{"id":2138,"date":"2014-01-08T06:26:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:16:05","slug":"alls-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/alls-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"All&#8217;s Fair&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no rules in a fight, we ask who won, not who fought the best&#8230;After all; all is fair in love and war.<\/p>\n<p>As most of my students know I rarely look at them when we are sparring.\u00a0 I look past them, to their sides, up or down, I have my reasons but initially the students see this as a weakness, they quickly learn it is actually my advantage.\u00a0 Since I didn&#8217;t have time for a long post today I thought I&#8217;d use the following graphic to demonstrate what I mean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ping-pong.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2139\" alt=\"ping-pong\" src=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ping-pong.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus I find this insanely funny, just makes me giggle every time!\u00a0 Perhaps I should get some more sleep&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no rules in a fight, we ask who won, not who fought the best&#8230;After all; all is fair in love and war. As most of my students know I rarely look at them when we are sparring.\u00a0 I look past them, to their sides, up or down, I have my reasons but initially<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/alls-fair\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button \">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,54,94],"tags":[51,55,22,75,180],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-fun","category-styles","category-technique","tag-fun","tag-funny","tag-perspective","tag-sparring","tag-technique"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatetraining.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}