everything wrote:Suppose you are helping someone, let's say it's your senior citizen mother, enroll in some self-defense training. She isn't interested in being a "fighter", getting in a ring, or doing any sparring. Maybe she isn't fit, has arthritis, an old injury, etc. so that really doesn't make much sense. . . .
What is an "intermediate" level of skill you would encourage her to get to? Something between CPR and becoming an emergency room nurse or doctor. On this board we want everyone in every hypothetical thread topic to become a "doctor" but what about people who just aren't going to do that for various good reasons.
RobP3 wrote:I don't understand this thing you have about people "not wanting to be a fighter." Very few of us are "fighters" in the sense of we are not soldiers or sports fighters. Likewise, I'm not a cross channel swimmer, but I know how to swim. And in order to learn how to swim I had to get wet.
is "self-defense" not suitable for those people.
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