both your instincts

“When both your instincts and your martial training are keyed for dominance, it can be very easy to forget that your primary goal is to escape or to stop the threat. There is a difference between training to win a dominance contest and training to survive. All sparring matches - weapons, duals, MMA, or point fighting, are dominance contests, not survival contests.” - Rory Miller, Facing Violence

Comment: Add in that most MA are actually training in person-to-person violence so when do you actually translate your actions into self-defense leaving behind that type of socially driven violence thereby entering into and remaining steadfast within the self-defense square? Does your training and practice address this transitional mind-set? If not, the monkey will remain where it finds the most comfort and that means dealing with all that resides outside that square …. ops!