Hitting and Being Hit

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What happens when you get hit? What happens when you hit someone else? The more one knows the subject, the less one has to worry if they are getting it right especially at that crucial moment when an "enemy" attacks. 

Let me begin "the rest of this story," by providing you an awesome source on hitting and being hit by Marc MacYoung. It is about how one "writes about violence" and I can tell you know it is a solid source for everyone regardless of their intent when in training and when practicing the art of hitting and being hit. 

"Writing Violence III: Getting Hit and Hitting," Kindle edition by Marc MacYoung.

Note: He has many publications and I like to recommend his writing violence series simply because, although for writing purposes such as fiction, these books are most excellent in teaching and understanding concepts like, “Getting Shot; Getting Stabbed; Defense; and Getting Hit and Hitting.” Oh, and he does have all four bundled for kindle as well for $11.99 too!

In my recent article titled, “The 20% Solution,” I go into the need to have “contact” when training and practicing because without that concept and model there leaves way too much variable in self-protection that the missing link, hitting and being hit, leaves a large chasm to leap across to avoid “the freeze.” 

What I am advocating in this article is, “The how, the why and the intent of such training and practice.” It matters that the type of hitting and being hit matters as there are differences when you compare what is allowed by “the rules” in the sport model; there are rules and conditions to the social monkey dance fight; there are major differences in the predatory asocial type of enemy and their attack methods and methodologies that far diverge from all the others. 

Yes, there are similarities and yet when labeled with appropriate words, patterns and concepts work while without appropriate words, patterns and concepts fail miserably. You have to categorize them accordingly, apply the appropriate training and practice models to make them appropriate concepts with triggers and then you have to practice toward experience with those differences in mind to achieve solid, efficient and appropriate actions/responses in the mix. 

This as you probably already know means there are differences between technique(s) and technique-based drills especially for self-protection; there are rules that effect the training and practice along with applications in the wild; there are emotional and physical affects and effects involved; and there are massive differences with things like, “adrenal stress-conditional training along with reality-based attacks and protective actions in the asocial arena. 

Mr. MacYoung’s writing books are great primers and his other books as well lead to proper methods and methodologies because his, and others of like experiences such as Rory Miller, are derived from a life style involving all sorts of aggressions and violences from the reality of the real world. 

Have fun, fun in learning is the best way to create and manufacture the concepts to triggers models necessary for all sorts of intentions in martial disciplines and karate systems to include self-protection/defense…”You just gotta let it in man, just let it all in!”

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