tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post7841232451120948909..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: Comfort LevelRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-71604285758777471462007-11-27T02:02:00.000-08:002007-11-27T02:02:00.000-08:00Several years ago I taught simple massage techniqu...Several years ago I taught simple massage techniques to PT students. When it came to the neck, I had the most difficult time getting these students to pick up the head and move it around. They were all positive that they were going to break someone's neck, or cause permanent arterial or nerve damage. My supervisor decided that these techniques were too advanced, and we stuck with gentle effleurage in prone, a largely useless, "feel good" technique.Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13241218709688900676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-52667437144848144462007-11-26T20:07:00.000-08:002007-11-26T20:07:00.000-08:00I think it's absolutely natural to be afraid of th...I think it's absolutely natural to be afraid of things you know nothing about, especially if they have the potential to cause harm. Sounds like you've had so much experience with these techniques that it doesn't even faze you anymore, and you know strangles intimately, but that four inches between the head and shoulders is still pretty unexplored territory for most people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-43754443956473787862007-11-26T19:32:00.000-08:002007-11-26T19:32:00.000-08:00If I might, a possibility: You know that chokes ar...If I might, a possibility: You know that chokes are safe, applied as they are supposed to be applied. But to somebody who remembers reading about that karate-expert security guard who was choked out in a 7-Eleven years ago in Portland and who died, it might be that the consequences of such an action and the worry about it ring louder than your assurances of what you know is true.<BR/><BR/>What if I accidentally kill this guy? How's that gonna look in my jacket?<BR/><BR/>And everybody who has gone to a spy or kung fu or war movie has, at one time, seen the Hero skulk up behind somebody, throw an arm around his neck, and blap! the guy is dead.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, it's just a movie, but it's like a lot of those bullshit images, the dances with knives, the shotgun round that blows a guy through a plate glass window. Lot of folks believe this stuff. <BR/><BR/>You are wading against a stream of this bad input. A student is apt to think, "Well, you say you know what your are doing, but ..." he's got all that garbage floating around in his head. Maybe you should address all that first, get it out and show them it ain't so ...Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-19391533440506857352007-11-26T19:26:00.000-08:002007-11-26T19:26:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Steve Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12079658447270792228noreply@blogger.com