Fixing round length in GURPS

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Originally Posted by Say, it isn't that bad!

It's been over twenty years, to establish a time, since I took karate; I no longer remember nearly as much as I did. This thread has helped bring some of it back, though. :)

However, I still watch various types of sparring videos on Youtube, and the circling seems universal. In cases where circling does not happen, they re-engage. Or the initial clash turned into a grapple; in which case arguably the initial clash didn't end.

As for an explanation why; I don't know. It may be due to a natural instinct to try to get to the side or behind the opponent; it may be out of a hope that you can "pull" the opponent into making a mistake.

Note that this is explicitly for one vs one; if there's more than two combatants, simple circling seems a lot less likely.

Points to Shotokan Karate Black belt Men Sparring - Charleswood vs Lac Du Bonnet IDSL 2012 as a counter example. And Karate-Do Shotokan Sparring (Kumite) is another.

There is Circle sparring but from what I have seen of it, it doesn't have actual circling.