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Old 08-02-2014, 08:17 AM   #20
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Re: Self-defense, Wisdom, and the Way of Aikido

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Katherine Derbyshire wrote: View Post
Situations where people really are training for combat tend to have fairly high injury rates. As do elite athletes, regardless of their sport. So, as with everything else, there are tradeoffs.

Katherine
I'm not so sure about the first part. If a commander of a deploying unit has higher than 3% attrition rate during pre-dpeloyment training, it'd be considered unusual (with the exception of a jumping unit).

In the military people are training to polish up job skills, prepare for a specific environment, and learn to work together as a team. Any injury sustained would be do to the speed of training, chaos of getting a large group of people qualified in multiple tasks in a short period of time, etc. Competitive athletes are different. They are working to best another person. The good ones are willing to push themselves beyond safe limits to achieve this goal. Once that goal or competition is over, they migrate to recovery phase. Military people have to achieve certain qualifying goals prior to war. The idea is to be able to sustain physical competency throughout a 7-12 month deployment. Military people get in trouble for getting injured during preparatory training, lol.

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