tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post2054623101639708493..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: Living and LearningRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-16722263739003196942009-02-04T18:15:00.000-08:002009-02-04T18:15:00.000-08:00You are a better man than me to bother responding ...You are a better man than me to bother responding to such arrogant idiocy peddled by 'soft handed' boys.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13488651885429977320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-63901361113614251902009-02-02T19:29:00.000-08:002009-02-02T19:29:00.000-08:00Not only infantry, but even action movie stars tra...Not only infantry, but even action movie stars train harder than the average martial artist! It is not unusual for them to train 4+ hours every day, for months, just to present a convincing character.<BR/><BR/>After all that, they understand the limits of their skill. So the movie stars are humbler than martial artists too. ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-10593380694098535292009-02-02T15:34:00.000-08:002009-02-02T15:34:00.000-08:00You know the old story about the researcher studyi...You know the old story about the researcher studying a terrible, disfiguring disease? He caught it. Looked in the mirror one morning, then said, "Hey, but you know, it doesn't look so bad on me ..."Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-91577274600576892602009-02-02T13:00:00.000-08:002009-02-02T13:00:00.000-08:00Just found your Blog, coming to the end of " Medit...Just found your Blog, coming to the end of " Meditations....", as recommended by Dr Kevin. Have a fine Wing Chun teacher here in the UK, who reinforces my appreciation and understanding of violence as a basic form of communication between our sense of self and our relationship to the world around us. Violence reminds me of physical Latin, the blunt basis of much language. But most of us are too complicated to understand it, only the most simplest minds inhabit the wise.<BR/><BR/>Kind regards I look forward to reading your Blog.<BR/><BR/>John the poet aka Scorpius PoeticusScorpius Poeticushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12846225733753322113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-36980807359390389772009-02-02T02:59:00.000-08:002009-02-02T02:59:00.000-08:00"Six consecutive 18 hour days of training trumps a..."Six consecutive 18 hour days of training trumps any 8 hour black belt test that I've ever heard of. "<BR/><BR/>Yes! When I did the Paladin Press podcast interview, they asked me about my instructor's test. I tried to specifically point out what you said here above. <BR/><BR/>MAists sometimes think they're light years above the rest in this regard. A couple of days of basic training would probably cure them of that way of thinking. <BR/><BR/>WimWim Demeerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07395966189135550876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-87270649336061066032009-02-01T16:26:00.000-08:002009-02-01T16:26:00.000-08:00Rory, I do not support this war-the one in Iraq, e...Rory, I do not support this war-the one in Iraq, especially...<BR/><BR/>But I do envy you your experience there. <BR/><BR/>On the issue of basic combat training-I went through it twice, first the roughest the Army offers, Infantry Combat training at Fort Benning, and Marine boot camp at MCRD San Diego. <BR/><BR/>This gives me an unusual, if not unique outlook. I also messed around in a very half-assed way with martial arts...<BR/><BR/>So, some differences...<BR/><BR/>1) Hard to be half-assed in military training. They own you, 24/7, in ways no martial artist will experience.<BR/><BR/>2) The focus is different. Both MA and military training resocialize you, to overcome training NOT to hurt people. The military training is to overcome social training against killing. In World War II, it was found that only about one in four soldiers would even fire a weapon in combat, due to the constraints against murder. Today military trainers have firing rates over 95 percent. Operant conditioning, works wonders. MA in general are not teaching people to reflexively take human life, and that is a difference. <BR/>3) The average product of BCT is a fit, reasonably disciplined individual who is willing and trained to fight. History shows that the American soldier and Marine are both highly effective on the battlefield, even though the American people are not by nature militaristic. <BR/>4) In general I agree with Rory on the effectiveness of military training in general in producing a graduate with the skill sets and attitudes necessary to survive and be effective.<BR/>5) There is a tendency to romanticize training of all kinds. The difference between military and MA training is great, and the main difference is perhaps simply in the goal-one is to enroll new recruits into an organization larger then them, to make a soft civilian hard enough to be willing to suffer and die and kill and skilled enough to be worthwhile as a member of the team...<BR/><BR/>The other is to provide personal growth and basic self defense. The outcome sought is different and the methods different as well.<BR/><BR/>6) Army and Marine Ethos are different, and that difference is reflected in their different methods of enrollment. A person is a soldier in the Army. You ARE a Marine. Subtle, yet the Marines get more mileage out of their ethos. <BR/><BR/>Keep safe, Rory. <BR/><BR/>-RobertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-24754884544635514882009-02-01T11:37:00.000-08:002009-02-01T11:37:00.000-08:00Wow - it is a bit cheerleadery - but poignant, and...Wow - it is a bit cheerleadery - but poignant, and beautiful in your poetic thug way. Love you - and those kids half your age are probably honored to have you stand with them.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241218709688900676noreply@blogger.com