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aggression as a playstyle/strategy in sports and games basically means to play in a way that gives the opponent less time to react this is unintuitively the core secret to tempo/flow/ooda

for racket sports it can be returning the ball right off the bounce for a trading card game like magic or hearthstone it’s filling the deck with cheap fast cards with starcraft, it’s zerg swarming

this is unintuitive because aggression usually feels “stronger” but in practice is actually “weaker but FASTER” “punching through a defense” relies on speed not strength

it is also why ooda as a strategy mostly does not work the real time nature of the required aggression means there’s isn’t time to sit back and think like a chess player it’s not an actual strategy. it’s a collection of habits.

the right habits and “way of being” have to have already been ingrained prior to the confrontation ironically, this makes ooda the least flexible, most simplistic, and luck dependent strategy

it succeeds primarily in strong bounded domains like fighter jets, tennis, ping pong, dota, etc… because the rules don’t change, all strategic nuance can be stripped from the game if u boil it down to a battle of pace