Combatives vs Non-Combatives II

 This is to add to a previous Blog Entry...

Him Down Now... This is Self Defense, not Combat, not Fighting. You do what it takes to take the Fight out of the person attempting to assault you and get away to safety in order to call the Police. 

Him Dead Now... This is Combat, you seek to take the enemy out in whatever way possible, you seek to demoralize, to dehumanize, and to kill them, not simply take the Fight out of them in order to get away and call the Police. 

To add to that, a Fight can be Combat that does not seek to kill a person, but Self Defense is never about Fighting, it is about getting away and calling the authorities. 

If you seek to kill someone when it is not legally warranted in the civilized world, you will be prosecuted and sent to prison. So what does 'be more Combative' mean? This is a question that needs to be answered by those who make such a statement.

Not being able to answer this shows ignorance in both. 

What is more, being vague is like having someone wax your car and expecting them to block full force punches with the motions of waxing without giving ANY instruction or hands on experience to help them work it out. 

I can have you wax-on, wax-off my car all day long without giving an explanation; if I attacked you at random, out of nowhere, you would likely get fucked up real quick. 

This isn't the movies, there is no wax-on, wax-off here. Not without some direction that gives the mind something on which to focus, some sort of understanding that directs the Student in their endeavor to build skills necessary to deal with that sort of attack.

This isn't the 1980's either, we have all seen the UFC, we have all been exposed to that poor SOB in his Karate Gi that got wasted in the original UFC. 

We have the Internet as well, we have all seen videos of assaults with commentary, and SOME of us have actually experienced it enough times to call out bullshit when we see it. 

Karate IS effective when trained correctly, especially with knowledge of Ti thrown in there that goes more towards Principles Based training rather than perfecting technique for performance sake.

I have ZERO patience when people state such things, but do NOT know the difference.