Re: Self defence

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:56:30 +0100, Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>>I was certainly advocating the use aggressive self defence as a
>>principle. I gave examples of what can be done if sufficiently
>>trained. This was sweepingly condemned with hardly a suggestion of
>>alternatives.

>The impression given by your post was that you were suggesting this as
>an actual tactic, rather than a s one example of a general case.

>And that is why you were challenged on it.

>If you had been more clear at the start that the general was the
>important thing, and you were just giving an example (or even better
>have not given the example at all), then none of this misunderstanding
>would have arisen.

Well you gained a wrong impression. I could also have described what
sound you could have got from a guitar with a given set of chords, it
doesn't mean anyone could have then picked up a guitar and done it.

>Again, you are asking for specifics.

>Even if I had the training, I would not be prepared to suggest
>anything specific, because there are just too many variables to know
>from a simple little description like that what the bets course of
>action is.

>I would do whatever, at the time, I thought was likely to result in
>the least injury to myself.

And the wider the repertoire of responses you have learned and
trained, the more chance you have.

Clough


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