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I’ve heard the response of “just stop watching the news” or “don’t pay attention”, but that’s basically impossible.

It is not only possible, it's simple.

Good luck with it. I read your PDF. Let me know if you want any advice.

I'm not sure having no coaches is a good idea. A martial arts coach is a perfect example of "justified hierarchy". And you do mark skill disparities as one of the major issues you're facing.

Guy who tweeted this doesn't fight.

How will they resist?

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Shotgun to be specific

Thailand was never colonised.

I'm trying to get !combat@lemmy.ml going for this reason.

If they compete in Thailand that's a really good sign.

Honestly you sound like you're doing everything right. If you have brown kyu grade in judo and can box and you join a good Muay Thai gym then you can handle yourself.

Hey, mod of !combat@lemmy.ml here.

Short answer: muay Thai is good.

Longer answer: when choosing a martial art, you're not choosing in an ideal world, you're choosing in your city. You need to find a place that has a good gym, with good sparring partners that works with your schedule. You'd be better off joining a good taekwondo gym than a bad Muay Thai gym.

So I'd say spend an hour searching what's available in your area, checking their timetable to make sure you can fit it in, and then get back to us. Then you need to go to the gym and make sure you like the vibes there.

There are some bad Muay Thai gyms in the world. It's easy to tell the difference: do the students compete? If they compete, then they're actually battle-tested, not doing something for fun/fitness. Competition is unforgiving.

To justify the short answer: if you're good at Muay Thai, you can deluver a lot of destructive force in short order, you can knock out boys. They do clinch-work so you get good on the inside. (I've heard some shitty gyms don't even do clinch-work, though I've never witnessed such.) Using the '8 limbs' is a great skill to have.

I like that Muay Thai guys train hardstyle; they're not there doing kata or going light all the time. They spend a lot of time sparring, which trains their reactions, their reads, and acclimatises you to getting hit. Civilians are afraid of getting in a fight because they'll get hit, but if you get hit all the time you stop being afraid.

You'll need some wrestling too because if all you know is striking, then what do you do the first time someone bear-hugs you? It's what happened in UFC1.

Did you get up to a good belt-level in judo?

Yes, Dahner is probably a good example of what I'm talking about: the conjunction of mistreatment and organic brain disorders. His parents denied scientists at Fresno permission to examine his brain before cremation, so we can't be sure exactly what was wrong with him, but we know he was an alcoholic and the son of a mentally ill mother.

Charles Whitman is another: beaten by his father, lost his brother to murder, plus a tumour on his amygdala.

The point the English professors are making is that the new generation of students see monsters entirely as victims of circumstances. It's an ideological belief.