shobu and shiai --winning and losing in ultimate fights

Head to head in a competition-a real "technician" will probably get beat by a real "champion"- and a real champion will probably be able to repeat that amazing feat a few times in a given day--where the real technician excels is in wiping the floor with everyone else continuously and repeatedly all day long -- day after day --

the champion burns bright and burns short- if you wanna knock down dam near anyone on earth for a few times, become a champion-- if you want to take out a hundred guys in a row and keep on clickin-- burn slow and and get spooky efficent -- get the technical difference

technicians train to shobu (life and death) --competetors train to shiai (games of victory an defeat)

when your training is geared to the depth and breadth of survival and reality you must aquire a good degree of competency and build skills across the board because of the high degree of uncertainty and chaos in the equation-- when your training is geared to winning a game, then that skill set becomes much narrower-- you dont need all the tools anymore because the rules of the game have eliminated much of the uncertainty--shobu requires polished generalization, lots of failsafe redundancy, and broad strategic thinking; while shiai requires specialized conditioning, narrow focus, sharp tactics, and lots of well honed monotony.

from the sho-bu perspective (the real "ultimate" fight) --i like this quote:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert A. Heinlein