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Combat Construct: Gauntlet
Style is difficult to quantify and its just as hard to prove in a full on violent confrontation. To
this end a formation known as a gauntlet is used to provide jitsuka with a chance to show off their
best techniques
What is a Gauntlet?
A gauntlet consists of two lines of would be attackers usually spaced two to three mat lengths apart with
an attacker every few feet. The jitsuka must walk (in stance as much as possible) along the gauntlet pausing
only to deal with their assailants. The jitsuka keeps progressing from one end to the other until the controlling
grade (who stands at one end facing down the middle of the gauntlet) calls for a stop at which point the jitsuka
runs to the starting end (opposite the controlling grade) to rei off.
The Gauntlet: How to Win
The aim of the gauntlet is not to jump the jitsuka from both sides at once, but to give them an opportunity to
demonstrate their favourite techniques. Style and sometimes a bit of theatrical flair are what is required
to come out on top. Ideally every technique is different, every armed attacker is disarmed, every attacker is
finished off.
Style is a very subjective thing, but try to use long flowing movements and make everything look as though its
almost trivial for you to do, but at the same time requires a lot of skill to pull off.
Even though it is a chance to show off, don't think that the attacks will be slow or weak. In order to do great
techniques, you rely on great attacks, so keep moving, keep a moderate pace, but most importantly keep the attackers
flying.
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