I want to add a caveat as I may have seemed somewhat against contact which I'm not against. My first line I said I took both sides of the issue but went off on a contact rant. I also may start to ramble since I'm trying to hurry a thought through while on office time. : )

I don't want to be too ...

I agree on both sides of the issue as much as a contradiction it may seem at face value.

I'd like to share some surface observationa and a train of thought.

My original instructor was very, very good with form but not neccessarily freestyle fighting. He was very picky and soon put overly confident ...