Gennou [玄能] hammer.
Do we, in the karate self-defense community, teach practitioners the proper, optimal, use of the tool used such as the tate-Ken?
Every tool a carpenter uses has its appropriate use such as a hammer. You don’t use a hammer to screw in a screw and you don’t use a phillips-head screw driver to hammer in a nail.
In the use of our bodies there are “optimal” uses for the techniques, methods and strategies in defense against violence.
A good example by a known violence professional is the following question he asked as a participant of a defense class, “define the hard-to-soft/soft-to-hard concept!”
Go ahead, comment your understanding of this concept… I’ll wait… go on, write it and post it so we can come back to it later for discussion.
Meanwhile, do you train your guys as to technique-to-target viability to “get-r-done/man-down-now” in self-protection of being attacked?
Do you teach them when and where and what effect hitting (fist) is vs. an open-handed strike to an appropriate, stop the attack now, situation?
Most karate students are taught to harden the body and you don’t have to worry about where and what you hit because your calloused hardened fist breaks wood and stone and you now have that one-punch kill ability.
Meanwhile, ever hear of force levels and how that effects your impending you killed a guy you hit legal troubles?
Meanwhile, do you teach your practitioners that in the heat of violence under the influence of the adrenal chemical effects a lot of your hardened tools tend to soften up - a lot - because a lot of the mechanics and physics just tend to disappear under the influence, do you?
Although I am not in total agreement, this article does speak loudly to this issue… it inspired this article:
Meanwhile, do you break down the necessities of self-defense to the simplest form possible with the absolute least quantity of principled-based tactics possible to help avoid, the freeze, because the mind has to much crap to pick from…
Having a ton of trophies; a bunch of BB’s in as many styles; hundreds to thousands of self-defense drills… all that have to be accessed, processed and then chosen by the brain while enduring a blitz-like surprise overwhelming attack from behind with no help around under an overwhelms flood of adrenal mental and physical effects…
Need I go on?
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