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Originally Posted by Liberty
Hi Mike. I was wondering, would this "size does/does not matter" be worth exploring further?
My uncle, for example, is a 5th Dan in Judo. He's a short guy and yet I've seen him take on guys bigger, way more muscular who not only had no problem mustering power, etc., but a lack of morality as they attacked - all of which aid in harnessing adrenalin -and yet my uncle was able to clean their clock using only his Judo.
Would you say that was perhaps due to what it appeared - to his having been able to have kept them within a range that nutralized whatever range they were probably effiecient in? Would this be a place/time/range where size perhaps does not matter? If so, would there be other factors?
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Technique can most definitely compensate for strength, size and weight. However you cant deny that those qualities are advantages. Strength, size, weight, speed, cardio, technique, and reach are all advantages; extremities in any category can help make up for lack of another category.
People always toss around the idea that strength, size, and weight can be neutralized but you gotta think to yourself, there's a reason there are weightclasses in boxing, wrestling, judo, etc. When the advantage of technique is equal, the other advantages become a lot more apparent, strength, size, speed, all that. BJ Penn himself said that strength was the greatest equalizer against technique.