On training
There’s good training and bad training. When I’m critical of a prominent firearms instructor putting photographers down range, I’m not anti-training. I’m anti-putting photographers down range. When I point out that a MMA fighter breaking a soccer mom’s rib might be something unnecessarily dangerous, I’m not anti-training. I’m anti-unnecessary danger. Apparently, this makes me a pussy* and mediocre. As though there’s this binary relationship where you are to train dangerously or for competition; or you are anti-training. That’s a load.
I’m glad that A Girl and Her Gun is learning the various methods of self-defense and good for her for doing that. Seriously, that’s awesome. But be careful out there.
* I’m picking on Jennifer, who didn’t actually call me a pussy. But I will note: I’ve lost count of the number of car accidents I’ve been in. I haven’t lost count of mine. I’ve been in exactly zero. And I don’t live in a risk-free world. I drive fast. Also, I have jumped out of buildings and off of other structures 378 times. I don’t live in a bubble and no one should.
June 11th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
@Martini: I’m still wondering about that one too.
June 11th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I’m hurt already so I avoid walking-into that kinda thing – also I’m too old for shit like that, so I train for being an old semi-invalid with a bum elbow and bad foot who panics semi-leisurely and shoots attackers from the safety of a bar-stool. Like Han Solo.
I train to drop $40 magazines on the deck and try to not slip-n-slide on them, and especially not to bend-over and pick ’em up in the middle of shooting..
June 12th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
But as for “girls” and football, the word and features of the game depend on the country of origin… During my first week at College I was stopped dead in my tracks by the awesome sight of a 6-foot five-inch tall Uber-Amazon wearing a t-shirt (and wearing it well!) that said, “Rugby Players Eat Their Dead.”
I came from a Sports background, but had no doubt whatsoever that SHE could best me (and most other College twig-boys) in most games of speed and force.