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The Boogey-Man" Part 3 The Shifting Sands

So, I ask again, YOU! Those police officers, soldiers, high risk job-holders, even you citizens out there who have experience who are now reading this...has there ever been a hot time where your fine motor skills and verbal skills, hell all skills, did NOT fail you? Of course! You thought clear. You moved concisely, shrugged off obstacles. You lifted powerfully. You trigger-pulled smoothly. You saw precisely. You heard definitively. Any or all of three above.

How many of the instructors on the market place, doing their target-focusing, shredding, startling spears, wheels, et al., really have, themselves, gone through multiple life and death situations to grasp the real big picture, that adrenaline may be a great help and does not always disable you into a dull, moron status?

In the end, we all know down deep that there are just some people who should not be in the military battlefield or street police work. They are perhaps genetically disinclined to handle the street or battlefield. They need to be selling Italian shoes at the mall, or at least working in vital, troop-support positions. You cannot change everyone into into a warrior. You cannot expect everyone to thrive in chaos and ride the wave of adrenaline into victory every time the bugle calls.

The proper training process weeds these individuals out. First experiences weed these people out. Seeing the elephant is important. Training with the elephant-seer is important. Training in the elephant seers' courses is important.

Your students come to you from all these genetic, pre-disposed levels. Work with them to produce the best end-product. Try as you must. Push them. Push the envelope a little each time. See how far they can go as individuals.

Sports psychologists Dr Daniel Landers and Stephen Boutcher havd done extensive research into the personalities of athletic performers and have learned that a large disparity exists between preparing people for performance. You must first identify traits of the person, then use methods for that personality.

As we know there are just some people who should not be in the military battlefield or street police work, we know that there are people teaching self defense and personal protection that also should not be. Their heady ideas are based on paper-thoughts, not the hot asphalt or thick swamp, or the shifting sands, or the jungle floor.

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[Big Rob]

As we know there are just some people who should not be in the military battlefield or street police work, we know that there are people teaching self defense and personal protection that also should not be. Their heady ideas are based on paper-thoughts, not the hot asphalt or thick swamp, or the shifting sands, or the jungle floor

I completely agree that there are many people that should not be teaching self defense, However I do not see why I would want to train with someone who proved them selves on the Jungle Floor, Personally as a civilian I should not be training in Police and Military tactics. As a matter of fact Police should not be Training in Military tactics and vice versa. Between Civilian, Police, military, Spec Ops, their ideals, objects and situations differ so greatly that the tactical systems taught and employed daily are not compatible with each others goals. Not to mention that Police and Military have minimal self defense training programs, the programs are designed for the job and the job is a lifestyle. The same goes for thousand-year-old traditional systems. Of course some ideas will be applicable and cross contextual between the groups but that is not a valid reason to spend all your time studying that system as you will learn things that will not fit in with your daily civilian objectives.
If I want to learn how to be a body builder I would not go to an Olympic track star just because he has specialized physical training and abilities that exceed my own. Similarly if I want to learn to protect myself in the street I would look for someone who has successfully defended themselves as well as someone skilled in controlling an altercations altogether.