Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20131124211317/@comment-14909251-20140529044106

Exactly, competitive fighting would be a controlled and structured environment with rules and restrictions for her opponent. Having experience in that does not prepare her for live combat. Weiss, having apparently no experience in any sort of combat outside sparring, is more unnerved by live combat, but her weapon in conjunction with her Semblance makes her quite powerful.