[MR] 'Point of Honor'

[jbrmm266 at aol.com]

Steven Chang wrote:


<I do find that I fight women differently than guys on the field. It is because they move differently than guys. Women are more flexable and generate more power from the hip, so I do treat them differently when
I'm fighting them.

Is that wrong?>

That, my friend, is simply adapting your style to your opponent's style.  If  you encountered a man who fought that way,  you'd make the same adaptation.

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The question of fighting women differently becomes a courtesy issue when a fighter does things like patronizing a woman fighter, or ignoring her blows, or not hitting full force, or any of a million and one things that show some sort of contempt.

Your adaptation is technical, and therefore raises no issue of courtesy.

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Your servant aye

Donal