Lord Vutulaki wrote:Okay so what Im taking away from the ice hockey fights ive seen is that I want to grab the opponent's jersey, use his as an anchor point while pulling him forward and off balance and try and get a good cross off on the button?
Yeah, it's a fight for superior balance and grip position. The sweaters are tied down now, that's mandatory which makes it very grappling intensive. The old tactic used to be to pull the opponents sweater over his head and feed him uppercuts with his arms immobilized by the sweater but Bob Probert revolutionized fighting in the eighties by ALLOWING the sweater to be pulled over his head, eat some punched while working free of the sweater and then attacking with no sweater to grab onto. Complete game changer and soon adapted by the likes of Chris Nilan, Marty McSorley and others. it's a fighting game that's changed a lot over time but the basic principle remains Frye/Akiyama ie free swinging.