I may have misunderstood his last post, but it seems to criticise training even though he is a trained individual himself (I'm guessing).
Just to re-iterate this threat is about hand to hand combat, life and death stuff...with that in mind:
I have been seriously training in military type H2H systems for over 15 years. For about the 1st 10...I thought I was training so I could kill/injure people in combat. It took me 10 years to realize this was false. I could always kill/injure people in combat, I didn't need to train for that (rock to the back of the head).
I was training (and still do) in order to improve my efficiency at killing/injuring in combat, thus improving the odds in my favor. So, I post the way I do to remove the notion that you have to train a certain way, or have a lot of training (or any) to kill/survive even the most horrible violence...you don't. Training just improves you efficiency, thus your odds.
I like to collect news stories of everyday (untrained) people fighting and overcoming seemingly impossible odds. Last year a teenage girl in India had her home invaded by multiple thugs armed w/ AK-47s. Her dad resisted, got beat down. She took them on and prevailed (with a machete and a bad attitude!)
This is stark contrast to the "What do you do if they have a gun in your face" threads posted and the typical "There's nothing you can do if they have the drop on you" responses.
Any training for violence needs to be looked at from the desired result (in them) backwards. Who cares what position your hand is in...did his throat seal off cutting off his air supply when you struck it? If yes, good. If no, I don't care if you are a 30 year master instructor of "who-cares-Fu" with 3 combat tours in every war. If you struck his throat and didn't injure him (thus he is still 100% able to fight) it was a wasted motion.
This is how everyday people overcome long odds, they fight back hard and don't stop. If they had good training, they would have better odds and/or suffer less injuries themselves in the process. All the victims would hopefully get the courage (knowledge that they can) to fight and many more of them would survive.
Training is great, but not a pre-requisite to doing violence. If the goal is to injure someone, get it done fast, hard and first and don't let up.
If you train, use a keen eye on every "technique" and ask yourself: "Where is the injury?" It should be easy to tell what injuries a sequence of strikes should produce. If strikes are to non-specific areas of the body (the "face", the "abdomen") you'll get non-specific results. I'm not talking about "pressure points" or any of that crap. I'm talking about throwing all 186 lbs of me through him, and having that mass connect with his throat (on his Adam's Apple) with my forearm. When I'm done I'm standing where he was and he is displaced (like a pendulum), 100% of my mass went into his throat focused on a few square inches of my ulna...(ask any M.D. about the result)
What if I miss? What if he injures me? What if...
As long as I can think and move, I will be using my mass and any tools available to injure him until he is no longer a threat. If he does that to me first and doesn't let up...then I don't have to worry about it. No one, no matter how trained, is immune to violence. Physics and anatomy work for, and against us all the same.
