Rikai dekiru [理解できる]
Knowledge comes from four sources (thank you Rory Miller):
- Experience
- Reasoning
- Traditions
- Entertainment and Recreation
Experiences in violence is rare unless one works in fields of expertise dealing with violence AND as Rory Miller puts it, “violence is extremely idiosyncratic!”
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Reasoning means you will search in familiar areas, for you, that you “feel” may work then teach that and it is said, “reasoning is weak.” You cannot know what you don’t know and what you don’t know you don’t know (I believe Marc MacYong said that last).
Reasonably you might ask first what is a surprise blitz attack and then look for what’s needed and find out how to get that.
Reason is theoretical while reality is …
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Traditions is historical and was recorded in concepts such as kata but as written by one more knowledgeable, “are the lessons taught by teachers with actual experiences, is the teacher several generations removed from the one with experiences is what’s being taught derivative of the entertainment and/or sportive industry? Because, each one has different principles and concepts that are not always appropriate to what you’re facing in that moment.”
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Entertainment and recreation AND self-help psycho concepts are not reality. I read an interview from one martial movie star who said what he does is for drama and camera angles, etc. and not the reality of violence. Yet a lot of modern martial defense concepts and methods are drawn from what a teacher saw, thought was cool and relevant, on the big or little screen.
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The comments above are mine and mine alone and if you read Mr. Miller’s article linked in this blog entry you can draw your own conclusions and that’s good.
The idea I have come to seriously consider, till more comes to my research efforts, that one must receive data, analyze it with other diverse viewpoints, then test it out and then “hope and pray” it works if you find you can’t avoid and/or deescalate … you know you don’t know and you can only discover what you don’t know you don’t know through hard work and a shit-ton of hard, honest and open-minded work.
Side Note: I remember in boot camp the day we went to the range for live grenade practice. In the training I understood completely the required steps to use a grenade. One story was don’t stand with your back against a thatched was and toss one in the hooch doorway because the shrapnel will make quick work of you as well as the occupants. Our live fire exercise was behind a three foot cement wall where we took the stance, pulled the pin, drew back behind the ear, let fly the IMMEDIATELY DROP completely on our stomach on the ground behind the wall, cover the neck with both hands and wait for the boom. (See, I still remember the process from training)
Now, you know what comes next, what I did instead, right? I crouched down like in the TV show Combat, covered my head … until I felt the D.I. Throw me down on the found and laid beside me telling me kindly to “you fucking idiot, cover you neck …!” The boom happened and if he had not threw me down I would have had shrapnel hit the top of my head … 😬
Have a G-Day mate!
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