by Jack Kerwick, American Thinker:
Things being what they are, Americans should assume responsibility for their own protection.
And this includes learning, within the limitations of the principles of physics, human physiology, their body types, and their own unique bodies, how to move with maximal efficiency for the purpose of prevailing over those who pose an imminent threat to them and/or their loved ones.
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Each person is unique: Genetics and history conspire to ensure that we can’t all do the same exact things with our bodies. Nevertheless, barring extraordinary circumstances (like being comatose or otherwise incapacitated), all human beings are equally bound by the laws of the universe.
Within these constraints, we can continually refine our movement so as to achieve ever greater control over our equilibrium, subtle muscle development, and perceptual awareness. Anyone, regardless of age, sex, body type, or the limitations and challenges specific to their bodies, can do this. It is in this mastery over one’s own body, this efficiency of movement, that true martial development consists.
Of course, it’s true that there’s a number of skills, sometimes referred to as “soft skills”—like situational awareness, avoidance, diffusion, de-escalation—that can preempt a violent conflict from igniting. These skills can and should be acquired by all remotely reasonable, and reasonably decent, human beings.
Most instances of violence, what are conventionally characterized as “fights,” are essentially ego battles that can and should be precluded from the outset. These are the interpersonal conflicts that you’re likely to see on various sites on the internet. The players change, but the adolescent ritual remains constant: Upon exchanging insults and assuring one another that they are the baddest of bad asses, (usually) two males square off in a conventional fighting stance, each leaving their front and rear legs a county or two apart and their hands held high with clenched fists.
Then, they dance around one another, as if they are in a ring (or on a dancefloor), throwing jabs and backing away.
At some point, they may close the distance with one another, in which case the windmilling begins, and the lack of body mastery, of balance and equilibrium control, becomes glaring. In other words, besides being an exercise in stupidity, to say nothing of criminality, these YouTube “fights,” such as they are, epitomize wasteful motion on the part of those who are caught on camera engaging in them.
But, as I said, these sorts of conflicts, being consensual, are avoidable.
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