Yes, she clearly DID hit him first, and crossed the elevator to come after him, but , he couldn’t have held her off like he does linemen who weigh three times as much?
When hit, the instinctive response indeed can be to reflexively hit back, but that wasn’t the situation here either. It was a messed up mixup, but:
When I was six years old, my neighbor, and father of my first “girlfriend” had been all Japan champion in Judo in the mid 1930’s, before he emigrated to the U.S.. He began teaching us Judo, and the more “martial” forms as well. But the secret to martial arts is that they are DEFENSIVE, and the key is to let the other person “hurt themselves” so to speak.
American style football does NOT teach this passive restraint of the self, and instead glorifies both sides, even “defense” INITIATING the violence. After ’Nam, a “star” football player, much larger than me, initiated violence, and I let him “hurt himself”. I had to have five stitches over the eye where he hit me from behind with a “haymaker” after I turned my back on the idiot. He spent months in a coma.
It ain’t about being the “tough guy”, it’s about control of “situations”.
Yes, she clearly DID hit him first, and crossed the elevator to come after him, but , he couldn’t have held her off like he does linemen who weigh three times as much?
When hit, the instinctive response indeed can be to reflexively hit back, but that wasn’t the situation here either. It was a messed up mixup, but:
When I was six years old, my neighbor, and father of my first “girlfriend” had been all Japan champion in Judo in the mid 1930’s, before he emigrated to the U.S.. He began teaching us Judo, and the more “martial” forms as well. But the secret to martial arts is that they are DEFENSIVE, and the key is to let the other person “hurt themselves” so to speak.
American style football does NOT teach this passive restraint of the self, and instead glorifies both sides, even “defense” INITIATING the violence. After ’Nam, a “star” football player, much larger than me, initiated violence, and I let him “hurt himself”. I had to have five stitches over the eye where he hit me from behind with a “haymaker” after I turned my back on the idiot. He spent months in a coma.
It ain’t about being the “tough guy”, it’s about control of “situations”.