I agree with Nomde. Rather than pigeon-hole yourself or anyone into one style or another, what it all boils down to is timing. Once you reach a certain point the only thing that differentiates one fight, flight or campaign from another is timing. Timing more than any other single factor determines success or failure in any form of combat, whether it be for the fleeting instant of a snap-shot opportunity or a protracted campaign.
Whether it's the brief fraction of a second it takes to squeeze off a fatal burst of fire to the guaging of the ebb and flow of a pitched battle between two fields, timing is what determines outcomes. Timing is what you lose first when you are out of practice. Timing is more of an intuitive 'feel' than tactical dogma. Timing is that subtle voice in your head as you are engaged that says, "Ok, pull for lead....NOW!". An excellent sense of timing is only gained by alot of experience in a wide variety of situations and requires alot of anticipation of an enemy's likely next move and intentions. Timing is what sets two relatively equal pilots apart in terms of the cummulative end results they achieve. Timing is just that "Knowing' you are in the temporal 'G' spot for that critical manuever or shot. It's combat intuition in real-time motion.
Knowing the correct time to energy fight, angles fight, stay high, get low, keep fast, remain slow, drag 'em down, pull 'em up, run like hell or take the shot is what determines success or failure. Do any of those things at the incorrect time and one of two possible outcomes will transpire.
1) You will Die.
2) You will fail to Kill.
Either of those two outcomes means you were unsuccessfull. No matter for which tactical doctrine you have the greatest affinity, everyone endeavors to kill and would rather not die. Timing is the critical factor that determines this, no matter how you choose to fly. It's so simple, yet so subtle, an easily understood concept that can never be totally perfected or mastered just by virtue of the infinitely dynamic nature of combat.
Timing is everything.
Zazen
