Greg Newton
01-09-2012, 07:13 PM
Let's be real. To be able to successfully defend yourself from a predator, you have to have a certain amount of physical toughness.
Now the physical toughness I'm talking about doesn't come from sitting around the breakroom at lunch time, sitting with the good ole boys, yeah yeahing about how tough you are, and telling tall tales of backing this person or that person down in days of yore. Nor does it mean doing the same thing in the backwaters of the internet.
Think about it. Could you run five miles for help if you had to? How long could you last in a life or death struggle, where seconds seem like minutes, and minutes seem like hours? How much pain can you tolerate? Could you push your body and mind way beyond what is safe to do in a life threatening situation?
How could you measure this? Ask yourself these questions. Can you pull yourself up ten times? Could you do 100 consecutive Tiger Stretch Pushups? Could you do 50 strict military pushups? Could you do 100 consecutive situps of any kind? Could you do 100 Tiger Bend Squats?
Anyone who could do those things should have the phsyical tools to defend themselves if necessary. I can do more than that. Some of you are physically capable of doing much more than that. John is capable of doing a heck of a lot more than that.
But there again, what if you are older? What if you have been plagued by illness or disease? How do you develop tenacity and physical toughness? Let's look at John McSweeney's Tiger Moves. McSweeney was a tough son of a gun, moved like a panther and looked younger than his years. Yet, he had abandoned the pushups, situps and other exercises he had used from the Atlas course in favor of his tension exercises, which he practiced every day. He also taught the use of the knife, the club, the yawara and the handgun in his self-defense system.
There are no hard and fast answers here, but I want your to start asking yourself some serious what ifs. We are heading for a different time in the U.S. While the overall crime rate has decreased due to a a significant population drop of young men 15-35, the number of police officers shot and killed in the line of duty has increased astronomically. People aren't wanting to go to jail willingly.
My first year of teaching, and last year of being a police officer, a man got into a shoot out in front of a high school with deputy sheriffs. The judge let him out on bond!!!! A week later he got into a high speed chase and shoot out with a rookie police officer I had worked with.
He was apprehended without anyone getting hurt or killed, but think about it. Is that too far removed from a Mad Max type of world where criminals have the rights and ordinary citizens are mere sheep for the slaughter?
Who are you going to be? A sheep or a shepherd?
Greg Newton
Now the physical toughness I'm talking about doesn't come from sitting around the breakroom at lunch time, sitting with the good ole boys, yeah yeahing about how tough you are, and telling tall tales of backing this person or that person down in days of yore. Nor does it mean doing the same thing in the backwaters of the internet.
Think about it. Could you run five miles for help if you had to? How long could you last in a life or death struggle, where seconds seem like minutes, and minutes seem like hours? How much pain can you tolerate? Could you push your body and mind way beyond what is safe to do in a life threatening situation?
How could you measure this? Ask yourself these questions. Can you pull yourself up ten times? Could you do 100 consecutive Tiger Stretch Pushups? Could you do 50 strict military pushups? Could you do 100 consecutive situps of any kind? Could you do 100 Tiger Bend Squats?
Anyone who could do those things should have the phsyical tools to defend themselves if necessary. I can do more than that. Some of you are physically capable of doing much more than that. John is capable of doing a heck of a lot more than that.
But there again, what if you are older? What if you have been plagued by illness or disease? How do you develop tenacity and physical toughness? Let's look at John McSweeney's Tiger Moves. McSweeney was a tough son of a gun, moved like a panther and looked younger than his years. Yet, he had abandoned the pushups, situps and other exercises he had used from the Atlas course in favor of his tension exercises, which he practiced every day. He also taught the use of the knife, the club, the yawara and the handgun in his self-defense system.
There are no hard and fast answers here, but I want your to start asking yourself some serious what ifs. We are heading for a different time in the U.S. While the overall crime rate has decreased due to a a significant population drop of young men 15-35, the number of police officers shot and killed in the line of duty has increased astronomically. People aren't wanting to go to jail willingly.
My first year of teaching, and last year of being a police officer, a man got into a shoot out in front of a high school with deputy sheriffs. The judge let him out on bond!!!! A week later he got into a high speed chase and shoot out with a rookie police officer I had worked with.
He was apprehended without anyone getting hurt or killed, but think about it. Is that too far removed from a Mad Max type of world where criminals have the rights and ordinary citizens are mere sheep for the slaughter?
Who are you going to be? A sheep or a shepherd?
Greg Newton