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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!gdt!aber!azw
- From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Self-Defense Books
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.100635.18286@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:06:35 GMT
- References: <BzFpBJ.2sE@sju.edu> <1h7rqgINNmu7@early-bird.think.com>
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- In article <1h7rqgINNmu7@early-bird.think.com> shaig@Think.COM (Shai Guday) writes:
- >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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- A favourite hobby horse of mine. The key word in martial arts is 'arts'.
- They are ancient, traditional, stylised and philosophised. They are also
- useful in self defence but in an informationally inefficient way.
-
- Self defence puts the emphasis on 'martial' and to hell with the rest.
- Effective self defence is minimalist and efficient, and the philosophies
- involved are purely those of natural selection.
-
- If you wish deeper inner knowledge, etc. Martial arts are the thing.
- If you merely wish to be as invulnerable as possible as quickly as possible
- look to the better ex-military self defence courses.
-
- Its all horses for courses really. You wouldnt hire Rembrant to paint your
- shed.
-
- Happy Xmas
-