But football could be gentlemanly. You can't make a triangle choke gentlemanly. And trying to hurt people you're friends with requires some significant level of compartmentalization and cognitive dissonance.
We're seeing, right now, people trying to make football a safer, less intentionally injurious sport. You can't do that to boxing or MMA. The intent is to injure. The whole point is to injure or simulate injury. That's why they're called martial arts. Intended for war, where being a gentleman is an absolute no-go.
I guess you could say, "How do you do, sir (or ma'am, as the case may be)?" right before you shoot someone, but I feel that would be ineffective.
I roll BJJ and I disagree. The goal is to use a grappling move to force a submission. Some of the best moves that got me were downright elegant. The intent is to force a submission and NOT injure.
Otherwise, most oma platas would end up in dislocated shoulders and arm bars in hyperextended elbows.
As for the triangle, I used to think of it as a choke that required tons of torque. Nope. A black belt and I were rolling and he showed me that a little bit of thigh squeeze and...lights out.
Essentially, if someone loses track of a wrist, it’s just sweet to use proper technique to flip the hips, get the calf over the neck and...squeeze.
One can get injured doing martial arts (Krav Maga comes to mind), but even in competition, the intent is not to injure. Oh, and simply striking isn’t intent to injure any more than tackling is.
So, based on my experience, I would have to agree to disagree.
