One Strike in Karate - Revisited

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“Never trade blows with your adversary. Never strike anyone, but, when you must, you strike only one blow, but such a harsh one that your adversary can never, ever, strike back.” - Peter (unknown last name)

I came across this in my data-mining efforts toward knowledge and understanding through the analysis-hypothesis-n-synthesis method. ( ;-) ) hehe! I read it and said to myself, “Oh crap, that is so much better than the canned meaning most marital disciplines use!” In lieu of the often misinterpreted version this one comes right out and says, “Never trade blows … except … when you must and so on.” It becomes clearer the goals of such philosophies that meets and exceeds those social coping conditions society expects from its citizens in a self-fense situation and event. 

When I consider the distinction I would put on, “Such a harsh one that your adversary can never strike back,” with the addition that such a blow would remain will within the level of force imposed on citizens who find them selves facing conflict especially with higher levels of violence. After all, as non-fense education folks sitting on the jury will see and perceive distinctions way out of what you expect due to their ignorance and emotional immaturity, ignorance and emotional immaturity driven by media drive fictions based on falsities. If the adversary cannot strike back then you have stopped the attack and without some form of meaning that takes it beyond appropriate levels of force you can rightly assume that when the attack stops, you stop and the adversary has not ability to continue the attack, a continuance providing you the authority to take the force levels a bit higher to ‘stop the attack’. 

Add in that removing the one strike (blow, etc.), one kill leaves the often perceived egregious levels of forces term, “Kill,” out of the equation and out of the possible minds and hearts of interpretive dissonance jury members and other legal authorities would abuse and misuse to get your conviction. It tempers and softens the implied intent in the actual verbiage and that is a help in self-fense, Self-defense strategies and tactics. It addes in that even novices will find it difficult to garner and understand intent in meaning over the one that simply says, one blow-one kill. It may have been appropriate in ancient times but in modern, not so much. 

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“In order for any life to matter, we all have to matter.” - Marcus Luttrell, Navy Seal (ret)

Note: If I were being prosecuted and this was presented as evidence and bolstered by the fact that I have trained in karate for over forty years, would you as unknowledgeable and influenced by modern media events like MMA and Cage Fighting see this as a aggressive attitude where I might be taking the level of force too high being unacceptable to those in judgement of my actions claiming self-defense, defense?

Ritsu Rei!!!!!