This Aging Population Thing
Posted By Randy on January 23, 2016
If taking away your physical skills means taking away all of your self-defence, you ain’t got shit. You might be a great fighting instructor, but everything you have only works when most good self-defence has already failed. Also, it’s all perishable. It won’t help you if you manage to get old enough, and realize that all your skills and techniques are as perishable as your body. ~ “This sort of people.”, Swimming in Deep Water
Reading the profound article I quoted above reminded me of a piece I wrote and published here as part of my In Ferro Veritas series back in the summer of 2013 –
This brings me to the topic of the day – Respect for Life.The woman I refer to has made a decision that makes her a threat to only one class of being, Human or otherwise – that which would seek to enter her personal space and do her harm. In this, she is showing Respect for Life at its most basic and primal. She is Respecting her own, and in so doing demands that others do the same.
“Do nothing which is of no use.” ~ Miyamoto Musashi
I’ve said many times before that for creatures in Nature, getting through a day is very much an exercise in energy management. Investment measured against return. The Way of the Wild doesn’t hold it up as a good idea to expend valuable energy and expose the self to risk of injury or immediate death by attacking and killing out of such base sentiments as boredom or sheer malice, and defensive measures offered by the presumed “prey” are what hold potential attackers in check. Nothing in Nature meekly submits. It’s flight or fight, all the way! ~ In Ferro Vertas – Chapter the Third
In this progressively more dangerous world, all aspects of the human condition needs must be considered, and so I urge you to consider the contents of all that I’ve placed and linked here.
Here is my contribution to “This sort of people.” In true Kaufman fashion, I was hard-pressed to ‘mince’ my words.
Self-defense? It is all very simple and as a proponent of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, I can honestly say that the problem here is the ego driven nitwit martial arts instructor who is under the impression that everyone is capable of understanding and applying techniques that have no reality outside of a controlled class setting. Too many instructors are trapped by their own lack of understanding reality in that they themselves have never been ‘into the shit” though they do invariably have idiotic high ranking belts that suggest they may know something.
When it comes to teaching the elderly it is essential to understand their own motives, (the elderly) and work to free up a survival mechanism that may be dormant, but is in everyone since the cave days, and with fundamental encouragement is readily brought out to function according to the specific individual.
After all, what is the purpose of self-defense? It is to get out of harm’s way with as little effort as required and to do this an intelligent system of safety awareness is the prime objective. then, of course, stabbing some son of a bitch in the eyes with a pen or a key works as well.
With an attitude of nothing to teach these sort of people .. the wanna be teacher is a fucking idiot.
Here is my contribution to “This sort of people.” In true Kaufman fashion, I was hard-pressed to ‘mince’ my words.
Self-defense? It is all very simple and as a proponent of Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, I can honestly say that the problem here is the ego driven nitwit martial arts instructor who is under the impression that everyone is capable of understanding and applying techniques that have no reality outside of a controlled class setting. Too many instructors are trapped by their own lack of understanding reality in that they themselves have never been ‘into the shit” though they do invariably have idiotic high ranking belts that suggest they may know something.
When it comes to teaching the elderly it is essential to understand their own motives, (the elderly) and work to free up a survival mechanism that may be dormant, but is in everyone since the cave days, and with fundamental encouragement is readily brought out to function according to the specific individual.
After all, what is the purpose of self-defense? It is to get out of harm’s way with as little effort as required and to do this an intelligent system of safety awareness is the prime objective. then, of course, stabbing some son of a bitch in the eyes with a pen or a key works as well.
With an attitude of nothing to teach these sort of people .. the wanna be teacher is a fucking idiot.
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I run into this bullshit almost everytime I get a group of non-elderly people trying to get me to prove that what I am teaching without getting into ferocious retaliation would work.Older fold have a different perspective in that they are generally too scared not to do something. (Little understood by fierce monstrous 15th degree super duper blackbelt assholes)
What these schmucks don’t seem to understand or maybe simply do not want to understand is that self defense is exactly that – self defense and you do whatever you golly gosh darn (you like that?) is required to maintain safety and personal security. NO, studied t3echniques do not always work, but the idea that a potential attacker can determine that they might be the victim, based on the attackees attitude is what is relevant. End of fucking story
Know thy self