Posted: 11/22/2010 12:33:25 PM EDT
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How much training do you think is neccessary for a person to stay up on there unarmed self defense?
Do you do anything to stay sharp? It can be quite time consuming and expensive to say the least. |
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Here's how I used to explain it to classes.
In high school, you took a typing class. Say you got up to 50 wpm, which is damned good. And you strapped a typewriter on your strong-side hip, and carried it concealed wherever you went. But you never did any more typing. Sure, you handled the typewriter to clean it or replace the ribbon, but you didn't see fit to touch a key under a timer. You'd show your friends and family, let them do some typing with it, and occasionally you'd type a letter, if it was nice outside. You bought all the typewriter magazines and joined all the typing websites, maybe even upgraded to a semiauto typewriter. But you didn't pracitce as you should have. And twenty years later, a guy pulls a gun on you. His threat: whip that Smith-Corona out, huckleberry, and type me 50 wpm. Right now. No mistakes. Anything slower, and I'll have to kill you. You were good once, long ago. How good can you be now, without practice? |
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Short answer none. You can have all the training you can get, and still make a mistake, and likewise you may have no training, and get lucky. That said the more training you have the less you have to depend on luck. Your ability to defend yourself is pretty important, do you really want to rely on luck?
What it comes down to is there is no magical amount of training at which point you can say "that's enough", and not train anymore, the more training you get the better your odds, and it's also a skill that you loose over time so you need some training, or practice just to keep the skills you already have. Not everyone has the time or money, but you should do what you can when you can even if it's just dry practicing your draw in a mirror, and dry firing. |
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Short answer none. You can have all the training you can get, and still make a mistake, and likewise you may have no training, and get lucky. That said the more training you have the less you have to depend on luck. Your ability to defend yourself is pretty important, do you really want to rely on luck? What it comes down to is there is no magical amount of training at which point you can say "that's enough", and not train anymore, the more training you get the better your odds, and it's also a skill that you loose over time so you need some training, or practice just to keep the skills you already have. Not everyone has the time or money, but you should do what you can when you can even if it's just dry practicing your draw in a mirror, and dry firing. yep and i think the more training you get the more you say "damn i really need to train more" |
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Here's what I found , although I wouldn't want to trust my life to it.
I wrestled for 6 years ,jr high through high school , I have been out of wrestling for 26 years, went to a high school practice to observe, got challenged by hot shot senior we basically ended up a draw, mainly cause I'm outa shape for a 6 minute match , I could position myself so he couldn't score any points , "stalling" as it's called 
Bottom line: muscle memory stays pretty good, but refer back to my first sentance 
ETA; I had him pretty worried for the first several min.  til I got too winded
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Here's what I found , although I wouldn't want to trust my life to it. I wrestled for 6 years ,jr high through high school , I have been out of wrestling for 26 years, went to a high school practice to observe, got challenged by hot shot senior we basically ended up a draw, mainly cause I'm outa shape for a 6 minute match , I could position myself so he couldn't score any points , "stalling" as it's called
Bottom line: muscle memory stays pretty good, but refer back to my first sentance
ETA; I had him pretty worried for the first several min. til I got too windedthis.... there's something to this....it's all about how fast you can let the animal inside you goooooo......we are at an advantage because we actually care enough to dig deep and protect what's ours. |