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Originally Posted by jvernacchio
You obviously have taken my comments and opinions as some form of personal attack on your art form and I apologize if you feel you need to defend the efficacy of your martial art it was not my intention in any way shape or form to do so.
I gave the original poster my honest opinion of traditional martial arts as opposed to mixed martial arts based on my own knowledge after 25 years of experience doing them both the traditional and MMA. He asked a question I gave an answer nothing more nothing less.
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Obviously. Understood. Thanks.
25 years? Turn around and let us see that face/how old you are.
JV, would you mind elaborating on how and why you originally got into the (traditional) martial arts and then how and why you made the change over to MMA oriented training, and explain your change of heart? You did, to me, come across as judgmental and with a bit of a bitter taste in your mouth. Sorry if I'm reading into your comments too much.
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Originally Posted by Jokerz
I understand what your saying, and I'm not anti conceal and carry or anything. It just sounded like you were just suggesting getting a gun and that would solve the issue. I was stating that officers who train heavily in weapon retention can be disarmed, and if you are carrying a gun, then you should probably take some retention classes (do they have those?) because if you don't use it fast enough theres a chance that it will be used against you.
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Man, people always assuming . . . No wonder why the world can't communicate and understand each other.
There are trainers who offer training in things such as advanced techniques, tactics and weapons retention. I'll probably be taking more of that this summer. I don't generally carry all the time; pretty low potential need/safe area around here. But when I leave my school alone in the dark in the evenings, during the occasional times when there's some sprees of meth addicts or deviant youth causing some crime or assaults, I'm prone to carry the insurance policy.
Realistically, the police officers/trainers told me that what they know of someone like me with the right mindset and with the general awareness, composure and ma training, that they would not worry about improper use and disarming, versus even newer or younger officers or even lazy, experienced/older ones.
There might be a bit of a problem with too many people getting concealed carry permits (of course, you don't need a permit to openly carry), but by and large, people who do so apparently take it very seriously and incidents of problems are virtually nonexistent; one only hears of one, even from the major cities here, maybe once a year.