physical and emotional intensity

“The attacks have to be attacks. You have to be able to project the physical and emotional intensity of grabbing a person by the throat and slamming them into the wall. Those are the physics they must learn to deal with. That is a taste of the emotional environment in which they will have to deal with those physics. You have a responsibility to be a good bad guy for your partner. … You must give your partners good attacks. I know that you're good people and it's hard for you. But if you attack them weak, or slow, or gently, you are literally endangering their lives. Do you want your partner to get hurt because you were so self-conscious you couldn't help her prepare? … The reps of acting ferocious combined with the idea that you are being ferocious for the benefit of someone else will likely also make it easier to slip the leash if you need to for real.” - Rory Miller, Convergence on Chiron Blog

Comment: Stop playing at this and begin to actually learn the reaiity of attacks, i.e., conflicts, violence and violent conflicts, etc. It is not television and John Wayne does not ride off into the sunset. John Claude does not get stomped and jump up to take the adversary down. We don’t fly across the room when shot. It is not play, it is not points, it is not about the way, it is not about how we look and it is not the perfection of a move, it is about chaos, damage, grave bodily harm and even death. Reality sucks but you gotta deal with it or it will deal with you.