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Old 03-28-2007, 12:00 AM   #34 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by WildWest. View Post
This is quite true. The early UFC's showed that when the pressure's on the combatants "lost" their training in their styles and reverted to haymakers and wild brawling.....basically he who made contact first usually won. It does tell you something. Perhaps it tells you that despite all the theoretically practical techniques that you can learn in MA's, if you don't possess timing you don't possess anything.
Very well said!

When you look at most of the old masters, they were all small men. What was it that made them so formidable? They struck first. They struck fast. And they struck with everything they had.
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