• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    For a guy who is seemingly all about strategy, at least according to him in his own head, I do find it extremely funny that he fell for essentially the most basic strategy in martial arts.

    If you blow your load all in round one, and this doesn’t instantly capitulate your opponent, you then have to survive all the other rounds, while exhausted, depleted.

    If your entire strategy revolves around having the capacity to execute attacks with overwhelming force… you can’t do that when you are exhausted and depleted.

    The most insane thing is that like Joe Rogan from 10 years ago, a self-described dumbass who does know a bit more than the average person about combat sports… would have been able to tell you that.

    You can only be a person like Trump if you’ve never been punched in the face, and not been able to do anything about it.

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      2 days ago

      you then have to survive all the other rounds, while exhausted, depleted

      Rounds? That’s sports martial arts. There are other kinds where there are no rounds, no points to score. Some of the things I learned how to do would get me disqualified from any tournament, no matter how “no rules” it claims to be.

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        2 days ago

        I mean, same here, I also know techniques that are highly not allowed in any tournament or training / sparring / kumite.

        But the existence of forbidden moves does not negate the concept of rope a dope as a strategy.

        Like, just because its possible to say, punch someone in the back of the head, or go for a takedown in a stand up only fight… this does not somehow make rope a dope… not a widely known strategy.