 martial arts
remember as well that better than 50% of martial arts
in IN THE MIND!!
OK ... so they lose some of their "innocence" by being
taught that sometimes it is necessary to hurt someone.
a pencil or pen in the eye. a thumb in the throat.
a deep scratch across the face (which also loads the
nails with DNA!) like has been mentioned, maybe not
stop, but definitely impede and discourage.
i used to practice a very little known system called
"whispering wind in the pines" (which sounds less
intimidating that "shoto kan" or "hapkido" or tae kwan do",
right?). it was hard to actually "practice" because it was
basically every "dirty" fighting technique you can think of.
our basic belief was that if it took longer than five seconds,
you didn't do it right.
that being said, it was still hours of mental drills until we
truly believed that the only dirty thing in fighting is your
own blood on the ground.
hope this doesn't sound too gruesome, but when someone is
intent on causing you bodily harm, there is no reason to be nice
with them.  |