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Originally Posted by Mike Brewer
Certainly you aren't suggesting that they go get in gun fights to learn about guns, knife fights to learn about knives, and mass brawls to learn about mass attack, are you?
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Somehow I'm certain Ron Jeremy knows more about sex than every virgin on the planet no matter how many of Ron's films they've studied while fantasizing about what they'd do in a similar situation. So yes I'm saying the actual event is far superior than all the ways of attempting to simulate them. Does it help to have ridden a go cart around the track before driving a car for the first time? Sure, but it is still inferior to actually driving on the roads with other vehicles and drivers who have different capabilities and destinations. Even after training no one knows how they will react in an actual crisis until they have experienced it, there is a reason veterans don't trust new recruits until they've proven themselves under fire. All the live fire drills in the world don't prepare you for the realization that this time you get it right or die.
You can do PLF's off a tower all day but until you actually jump out of an aircraft you don't have any idea what it's really like. Training is great, even essential in some cases but it's never a substitute for the real thing. Think of practicing CPR, no matter how many times you've practiced on a dummy, put your wife on floor in distress and I assure you will wish you had actually done it for real before and would gladly get the hell out of the way if someone who had showed up, Training is great but NO art or sport can ever duplicate the emotion component that kicks in when death is the likely outcome if you fail. Self defense is the by product of all the work and experience you garner and you can't get that in a classroom or a ring or a dojo.