Just have instructed a seminar on self defense in NYC and it is interesting to note some response relative to being shown how to systematically use the tool of violence for survival.
The instructors are a matter of fact job picking various vulnerable areas of the body people and showing how malign the target. We use the ownership of a system that allows the student to learn how to vilify the body in a certain way to yield the desired results.
Then we show them how to use that information to the serial cause injury people to other people is non-functional. This method produces results literally mere days used to make us many months to achieve.
Clients quickly get good at targeting, after injuring the specific areas of weakness in other human.Don 't get me wrong. It is not always something a beauty to watch. Participants are often disagreeable to their 'look' but their effectiveness is no question.
What is coming my clients have actually survived violence with this approach to personal care training immediately. They realize the techniques and principles of sound and they focus and make goals during the first first day of the session.
The clients who either have no experience with violence or just have competative martial arts or combat sport backgrounds often spend the first part of the session asking why we are doing what we do.They wrestle with the idea of violence being so one-sided. It goes against everything they 'know' about the 'real fight'.
Of course this knowledge to bring them course is from watching the media (film, TV, Internet) or from participating in combat and watching the sporting event. The main purpose of the media is entertainment. Producers want to be involved in the plot and if there is an action sequence they want you to fasten your seat.
The main purpose of sports fight is to win by bettering your opponent and scoring more points. Both can be very fun to watch.
Both of these medium have restrictions that strictly limit the realistic use of tools of violence. A good film is the prohibition of keeping you entertained so need only to ... interesting.
The opponent in a sports event fight was hampered by the agreed terms. So they rely on developed athletic skills (being bigger, faster, stronger) to better the other person and win the competition.
Become the world accurately reflect the effective use of instruments of violence. Hindi rin sila. This would defeat the purpose of the 2 mediums.
From an entertainment perspective, the real violence is difficult to see, not because of the violence but because it is relatively boring because it is for one sided.In competition, with real violence left many competitors crippled, maimed, or killed. It is absolutely defeat the purpose of sporting event.
Where all this becomes a big problem when someone attempts to use the medium as a benchmark for 'fight'. Expect to see many 'give and take' when training. They have a hard time realizing that the real damage is not something that can shake off and 'keep fighting'.
In a recent introduction I was for a business group at Harvard University I hammered it home by using some video clip of a martial artist showing a knife-fighting demo.
He made some claims about the knife and how a good cut is to shut someone down and send him in shock. He showed his assertion in a hanging piece of meat. It all looked very impressive and can I tell the class is mesmerized.
Then I showed them grisly photos of inmates in a fight to cut many times, right up to the bone. The prisoners are not only survived the attack - they killed their 'attackers'. It is quite went against the knife-fighting expert's claims.
I then showed two other video clips, back to back, the inmates 'shanking' (through a temporary stabbing tool) another prisoner until they killed the victim. Again look that is unique to the nice back-and-return method of 'knife-fighter' showed his impressive demo.
When I finished there was dead silence. I made my point and the rest of the time we can focus 100% complete.
I can not show this recent class of video and it showed. Some people will not get it 'until the last day when we' Grabs, Punches, chokes and holds.
That's when they saw how much simpler it is the use of violence rather than try a 'give and take' approach. I'll make sure to always include video upfront in future seminars. The old adage that a picture worth a thousand words is very true!
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