Having just finished a great seminar on the subject of the tactical application of Aikido, with an emphasis on law enforcement application, there's a few things running around in my head.
The first of which is what's the purpose of martial arts? Self defense. Period. Full stop. End of story. The martial arts are not a game, they are not a sport. They were invented as forms of self defense, and we should really remember that. Bad guys don't care about rules, or as a police officer your department's rules and regulations.
Bad guys don't follow the rules; if they did they wouldn't be in prison. Read that again and think about it.
The bad guys train to beat the good guys. Whether it's escaping while hand cuffed, running with leg irons, or fighting from a 5-point restraint, or stripping an officer's weapon from their holster, the bad guys are bad for a reason.
It has been said that 20% of the population causes 80% of the problems. As a martial artist, the 80% of the population with no combat training doesn't really concern me -- that's the sort of the thing that should be trivial to deal with. Of that 20%, even the first 10% ain't that bad. But, that last 10% of real bad animals, that's who you want to train against.
If you train against the worst case scenario, everything else is easy.
Teaching, Training and Conditioning
2 days ago
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... and always train as if the bad guy is 6'3" and 250+ pounds ... a great takeaway from Cliff Norgaard.
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