Blog Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)
There is, mostly with few exceptions, a huge disconnect between what is taught as karate and what is relevant, efficient and effective in karate for self-protection. One principle that is often ignored is the KISS principle, keeping it simple is the most effective and efficient way to apply methodologies based on fundamental principles doable in the "heat of an attack." Think adrenaline stress-based realistic predatory asocial resource-or-process attacks BECAUSE the social violence of humans is ALWAYS avoidable. - cejames with a little help from his sources
If one’s training and practice are about the philosophical self-help side of the arts then we are all good to go and if one’s training and practice is all about the sport competitive side of the arts… again, we are all good to go YET if there is even one small aspect of it being taught as self-defense THEN we are doing our students a great disservice by not removing the chasm that makes the disconnect real so that they can step across the great divide and actually train, practice and apply the reality that is self-defense defense.
It has puzzled me for years now, since I began to see the light provided by the professionals (see my bibliography) who have gone to great lengths to pass along a bit of the wisdom they have achieved and gained by living on that edge between the safety, seemingly, of modern times and the reality that lies just under the surface that is true reality violence. All kinds, levels and degrees…
When the shift happened it was an “Oh Shit Moment,” that still surprises me to this day. I have no regrets because all that I did and accomplished and passed on were the very things that opened the door to my reality and the reality of reality in violence and self-defense and self-defense defense in self-protection. Those missteps provided me a solid base of understanding that if gleamed earlier on in my pursuit of martial knowledge it would have made a huge difference in today’s efforts YET that is not how the Universe works BECAUSE if not for those missteps I may have missed a lot more for the “TIME IS NOW” to accept, realize and understand that much of karate and martial arts lives with the disconnect that cannot be seen, disconnect that cannot be realized and the disconnect that is real, alive and dangerous… more dangerous in truth than the dangers if applying what you think, believe and assume is an ability to defend against violence/conflict.
Take a moment, see in your minds eye all the effort to jump that chasm that disconnects us from reality and the mystical make-believe of our self-defense efforts. There are a few out there that are doing this right now but all too few when you take a gander at the self-defense industry. This is the hardest battle to win, removing the biases and dissonances that hide the truth from us, ourselves, and leave us vulnerable to the square that is self-defense and karate and martial arts.
Take a moment, consider that what is stated is TRUE and visualize just how that matters to you, your training and practice and to the very applications you may need one day.
Kanpai my Martial Brothers, Kanpai!
For reference and sources and professionals go here: Bibliography (Click the link)
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