Answer #3

EQ: What is most important to competing as a top rated competitor in Martial Arts Tournaments?

Answer: One should be able to work their ring on their opponent with quick, short, and snappy side-stepping instead of doing it slow and looking cumberstoned.

Evidence: -Side-stepping has helped balance out a fighter's offense and defense for sparring.

-Bill “Superfoot” Wallace has made effective use of it in his sparring and it proved to be great since it helped him surprise his opponents.

-Bill “Superfoot” Wallace always did find fighters to be either too offensive minded or defensive minded without a little side=stepping.

Source(s): My main source for this answer was #9 C “The Ultimate Kick: The Wallace Method To Winnning Karate” Chapter 3.