RE: Acknowledgement

["Christopher M Faulcon" <mfaulcon@or.atinc.com>]

Poster: "Christopher M Faulcon" <mfaulcon@or.atinc.com>

I don't think your analogy quite carries out. In practice, I am
concentrating on form, targeting, position, movement, follow-through, and
return; in tournament, I am concentrating on killing the poor bastard that
drew me in the list. The difference is that in practice, I throw a blow that
I think is a killing blow. In tournament, I throw a blow that anyone will
acknowledge as a killing blow.

There is no set force level below which it is too light, and above is too
hard. Acknowledgement is a range, beginning at 'just enough' and going up
through 'almost too much'. It's quite right, and expected, to throw at the
low end of good in practice, in order to conserve energy, and to work on
other aspects of fighting. It is also quite right, and expected. to throw on
the upper end of good in tournament, in order to assure the your opponent
has no question as to whether or not s/he was struck a telling blow.

Martin
Atlantia, Trimaris, etc...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu [mailto:owner-atlantia@csc.ncsu.edu]On
> Behalf Of phillip jones
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 10:37 AM
> To: Eli White; merry rose
> Subject: RE: Acknowledgement
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> 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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