Trimation,
When I was considerably younger, and a bit more full of myself, my guro asked me why a eighty-pound dog can always take down a 200 pound man, even though the dog has never been trained in close combat.
Ever wonder why that is?
The worst butt-whipping that I have ever taken was from an emotionally disturbed man. He had no training, at all, in any form of martial art.
I was, and am, considerably taller, faster, heavier and better-trained than he was, or is.
He damn near beat me to death with his bare hands.
At another time, I was present when a Child Protective Services worker told a family that she was going to take their youngest child away. The situation went rodeo, and I wound up going toe-to-toe with the fourteen-year-old sister and barely came out on top. That untrained little bit stomped a mudhole in my butt and was in the process of walking it dry before I managed to choke her out.
During my hiatus from Law Enforcement work, I bounced in a gang-banger bar. The combined formal training of the patrons of that establishment might have added up to a week. Maybe.
My fellow bouncers were hired from dojos and training halls around the area. Muay thai/BJJ, shootfighting, White Crane, JKD, Shotokan, hell -- you name it, one of the bouncers was learning it.
Those undisciplined, untrained gangers were never taught the right way to fight. And they were never told that they should just go ahead and put their hearts in their pockets for safe storage.
They just kicked the snot out of us on a regular basis.
*sigh*
The answer to my guros question about the dog is because when a dog attacks, he puts his entire heart into the attack.
Just like the people in the above examples.
But, heck, what do I know?
LawDog
When I was considerably younger, and a bit more full of myself, my guro asked me why a eighty-pound dog can always take down a 200 pound man, even though the dog has never been trained in close combat.
Ever wonder why that is?
The worst butt-whipping that I have ever taken was from an emotionally disturbed man. He had no training, at all, in any form of martial art.
I was, and am, considerably taller, faster, heavier and better-trained than he was, or is.
He damn near beat me to death with his bare hands.
At another time, I was present when a Child Protective Services worker told a family that she was going to take their youngest child away. The situation went rodeo, and I wound up going toe-to-toe with the fourteen-year-old sister and barely came out on top. That untrained little bit stomped a mudhole in my butt and was in the process of walking it dry before I managed to choke her out.
During my hiatus from Law Enforcement work, I bounced in a gang-banger bar. The combined formal training of the patrons of that establishment might have added up to a week. Maybe.
My fellow bouncers were hired from dojos and training halls around the area. Muay thai/BJJ, shootfighting, White Crane, JKD, Shotokan, hell -- you name it, one of the bouncers was learning it.
Those undisciplined, untrained gangers were never taught the right way to fight. And they were never told that they should just go ahead and put their hearts in their pockets for safe storage.
They just kicked the snot out of us on a regular basis.
*sigh*
The answer to my guros question about the dog is because when a dog attacks, he puts his entire heart into the attack.
Just like the people in the above examples.
But, heck, what do I know?
LawDog
