Myths and Blind Spots in the Fighting Arts' World -Part #1

Myths and Blind Spots in the Fighting Arts' World #1

Learning to defend yourself through training in martial arts, combatives or combat sports, is a wise thing to do, but being wise while doing it, is not all that easy. While it does depend on you, it firstly depends on your instructors, and even on their instructors... This being the case, human factors like ignorance, arrogance, "indenialism" (I call it), deception, hastiness, idolatry, fanaticism and more, hinder the truth to various degrees from reaching the practitioners, thus compromising their necessary survival fighting skills.

For this reason, this book strives to bring clarity and reality where those are absent, to bring balance where there is exaggeration or falsehood; when learning to mentally and physically resist an attacker or attackers, there can't be any room for wrong use of the body's weapons, for naivety, silliness, fantasy or a playful mentality. This in turn means, that in order to protect yourself and loved ones, the theories and training methods you use for that purpose, should be able, must be able, TO BE PROVEN 100% accurate, if ever physically attacked. A large order indeed, a huge responsibility and a moral burden for sincere hard working, dedicated instructors.

So, there is knowledge to be gained from this book and wisdom to be discerned. It's therefore a book for free thinkers, for truth lovers, I'd even add, for the brave, but it's definitely not for mere "reactors" that see things through the lens of emotionalism, convenience, self-benefit, immaturity, or inexperience.

While it's not a Christian book, I am still a dedicated Christian, so it's still a... Christian's book. I am glad and thankful to God, to be both a Christian and a Christian martial artist; Psalm 144:1-2 is true in my life, just like so many other passages from the Bible. And why is this relevant, you may in all fairness ask. Because my faith and beliefs are apparent here and there in this book and especially in a particular chapter where I elaborate on Christianity's, actually God's perspective on self-defense and violence and this, firstly for my Christian family members and then of course for all other practitioners; they too may gain a lot from that perspective. It's unfortunately true, that it's not a topic that many would expect a Christian to write about, but why not? The answer in essence, in that chapter.

Another dimension of this book, is my Christian sense of humor; don't say I didn't warn you! Therefore the full blend you should expect to find in this book is fourfold: fighting arts, wisdom, Christianity and humor. All of those, to hopefully bring necessary change, where it is needed and of course... is still wanted or/and allowed...

¿DISCLAIMER: If you are somehow offended by the Gospel of Jesus Christ that calls people to repent and be saved from eternal hell or Christian theology in general, my friendly advice is, do not waste your money and time buying this book. There are good martial art books out there waiting for you, written by atheists, so you can buy theirs and reject this one if you feel you cannot tolerate such beliefs. Thank you for understanding, I appreciate it and no hard feelings.