RE: Acknowledgement

[phillip jones <jonesj@InfoAve.Net>]

Poster: phillip jones <jonesj@InfoAve.Net>

People are quite certainly suggesting that there should be a multi-tier
standard of calibration. There shouldn't be. Part of a well-thrown blow is
focus and follow through.

In both Karate and Kung fu classes I'd do as you suggest when sparring
without equipment. But we also sparred in protective gear, when the point
was to deliver as full a blow as possible. That is what we are doing, I
thought. I'm supposed to hit you with enough force to "tell" through
chain-mail and padding. Snap doesn't quite get it: it takes punch too. A
proper blow is an entry requirement into the game, and is a matter of both
technique and modest physical ability. If one can't throw one, one doen't
get to play.

People are also getting quite personal in all of this, and I find that
unfortunate. I found one personal characterization wrong, and tried to
exlain why I thought so.

Phillip Jones


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