Making of a Jedi Warrior

two more interpretations of the woman warrior

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moe2O-lwba0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQLH-FUc1rA

what i wanted to get across is that its not just a boys club by any means

being a warrior is a matter of taking responsibility for ones spirit and mind and body

devotion to the ideas of personal dignity, personal excellence, personal vision, and personal courage

this applies to us all

what is a warrior?

6 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_nra0U1rm4

5 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1UN712p1O4

5 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUapEmA62_k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-LXdJMV2U

the description of this video reads

The Survival Triad is what you must have on your side in order to win a lethal confrontation.

It is composed of three parts:

1.The Combat Mindset. Best described as the mental willingness to inflict incapacitating damage to your opponent through overwhelming violence with no regard for your opponent's well being.

2.Skill. Best described as having the ability to use tools of defense (empty hands, edged or improvised weapons, guns) to inflict immediate and incapacitating damage to your opponent in a lethal encounter.

3.Action. Best described as moving decisively and immediately to incapacitate your opponent and not stopping until he is vanquished.

Now watch this video of an armed robbery and I will then discuss how The Survival Triad applies to this lethal encounter.

So what went right and what went wrong in this lethal encounter?

What went right is four, unarmed private citizens had the willingness to act immediately against an armed and threatening criminal.

Notice that action always beats reaction. These four citizens do an excellent job in initially turning the tables on the criminal. The first citizen is the star, who makes a move to deflect and disarm the gun and it appears initially that they have the upper hand on the armed robber.

What went wrong is these four citizen only possessed TWO of the THREE aspects of the Survival Triad.

Although they demonstrated the Combat Mindset with their willingness to fight and they demonstrated Action by taking the fight to their opponent, they lacked the skill to inflict immediate and incapacitation damage to finish the fight.

As a result, the four of them cannot incapacitate an average sized, street punk.? The first private citizen who moves to deflect and disarm the gun is later critically wounded and the fourth citizen who is hitting the armed criminal with the effectiveness of a junior high school girl ends up paying for his lack of skill with his life.

This is so unfortunate, because these four citizens did what was right. They just lacked the skill to use the tools that they had.

Even unarmed, once the gun was deflected and grabbed, had any of the four citizens used a thumb to gouge out an eye of the gunman, or smashed the lateral aspect of the gunman's knee with a forceful kick, or crushed his windpipe with a directed punch, or any number of empty hand defensive moves that are easily learned in a basic course, the outcome of this lethal encounter would have been completely different.

Again, they simply lacked skill.

Had any of the four citizens been armed with a folding knife and the ability to simply deploy it, I'm sure you can see how much easier it would have been to deliver immediate and incapacitating damage to the gunman.

And had any of the citizens had a concealed weapon, with Front Sight's training- which gives you the skill to present your weapon from a concealed holster and deliver two, sighted shots to the center of mass within 1.5 seconds from 5 yards away--there would have been a dead gunman instead of dead and critically injured citizens.

it is not necessary to join the military to live the life of a warrior
the military provides the original context for developing the warrior mentality

however, within and without the military, warriors are the ones who take it upon themselves (responsibility) for developing their own warrior spirit

we may be provided with context, opportunity, challenges, training, guidance, hardship, danger and even purpose by external phenomena, such as the military or the dojo

ultimately, no warrior was ever made by anyone or anything other than themselves

5 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8keLoXBpw

5 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2jRODCXRqE


8 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FumCOrWT5vc


10 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3tMlC84oA4

a common translation of JUSTU is technique
a common translation of DO is way

ju is basically translated as gentle
and aiki is translated as harmony

so ju jutsu would be the techniques of gentleness
and ju do would be the Way of gentleness

aiki jutsu are the techniues of harmony
and aiki do the Way of harmony

the important distinction here is not about which style to train in

one may walk a JUTSU path with WAY mentality

or study a DO system with a TECHNIQUE perspective

the importance is in understanding the distinction between the ideas and the function that each serves in the development of the warrior archetype

to be good with a rifle or with a scalpel is a soldiers skill or a surgeons skill

these are the JUTSU of a soldier or a surgeon and represent types of personal excellence

to be fully commited to the development of ones skills
and to being of the greatest service to ones field
and through ones field, society or the rest of the world

these represent the Do or the Way

and are matters of personal character

character in and of itself represents a type of skill
and will invariable lead to the development of further skills

skill by itself only perpetuates itself

so the foundations of a solid warrior are first and foremost issues of character

each individual has a unique blend of natural talent/potential

and developed skill/competence in any given area

the bridge between the two is character

character is a result of commitment to excellence and respect for essential human dignity

in the long run, the most effective people - in or out of the military - are the ones with the greatest commitment and the finest character

it is an honor to follow a person of exceptional character, whatever the occupational field

and it is shameful to follow a person of low character under any circumstances

so the Way of the warrior is to cultivate personal character and dignity

and the Jutsu of the warrior is to cultivate personal excellence and competence

it is the love of dignity which translates these into the actual WARRIOR ethos

because neither skill nor character per se result in courage

but when character is infused with dignity it will not back down or give in to that which assaults dignity

this is the type of courage that changes the world

Dr King is an example of a totally non violent interpretation of the warrior archetype

what made him remarkable is that he had that blend of character and competence and love of dignity

he was not at war with anyone or anything- to think he was at war with racism or "the system" is to misunderstand

his was a warriors mission of empowerment

the kind of empowerment that only comes from the love of dignity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-LXdJMV2U


expect the pistol to fire

none of these are more than about five minutes


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIiTUMarSg0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmQk3DnTcSs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jnqD8wvyE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyRI-quFaVA

6 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtrnBrxPGE


3 mins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9G-EaJ4-dg

"its better to train 10 techniques 1000 times than 1000 techniques 10 times"
google it if you care lol

general info - pistol disarm

6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQAnB3DJpu8

2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVlvtyusCeY

snub revolver
9 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxdWwLdCAA


one hand grip 2 min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOnr6Jqqg-Y


pistol in two hand grip


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSLff_OMo9g

2 mintes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqPjPqaeGbo


on the pistol firing when you grab it

2 minutes i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVtXPIjM3jQ

explanation of previous video - also he shows several different pistols and comments on disarming a revolver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KycQN37UA_c


how'bout some rifle disarms

2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGZ8-9yZOm4

2 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn6j_D0oRGI

15 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zm-xCBk0wc


10 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHebp0IBE8

40 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxsqJeMmWoM

krav dead side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCJRR5LQSjY

krav live side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vFpYE9FUdo

i like this one so much i wanted to post it twice lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZdefN6D5E

OB1Shinobi wrote: "its better to train 10 techniques 1000 times than 1000 techniques 10 times"
google it if you care lol

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Bruce Lee

I fear the man who has practiced one technique a thousand times, I do not fear the man who has googled a thousand techniques once :woohoo: :lol: :laugh: