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With Respect to the Door and Expectations....The REAL Reason 5e Can't Unite the Base
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<blockquote data-quote="Greg K" data-source="post: 6006146" data-attributes="member: 5038"><p>Yep. I have my own accounts where relative experience was a big factor at being able to routinely pull of maneuvers- in two accounts, I was the inexperienced person.</p><p></p><p>A long time ago when I did martial arts I had to work with another student that was somewhere from 13-15, because he was much larger than his peers. I was only a belt or two ahead of him and told that I could not use punches or kicks. Instead, I intercepted his attacks and outer reap throwed him at will (although I controlled his fall down). After watching for several minutes in amusement, the instructor pulled me aside, and told me that I could not use my arms. For about two minutes, I simply evaded with body shifting and jammed his kicks with my leg before getting tired and he grazed me with a punch to the rib.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, when I began my martial arts studies (the first time around), I used to spar with friends, who were brown belts in another style and served in Desert Storm. In addition I also sparred with my stepfather . Both the brown belts were surprised at the striking, joint break techniques I learned as a white belt, because they had not learned similar techniques until much later. They were impressed that I could get shots in and had decent timing from the limited sparring i had done. However, they quickly took advantage of my inexperience and quickly used it against me with feints to take advantage of my anticipation and faster reactions. </p><p></p><p>Against a friend with decades of SCA experience, it was not even close. He trounced another friend and myself several times (we had no weapon experience and limited unarmed training). He had a lot of quick economical maneuvers with a two handed sword which he often wielded more like a spear as opposed to swinging it around like the movies. The technique he used involved holding the sword in a manner that hid its length. When we, finally, began to "catch on" on to the technique and figure out the timing which is to say he could only hit us 6 or 7 times out of ten times. He mixed it up with or simply switched to another technique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg K, post: 6006146, member: 5038"] Yep. I have my own accounts where relative experience was a big factor at being able to routinely pull of maneuvers- in two accounts, I was the inexperienced person. A long time ago when I did martial arts I had to work with another student that was somewhere from 13-15, because he was much larger than his peers. I was only a belt or two ahead of him and told that I could not use punches or kicks. Instead, I intercepted his attacks and outer reap throwed him at will (although I controlled his fall down). After watching for several minutes in amusement, the instructor pulled me aside, and told me that I could not use my arms. For about two minutes, I simply evaded with body shifting and jammed his kicks with my leg before getting tired and he grazed me with a punch to the rib. Similarly, when I began my martial arts studies (the first time around), I used to spar with friends, who were brown belts in another style and served in Desert Storm. In addition I also sparred with my stepfather . Both the brown belts were surprised at the striking, joint break techniques I learned as a white belt, because they had not learned similar techniques until much later. They were impressed that I could get shots in and had decent timing from the limited sparring i had done. However, they quickly took advantage of my inexperience and quickly used it against me with feints to take advantage of my anticipation and faster reactions. Against a friend with decades of SCA experience, it was not even close. He trounced another friend and myself several times (we had no weapon experience and limited unarmed training). He had a lot of quick economical maneuvers with a two handed sword which he often wielded more like a spear as opposed to swinging it around like the movies. The technique he used involved holding the sword in a manner that hid its length. When we, finally, began to "catch on" on to the technique and figure out the timing which is to say he could only hit us 6 or 7 times out of ten times. He mixed it up with or simply switched to another technique. [/QUOTE]
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