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With Rose Namajunas getting another crack at the UFC straw-weight crown this weekend, now seems as good a time as any to explore one of fighting’s more abstract concepts.

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Rose Namajunas: On Long and Short Rhythm - The Fight Primer

It is in switching seamlessly from the narrow, bladed stance to the spread out stance that Namajunas can combine her darting in and out and slips-to-counters so successfully. Where the first Joanna Jedrzejczyk fight was one dominated by Namajunas' quick closes from the outside, a large portion of the second bout was won with counter punching flurries from this more squared, slipping stance.

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