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Katherine Derbyshire wrote:
Right. No argument there. I'm just questioning the value of the kind of training that prepares you to succeed in fights, specifically, relative to other kinds of "tough training." There's a wide spectrum between "full contact sparring" and "yoga with tumbling." As any competitive athlete knows, you can develop quite a lot of mental toughness without ever getting punched in the face.
Katherine
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True enough.
If I was in sales, I'd avoid face punches like the plague (or play BJJ)
In karate & hapkido I've observed that there is a trade off: people avoiding face punches really never learn to keep their hands up, duck & weave, and slip off the line as well as the people open to all kinds of waza and pains.
I'm looking forward to finding an aikido dojo, (not like the last one, years ago, that had too many judgementtal closed minded idealists.)
Thanks again, Katherine.