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Basic tactics - Dropping
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Basic tactics
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Dropping
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Broken canvas...
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Bottom: White fails to drop to the second line ...
Dropping, for want of a better name, is a way to avoid a cut by an opponent's ring threat by 'bending it outward'.
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