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Meditations On Violence: A Comparison Of Martial Arts Training And Real World Violence (2009)

by Rory Miller(Favorite Author)

4.44 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1594391181 (ISBN13: 9781594391187)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

YMAA Publication Center

review 1: This is an interesting book that covers a subject that most traditional martial-arts instructors won't cover in the dojo..... the impact of real world violence.I have already encountered some of the issues they discuss; and the ones I haven't personally encountered, I have no desire to.The information serves as a nice little reminder to those martial-arts practitioners who place a little too much importance in the color of their belt; you are not ten foot tall and bullet proof.
review 2: Violence is one of those things that people believe they comprehend very well. Superficially everyone understands that it hurts to get hit. But the actual mechanics of violence? The skillsets needed to survive it or prevent it from happening in the first place? Not really somet... morehing most people think about, or would even know where to go looking.Meditations of Violence is probably the best place I have seen to look so far. This book provides perspectives that one is unlikely to hear from most people who claim some knowledge of it. Social workers, social scientists, and martial artists who talk about violence tend to have a very limited basis for their beliefs on violence. Rory Miller's work is (while not an all encompassing corrective) an extremely valuable 1st step in cutting the wheat from the chaff in understanding the violence that an average person may most likely see. He has done an invaluable service in writing this book. less

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