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Agreed, I think we are talking about the same thing here - i would further add that fighting defensively is likewise one of the letters, complex pre-throw subtleties that you need to understand and control/anticipate before you can reliably attempt a throw of your own.
I guess thays my overall thought here - it was in response mostly to the advice of @TheFakeMacoy for a newbie to focus on attack. While i understand the sentiment, I also feel like if I had asked for help as a frustrated whitebelt and someone told me to have more confidence and attack more, I'd probably just end up more frustrated and more bruised. It's probably because im just a slower learner or less athletic, but it took me a long time to leaen how to throw at all. I won matches via ugly, drawn out dogfight and submission. It wasn't until I had a more intuitive sense of action-response, counters and timing that these throws id spent hundreds of hours drilling FINALLY began to work.
My path therefore sort of went the opposite way, I focused on defense and maintaining control and balance yhe best I could, and trying to drag the fight down to the mat to tire the guy out. Thus was a long time ago, too. I was all about the leg takedowns. I started developing a reliable uriname counter to opponents ipon attempts, and that sort of cracked the window a bit and I realized how important timing/countering is.
