| It may be that most of those involved weren't experienced enough for the automatic recall of skills.
It may be that the human instinct is more powerful than we, as martial artists, would like to believe.
It could be that your untrained eye didn't see anything. (I doubt this one, but I suppose it could be there)
It may be that, for many martial arts, the first moves that we learn (and so the first ones that come to our bodies) are very similar.
My guess is that it's a combination of two or more of the above, plus some other, unstated factors. |