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- From: shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Self-Defense Books
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 19:54:56 GMT
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- In article <BzFpBJ.2sE@sju.edu>, tmoody@sju.edu (T. Moody) writes:
- |>
- |> Trained martial artists are likely to know a
- |> great deal about delivery of power, timing, and distancing. They may
- |> not know so much about patterns of attack/assault, targets, and
- |> confrontations.
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- I believe the key word here is trained. It is all a matter of how
- one trains and what one encounters while training.
-
- |> Again, some arts *do* claim to integrate all of the above--Kung Fu San
- |> Soo and Krav Maga come to mind--but many don't.
-
- Krav Maga is not a martial art. It is also very limited in its
- scope, but thats beside the point.
-
- |> One way to do complementary self-defense training is to form a small
- |> group of interested people, a book to use as a text, and begin
- |> practicing. What I'd like to do here is start a discussion on books
- |> that people would or would not recommend as texts for this purpose.
-
- Well, while this might work I tend to be pessimistic about the idea.
- My own feeling is that people should train within their own styles
- first for things that will work. This will probably prove more successful
- as they should have some of the techniques down pat and be familiar with
- others. It will also be easier to merge the two than a new form.
-
- Yes, by all means pick up new forms and try them out occasionally
- to complement ones you are already familiar with, but looking outside
- of ones own form is usually unnecessary.
-
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- Shai Guday |
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- Thinking Machines Corp. |
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