Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:53 am
....gets inside....it's game over...agreed ... would Emma, Cathy or Tara succeed against Purdey's PanacheVA_Avenger wrote:Any Karate-ka who thinks Judo is a poor comparison is likely to be surprised. In a direct confrontation, the Karate-ka has the reach advantage. However, if he does not land a disabling strike or kick, and the Judo-ka gets inside, generally, it's game over.
Although it's a bit different, witness how many of the extreme fighting matches are won by grapplers as opposed to strikers.
I'm not advocating one discipline as superior to the other, but I've learned by experience that plans made on those types of generalizations gang aft agley. (With apologies to Robert Burns)
