Chris McKinley wrote:What a weapons-based mindset does is to modernize your awareness that, in real life-threatening encounters (as opposed to the power jockeying that can happen in clubs, for instance), a weapon will be involved more often than not. Like I wrote in my previous post, if you assume a weapon's presence and your gamble is correct, you may have just saved your own life. If you make that assumption and you are wrong, you haven't lost anything since the tactics will still work against an empty-handed assault.
However, your question makes the assumption that empty handed IMA are going to be concerned with taking the force of a punch or round kick "head on", so to speak. While that is sometimes unavoidably necessary, that's certainly not going to be the preferred intended tactic.
We still advocate not meeting force with force, even though we build up some very strong structure. Realistically, yes....it's still nice to have that structure when you are absolutely forced to take incoming force directly, but the real sweetness is in being able to use it to issue your own power offensively.
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