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Ron Ragusa wrote:
Hypothetical: Practitioner A executes technique against practitioner B and is successful. Practitioner A executes same technique against practitioner C and is unsuccessful.
Question: Is the technique martially effective or not?
Ron
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How do you know Part.B is trying? or Part C? This is why a contest will ensure both are trying their best, but certainly two contests won't give one a conclusion. But how about 50 contests and unbeaten? Beaten only twice? 5 times? What if he does 10 contests and loses 5, 6, 7, all of them- something's wrong with his technique, it'd be safe to say his MA is not martially effective. What would you be comfortable with?
How many experiments in science to reach a conclusion? What is the criteria in science for a conclusion?
This does make it more signifcant for Osensei, in his 80's to say he's unbeaten.