The Importance of transitions

[bushido_man96]

I think any time you change your range, it is a transition, isn't it? For example, striking range could be broken into kicking range and punching range. Then, you get into infighting, then into clinching, grappling, etc.

Maybe?

[ShoriKid]

Not as big a transition as striking to grappling, but still a transition.

[tallgeese]

Yeah, it's a matter of degrees. Range changes from kicking to punching to the infight could easily be considered a form of transitioning. A bigger one would be to a clinch, then a bigger to the ground.

Also to consider, transitioning to a weapon for personal defense would count as a big form of transition.

Like I said, a matter of degrees of the transition.

[bushido_man96]

Yeah, I'd agree that, even with my very limited grappling knowledge, that the transition to the clinch and ground is much more difficult than that of standing strategies (infighting/outfighting).