- Liittynyt
- 16.12.2003
- Viestejä
- 35
Tässä nyt vähän textiä Geoff Thompsonin suusta, aiheesta itsepuolustus. (Lukekaa ajatuksella=tärkeää)
Avoidance - hard targeting.
Make yourself a hard target by avoiding volatile environments - we all know where the tossers are, so don’t be there and you won’t be a victim. As actor James Coburn so succinctly put it ‘avoid arseholes and big egos, avoid places where arseholes and big egos hang out’. Also, don’t be an arsehole and don't have a big ego yourself.Most confrontations are avoidable if you are aware and use your common sense. Situations that can’t be avoided can be controlled if you leave your ego in your other suit. For those situations that cannot be controlled you might have to swap some leather. Be the hammer or the anvil, dead or alive - again the choice is yours. It is at this point in the procedures that a sound background in fast running or hard fighting will come in handy.
Escape - don’t fight when you can run.
If you know it’s going to kick off, put your beer down, take your ‘arm candy’ and make haste to another watering hole. Knock your ego on the head and escape to a place where a punch in the eye is not the native parlance. You know it makes sense. If you mates want to ‘have it’ let them ‘have it’ all to themselves, and if they don’t like it I say choose better mates.
Dissuasion - talk it down.
If the natives start growling, try and talk the situation down. Again, the battle will be more with you and yourself than it will be with you and them. Don’t be afraid to tell them that you don’t want trouble and beat a hasty retreat. And feel good about it; any one can have a fight, better to follow the Judo adage and ‘walk away with confidence’.
Posturing - scare the shit out of them.
If you think it might work, make like a woolly mammoth and attempt to psyche your antagonist out. This entails becoming animalistic; shouting, salivating, spreading your arms, bulging your eyes and dropping into single syllables. This is often enough to do the job. Soon as they back off make an exit yourself.
Pre-emptive attack - hit them first.
If all else fails and things start getting primal and verbal threatens to become physical, the concept of defence is not sound. Blocks don’t work! They can be about as useful as castor-sugar water skis unless you really know what you’re doing. If you honestly believe you are about to become target practice for the brain shy, hit them before they can hit you. The police buzzword is ‘reasonable force’, but trying them down to a coherent definition is like trying to trap a shadow. If I am pushed so far that I have to become physical I hit them so hard that when they wake up their clothes are out of fashion, then leg it. That’s it in a nutshell. Physical self-defence can be summed up in five words: learn to hit ****inghard!
If you do employ the pre-emptive attack make sure you know your legal rights or you might be in for a double jeopardy when you have to defend them against the second enemy - the law.
You dictate ‘reasonable force’; although you may have to defend your interpretation of ‘reasonable’ in court. If you are so frightened by an assailant that you have to hit him with everything but the missus, then that is reasonable force. If, however, you knock someone to the ground and then do the ‘chippie riverdance’ all over their head, you’d be stretching your luck. I can’t guarantee that you won’t end up in the dock, but it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
:kippis1:
Avoidance - hard targeting.
Make yourself a hard target by avoiding volatile environments - we all know where the tossers are, so don’t be there and you won’t be a victim. As actor James Coburn so succinctly put it ‘avoid arseholes and big egos, avoid places where arseholes and big egos hang out’. Also, don’t be an arsehole and don't have a big ego yourself.Most confrontations are avoidable if you are aware and use your common sense. Situations that can’t be avoided can be controlled if you leave your ego in your other suit. For those situations that cannot be controlled you might have to swap some leather. Be the hammer or the anvil, dead or alive - again the choice is yours. It is at this point in the procedures that a sound background in fast running or hard fighting will come in handy.
Escape - don’t fight when you can run.
If you know it’s going to kick off, put your beer down, take your ‘arm candy’ and make haste to another watering hole. Knock your ego on the head and escape to a place where a punch in the eye is not the native parlance. You know it makes sense. If you mates want to ‘have it’ let them ‘have it’ all to themselves, and if they don’t like it I say choose better mates.
Dissuasion - talk it down.
If the natives start growling, try and talk the situation down. Again, the battle will be more with you and yourself than it will be with you and them. Don’t be afraid to tell them that you don’t want trouble and beat a hasty retreat. And feel good about it; any one can have a fight, better to follow the Judo adage and ‘walk away with confidence’.
Posturing - scare the shit out of them.
If you think it might work, make like a woolly mammoth and attempt to psyche your antagonist out. This entails becoming animalistic; shouting, salivating, spreading your arms, bulging your eyes and dropping into single syllables. This is often enough to do the job. Soon as they back off make an exit yourself.
Pre-emptive attack - hit them first.
If all else fails and things start getting primal and verbal threatens to become physical, the concept of defence is not sound. Blocks don’t work! They can be about as useful as castor-sugar water skis unless you really know what you’re doing. If you honestly believe you are about to become target practice for the brain shy, hit them before they can hit you. The police buzzword is ‘reasonable force’, but trying them down to a coherent definition is like trying to trap a shadow. If I am pushed so far that I have to become physical I hit them so hard that when they wake up their clothes are out of fashion, then leg it. That’s it in a nutshell. Physical self-defence can be summed up in five words: learn to hit ****inghard!
If you do employ the pre-emptive attack make sure you know your legal rights or you might be in for a double jeopardy when you have to defend them against the second enemy - the law.
You dictate ‘reasonable force’; although you may have to defend your interpretation of ‘reasonable’ in court. If you are so frightened by an assailant that you have to hit him with everything but the missus, then that is reasonable force. If, however, you knock someone to the ground and then do the ‘chippie riverdance’ all over their head, you’d be stretching your luck. I can’t guarantee that you won’t end up in the dock, but it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
:kippis1:
Onkos kukaan lueskellut hra Thompsonin kirjallisuutta...?
