Re: Excellent ground game
Posted: Wed May 02, 2018 6:26 pm
Just as a side note... A knife stab may not be a very good example of whether pain-tolerance-based techniques are useful. I can feel pain from someone pinching my forearm skin with their fingers, or I can feel pain from someone trying to bend my finger backwards. The qualitative difference between those is not in the amount of pain, but in the amount of potential damage each of them presents. The first one may be more painful than the second one, but the second one would cause a lot more damage (is much more dangerous). So I could tolerate the first one with relative ease (you can use your mind to "turn down" some of those pain signals), but I wouldn't try to tolerate the second one very long. The knife stab example is that second kind of pain... There real threat is the potential damage that a technique can cause; pain's importance is always secondary to that.