Learning how not to be a sheep
Bookworm on Jun 20 2008 at 8:22 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
This guy, Bill Kipp, will be giving lessons in my community soon and, barring some unforeseen event, I plan to be there. What’s so fascinating is that, despite being a black belt and a Marine, Kipp too was a sheep — something he knew for a fact because of the situations in which he found himself. He worked hard to overcome that sheep-like attitude, and now goes around teaching others how to use the adrenalin, not shut down because of it.
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Wish I could be there.
Heh. I have someone I think I’ll send that to. Very interesting.
“Verbal defense truly is the most important self-defense technique of all, yet it is missing from almost all self-defense training,”
I thought that was what the internet and blogs were for…!!!
Hope you find something of use to share back here, Book.
Give a sheep some fangs and claws, and he’ll still be a sheep. That’s the basic fundamental reality of nature. Good thing for human nature that we are so malleable and adaptable. We produce the strength, skill, speed, and endurance of the predators via the use of our brains rather than the use of our bodies.
The only natural weapon that nature ever bequested upon the human species was the human brain. Something you will always carry with you, regardless of how many metal detectors or anti-knife legislation the pro-criminal cabals create into law.
A very long time ago, I read somewhere that someone - probably Margaret Mead! - had done a study on some primitive tribes. One tribe had the cultural practice of feeding their nursing infants at frequent intervals, never allowing the babies to cry. The practice continued into childhood, always providing the childrens needs, never letting them cry. The other tribe however, required their children to cry loudly before they’d be fed. They never were given anything unless they cried for it - loudly. The “no-cry” tribe was peaceable, the “cry” tribe was war-like.
I think that as a society, we may have too much - I’m not sure we’re capable of defending ourselves anymore. We’ve forgotten how to struggle.
I look forward to hearing your report on this.
I’ve been rewatching the Strike and Weapons series of DVDs from targetfocustraining.
The one thing I took from it, as an addition, is the sheer number of possible targets that one might be able to choose from in any possible scenario. It is as near to infinite as to be indistinguishable.