“You can’t get the right answer from the wrong question”. I heard that statement from Rory Miller. In terms of a self-defense discussion, the wrong question usually beings as “I want to learn some moves”, or “please show us some moves”. This question inevitably leads to the Self-Defense Instructor demonstrating a technique to be … [Read more…]
“Don’t be a victim” is classic self-defense advice. It is usually directed towards women. It tells women to walk with confidence when out and about, to be aware of their surroundings, etc. What is piece of advice fails to address is that the most likely Casualties of Violence fall into two vastly different groups. The … [Read more…]
The above video demonstrates how self-serving messages promoted by the self-defense training industry, the personal safety product industry, the anti-rape advocacy industry, and the news media industry create a sense of fear and helplessness in many women. Women are constantly being portrayed as only the defenseless victims of ever present Bad Guys. All of … [Read more…]
The above video is an great example of what real people don’t look like when fighting. It provides a stylized view of trained fighters using scripted techniques of attack, counter-attacker, and counter-counter-attack. The next video demonstrates what real people actually look like when they fight. It is important to understand the difference … [Read more…]
Violence is less likely to be random and senseless and more likely to be used as a tool for to achieving a goal. Many times this goal is enforcing limits on (stopping) unwanted behavior. Enforcement can also be seen as punishment for breaking the Rules of Behavior. Here are some examples: Unwanted Behavior: Depantsing Enforcement: … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo Many social violence dominated Monkey Dances can be very intense. Each combatant is working very hard to assert his or her dominance. Despite landing and receiving wide variety of multiple blows/strikes, the combatants emerge relatively undamaged from the encounter. Some reasons for this happening are: 1. It is hard … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo One of the important concepts of social violence is that it can be categorized also by intensity and magnitude of violence. These videos are examples of low level Monkey Dance based social violence. In these videos, the participants use violence as a method of communication. The unsaid … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo This video graphically illustrates the nature of asocial violence. The victim is dehumanized by the predator. The attack is asymmetric (man vs. woman). The predator ambushes the tenant from behind and uses brutal means to incapacitate his victim. The predator is not a lowly motivated attacker that is easily disrupted … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo Here we see Asocial Resource Violence. The perpetrator is actively looking for a victim. He wants the resource (purse). He doesn’t care about the victim (victim de-humanized). He doesn’t attack the first person he sees with a purse. He attacks the first person he sees with a purse that he THINKS … [Read more…]
COMMENT by Erik Kondo The above videos illustrate violence used as a tool to obtain a resource in these cases purse/wallet/cash. The victim is “dehumanized” by the attacker. The attacker uses surprise and overwhelming force to take what he wants. In terms of Marc’s Five Stages of Violent Crime, the POSITIONING and … [Read more…]