightest the girl has them. but that was in no way a real fight or a full contact sparring match. it was a friendly sparring match with editing.
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