Meditations on Violence
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Read on Hacker NewsI very strongly recommend the book Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller. One thing he mentions is that his police department tried BJJ and found things like, in BJJ you want to pin your opponent on his back because it looks good for the MMA crowd, but in police work you want to pin your opponent on his front so you can then handcuff him. But the really interesting bit of the book is in the description of the mindsets of different fighters. Cheating has no meaning in the mind of the true predator. Martial arts, even BJJ, designed for the ring, can't be transferred to "real world" scenarios (the author has worked in SWAT and as a prison guard) not just because the techniques aren't suitable, but because the mindset is wrong.
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