Some says speed can defeat power.But i think those who have the power will also have speed.If you say no then why cant light weights cant defeat heavyweights.
2006-12-10 19:26:41 · 10 answers · asked by deva 3 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
as a physical aspect, this has always been a heated debate - with better speed, you will be able to dodge and land more hits than your opponent, but if you are more powerful, you might not land as many hits, but when your hits do connect, they cause much more damage than you opponent's. By the way, who says lightweights can't defeat heavyweights? they only made those classifications so it would make things "fair".
2006-12-10 19:38:52 · answer #1 · answered by tecsklls9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. Look into the history of Brazillian jiu-jitsu. Royce Gracie's Grandfather, Helio Gracie weighed only between 140 - 150 lbs, and only was defeated twice his entire life. His first loss was to the world jiu-jitsu champion, Masahiko Kimura, who outweighed Helio by over 80 pounds. The second loss in his career was to a former student, and the match lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes!
Helio Gracie suffered as a child from lots of illnesses, and was considered very frail. Read his biography in the source I have provided.
What Helio perfected has evolved over the years, and is now the fighting style tought to the U.S. Army.
2006-12-11 14:21:45 · answer #2 · answered by rawlings12345 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mind over all. You have to find a balance of speed with power, you can be lightning fast but not have any force behind it, and you can be really strong but if you can't hit a guy you might as well pack up and go home. Heavy wieghts can ninety five percent of the time beat lightweights because they are all trained technique, speed, and power. Just because you are big does not mean you are slow, a heavy weight boxer for instance can still throw a fast punch, and with that much weight behind it, a quick and solid left jab from say, mike tyson, would still be stronger and just as fast as my power punch thrown with my right. So power can defeat speed, but i've been in fights with guys twice my size, just because they think they have to prove something to their friends by being assholes, and i rip them apart because they can't hit me, because i am trained, and they are not. I can use technique to get the most power out of my hits while losing no speed because i have practiced and trained that way. But a person with the same training as me, and larger than me, would have a good chance of beating me just because of that fact "he has the same training as me" a heavy weight boxer has the same training as a lightweight boxer. They both are fairly equal in mind, so one has to look to the superiority in body. It's not to say that the lightweight boxer couldn't beat the heavy weight boxer, just not in boxing, that would be playing his opponents game, and he would get beat. He would have to outsmart his opponent through other methods that are not allowed in a fixed environment such as boxing, or martial arts. A good strike for a smaller faster person against a larger stronger person could be attacking joints, such as a quick kick to the knees, with all that weight to support damaged knees would hinder his mobility, leaving the speedier person with all oppurtunities to avoid the attacks that he slowed down. Figthing is all a mind game once you have the skills.
2006-12-11 23:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by Roy B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither are important, they're only products of improving technique, if you train long enough and dilligently enough, you'll have both through time and experience.
The most important thing to do is balance out the difference between the two. and that can only be done by training and applying what you've learned by improving upon and polishing the technique.
and rawlings unfortunately Helio Gracie is Royce Gracie's FATHER not grandfather. Helio Gracie has fatherd 9 children (8 boys and one girl, his oldest son Rolls Gracie died in an accident in the 70's) and has 33 grandchildren.
2006-12-11 22:46:44 · answer #4 · answered by quiksilver8676 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Power doesn't automatically=speed. In a real fight, power is more important. As an anology, consider a machine gun & a tank cannon. Which shoots faster? Which is more powerfull? Which 1 wins a battle between the 2?
2006-12-11 10:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones with power don't have necessarily to have speed too...
Maybe if we are fast, we can use our opponents power against them, tire them out, trying to avoid the next move. Then it would be possible to win using a weak movement...
Those without strenght just have to use speed as an advantage, I guess.
2006-12-11 03:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by toxicidade 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was always told to practice method, and the speed and power will come.
Depends on the sport I suppose.
2006-12-11 03:56:24 · answer #7 · answered by jaydelovell 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
brain and will power decides anything.
even a lightweight fighter will be able to defeat a heavyweight fighter if it is a matter of life and death for the lightweight fighter and it is not for the heavyweight fighter.
2006-12-11 03:35:03 · answer #8 · answered by the_justin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
your speed and power need to be equal that is the key.
2006-12-12 06:12:42 · answer #9 · answered by soki 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you an idiot? how many times are you going to ask the same question?how many idiots are going to answer the same question from the same idiot?
2006-12-11 09:05:33 · answer #10 · answered by BUSHIDO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋