Finally a half-decent chapter. Good job Ha-min, going balls to the wall berserk is the most interesting thing you've done so far. We keep getting chapters like this and I may have to change what I think about this series. Art was good this time as well.
That being said? There were still a few problems. One, Maria should label her style as Muay Thai, since that would more accurately represent what she's done in the manga thus far. Her style got changed to just -- from BJJ, it seems, so I guess that's a soft retcon ever since she basically stopped using BJJ. But instead of that they should have just called it MMA. Secondly, the first point in the analysis (and most interesting, two and three are basically just "she's really strong and talented") is badly worded. This feels like possibly a translation error.
The lady describes Maria as
-relying on knees and elbows to increase power
-using accuracy to compensate for the shortened range of relying on knees and elbows
But the whole discussion feels weird, since she says "to her, knees and elbows aren't close range attacks". But, they are, otherwise she wouldn't have to compensate for short range by using accuracy. Besides, it's physically impossible for your elbows and knees not to be short ranged unless you're hugely tall and even then they'd still be shorter range than your punches and foot kicks. That's basic anatomy. How does accuracy even compensate for range? Surely that would just increase the damage output. Wouldn't accuracy be better used with punches and foot kicks since that way your damage output increases but your range doesn't decrease?
And why does Maria even need to bother with putting such a major emphasis on power ahead of range when the very next point the coach makes is that her co-ordination increases her striking speed? (the faster your blows hit, the heavier they hit because of momentum/torque, which is a crucial aspect of several martial arts especially taekwondo).
So, good chapter, but the coach needs to be fired because her explanation of Maria's fighting style is borderline insane.
