Originally Posted by
papes
While playing Blind Fight I had the thought, what if Uke wasn't in the way during opener creation? It would allow for some pretty wacky openers, but it may also step too far outside the bounds of real gameplay and introduce too much randomness / anti-competitive play. Still, if you've tried it out internally or do in future I'd be interested hear about it.
I felt that having no Uke in front of you during opener creation only makes it harder to estimate potential fights' outcome as you don't see whether your hits connect (at least against an idling opponent). And while you may be able to create wackier openers with no opponent in front of you, it ultimately doesn't matter once your opener gets matched against the opponents.