My question came up after watching a hard2hurt video of the knife attacks in Paris and New York. In the video, Icy Mike – a self-defense trainer with the New York Police Department – explains that in emergencies we use what we’ve learned, which is part of the reason a boxer in New York thought he was fighting a gunman , since he was taught to go into battle and KO his opponent. He ended up dying because of this instead of running away.
The same in Paris, when a man attacked small children with a knife. Everyone involved did what they could do best and what they learned in such a situation: screaming, throwing bags around, jumping off a slide, or doing nothing at all because they were paralyzed and never learned to flee and be driven keep jogging/walking.
The question is – when an ancient martial art like aikido or judo tells you to face the opponent, or in the words of the founder of aikido – “You have to illuminate the line between life and death. Regardless of what may arise, you have to be ninety-nine percent ready to take on the enemy attack and face death[…]”
If I learn such a martial art with this sense for years, which might still have made sense for a samurai, but means more suicide for me, since I was programmed to go into the enemy attack and neutralize it, then I’m actually practicing ignoring all my natural instincts and escape mechanisms because I should face my death in order to become a perfect master.
In the end, I throw myself into the attacker’s blade like a kamikaze flyer.
2023-07-09 17:18:36
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