I have often been confronted with the argument from modern or eclectic martial artists that karate or other traditional martial arts are deficient because they use what I call "blocks" [ie. parries or deflections] as their primary means of defence rather than purely evasion (as in boxing).
[In relation to the effectiveness of blocks, note my article "Why blocks DO work".]
As I said recently on the fightingarts.com forum, it seems that the above article has at least shifted the deba...
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