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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

e.g. with the modern high spin/speed table tennis game, each champion is predictably a prime-of-life mid twenties from a training farm who beats down the opponent with faster reaction and speed

instead of a “strategic” game it becomes “overcome everything with large amounts of topspin”

it is ineffective as a general strategy towards life because life is not a bounded domain with a statically sized table, ball, and set of rules. there’s no way to put in the reps to ingrain the no-think-only-flow habits required for aggression