What If...
You pulled out a knife to stab someone and they did anything other
than injuring you, what would you do? You’d probably just stab them.
What if you pulled a gun and they took it away? Would that stop you? Are you done? Or would you hurt them?
If, on the other hand, they blinded you and gave you a concussion, well, now that’s something to work with…
In a nutshell, if the man can think and move, he can end you—so we
must only do things that take away his ability to think and move.
Monkeying around with what’s in his hand doesn’t do anything to that
end,
and it wouldn’t stop you, so what makes you think it would work on someone hell-bent on killing you?
Techniques are cool but require specific static setups and lots and
lots of practice to build the coordination required to pull them off,
setups that may or may not be present during a murder attempt (though
most likely not) and fine motor coordination deteriorates and needs to
be refreshed every 72 hours for best results. Much better to stick with
the only thing that actually exists in lethal force violence, and
that’s ATTACK & INJURE.
Now—that’s not to say you can’t also do other things
while you’re injuring him, but that injury
must
take precedence. Once we have the ability to break things inside the
human machine, we can then add other movement for other effects
as long as it’s in service to the injury.
The above is a scenario putting YOU in the attacking position. But, what if you were the defender? You should have only one goal in mind. No to-do list of defensive techniques. No "if I do this then this will happen and blah, blah, blah, blah etc. No, you have one goal: Hurt your attacker and make it so he or she can no longer take aggressive action toward you.
Yes, it really is that simple.
