Martial Arts Kill instructor heading for UK
Yesterday the BBC reported that here in the UK we are expecting a visit from a Mr Tim Larkin from the USA. Tim is an American Martial Arts instructor who hes reputedly trained members of the US Navy Seals and the FBI.
This man trains people in techniques designed to kill - with the suposition that his students will only use them when put in fear of their own lives during an attack. He claims to be able to teach these dangerous techniques to the young and the elderly.
The idea that there are techniques within Martial Arts systems that when applied correctly can kill isn't anything new of course. Taekwondo includes techniques of this kind. I'm aware that the higher Dan grades at my club know a great many advanced techniques which I would rater I did not end up on the receiving end of.
Importantly, my instructors, however potentially dangerous they may be do not alarm me by being so. Quite the reverse as I know they have only been trained to their high level because they have the self control necessary to be able to chose a suitable (non-deadly) means of defense. My chief instructor is highly diligent in ensuring his students only include people with the right mental attiitude to train. There has been more than one instance I'm aware of in which people were refused training at the club as they were felt likely to abuse what they learned in the Dojang out on the street.
Teaching people with no previous experience dangerous and potentially deadly techniques is like putting a gun in the hand of a child. I'm surprised Tim is being allowed to publicly advertise the purpose of his training.
This man trains people in techniques designed to kill - with the suposition that his students will only use them when put in fear of their own lives during an attack. He claims to be able to teach these dangerous techniques to the young and the elderly.
The idea that there are techniques within Martial Arts systems that when applied correctly can kill isn't anything new of course. Taekwondo includes techniques of this kind. I'm aware that the higher Dan grades at my club know a great many advanced techniques which I would rater I did not end up on the receiving end of.
Importantly, my instructors, however potentially dangerous they may be do not alarm me by being so. Quite the reverse as I know they have only been trained to their high level because they have the self control necessary to be able to chose a suitable (non-deadly) means of defense. My chief instructor is highly diligent in ensuring his students only include people with the right mental attiitude to train. There has been more than one instance I'm aware of in which people were refused training at the club as they were felt likely to abuse what they learned in the Dojang out on the street.
Teaching people with no previous experience dangerous and potentially deadly techniques is like putting a gun in the hand of a child. I'm surprised Tim is being allowed to publicly advertise the purpose of his training.
Labels: self defense
posted by Tomcat's Taekwondo at
18:28
2 Comments:
hmmm who sounds like the biggest con man. The one that teaches you how to defend your life when that's what's on the line NOW or the one that makes you think that there is nothingni can to prtect myself against the guy who just shot my friends and my dogs because I have to wait until I've got my dan rank and my stance is perfect?
and just for your knowledge the first thing they teach in TFT and they show you it in the most graphic way possible is why you DONT want to go looking for violence
I think that's pretty much the second point of my post. It's unrealistic to expect to be able to learn in two days what it has taken a lot of highly talented athletes years to achieve. The primary point being what a reckless attitude it is to attempt to teach lethal techniques to students who in all likelyhood do not have the experience to know when they should be used. Any decent Martial Art will teach simple, effective and non-lethal self defense techniques right from the start of training.
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