Here are a few of the things
that I have picked up on my travels about the modern enemy.
Note: It is important here to stress one point, fighting in the
street is rarely match fighting. Most affrays of the modern era
are 'three second fights': attacks preceded by dialogue that is
used as a leading technique to create a window of entry for a
devastating physical attack, that usually takes the victim out of
the game before he even knows that he is in it.
Match fighting, as honourable as it is, is an arena that died
with my fathers' generation. If you do find yourself in a
match fight scenario I will bet my trousers that the fight will
go to ground within seconds (most fighters are grossly ill
prepared for ground fighting). If the three second fight goes
more that the usual three, then in all likelihood this too will
end up in a match fight that will end on the floor. If you can
ground fight, great, you can tear the guy a new arse. lf you
can't you should expect at the very least an elongated fight,
perhaps even a brutal loss.