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“A simple, clean goal for martial defense: Victory must be instantaneous; Victory must be effortless; We must be able to equally may or may not harm an adversary.” - The Book of Martial Power
Victory Must Be Instantaneous: Preference for faster victory; preference for immediate victory. We shall substitute the word victory for ending violence faster and ending violence immediately. A prolonged fight or defense may be perceived as aggression and make the proponents guilty of fighting, being outside the square of self-defense. Another aspect to consider is what mind-set and mind-state the term immediate victory imposes on the goals of self-defense.
“If we seek an instantaneous end to the violence than any technique that cannot deliver that end only interferes with our goal. Any technique not forwarding the ultimate aim is interfering with it. Judge techniques and tactics toward our ultimate goal. Recognize, as an example, the value of simultaneous defense and counters.” - The Book of Martial Power
In truth, it is better to think in terms or principles driving the efficient and effective use of defense methodologies, i.e., “impacts, drives (pushes), pulls, twists, takedowns/throws and compression, etc.”
“Victory Should Be Effortless: More easily applied technique become preferred over less-easily-applied technique. The nature of the technique as applied after it has been learned.” - The Book of Martial Power
This comes from a technique based training regimen but in truth the program should be based on student training of principles based defense methodologies that are practiced by the application of techniques in general over a specific technique based self-defense model.
“On a physical level, we must work from the premise that attackers will be bigger, stronger or bigger or stronger than ourselves. Keep in mind training should be about physically superior attackers.”
In truth I changed this toward training to apply principles regardless of actual techniques because unless the attacker is at that same level of understanding and application of principles the fact the person may be bigger and stronger becomes moot. It is my feeling that focus should not be on whether an attacker is bigger or stronger as that creates a mind-set/state where the gaol is to overcome bigger and stronger. Principles against principles regardless of size and strength. It is similar to relying on size and strength to reach a goal in a fight and self-defense because when a principle based person applies defense methodologies you will end up defeated. Distinctions in such cases become important to setting the right mind-set/states.
“Effortlessness” is not about how you expend your energy but in how you apply principles. Principles are about the efficient use of energy within our bodies so that we can apply appropriate levels of force and power in self-defense. Here again we don’t want our focus to be on the physical strength for strength does not create force and power. Strength is what provides a solid structure that can be maintained in the fight, it is strength that allows us to achieve and maintain our bodies alignment and balance and so on. It is what allows us to exert only that which maintains that structure, etc., so that we become an efficient machine whose product is force and power, not strength or what is called muscling it. Muscling it, relying heavily on strength, burns up energy, energy that must be used correctly toward power and force. Muscling it tends to consume energy while principles are about efficient use of energy so that the majority can be used to generate power and force.
Effortlessness coming from properly applied principles makes for less reliance on muscle strength and gives us the feeling that the body is doing nothing strenuous. When we feel not strain, we feel positively relaxed, we are actually performing with great force and power effortlessly.
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