Combat - Battle of the Nations style.
Picked up my toys and had a serious whack against someone else for the first time in two or three years, maybe four. This guy fights in the "Battle of the Nations" style, which is an international Western Martial Arts tournament fighting to a rule set that some consider controversial.
I got flogged, but it raised some interesting (to me at any rate ( Read more... )
I got flogged, but it raised some interesting (to me at any rate ( Read more... )
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Whether you change what you do or not depends on whether you care about performing well in that martial sport, as opposed to performing well in the martial art of sword fighting.
Me, I'm firmly on the side of martial art - do what is right and will work to win in a real fight, including consequences.
Martial sports is a whole separate thing, with different skills.
I've had a similar experience a long time ago sparring bare hand vs a judo guy - once he grappled me, he'd throw me, but in a real fight, I'd have hit him in the head twice and kicked him hard enough to break things on the way in.
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