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Recognizing, avoiding danger By Don Roley - Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:39:17 GMT

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I was going through some old magazines and making notes. In the Febuary 2000 issue of Hiden magazine I found the following quote by Hatsumi in an interview.

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At it's base, Budo is about surviving. So being able to defeat the other guy is a given. But far more important is the skill to recognize and get away from trouble.
It is not a new idea for most of us. We have heard it said in various ways at various times.

But what about concrete examples? Each area might be a bit different. I would like to hear some ways people pass this type of thing on.

For me, if I were ever to teach, I would make my students watch the video "Safe in the Street" by Marc MacYoung and read the book "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker. Then I would take them on a tour of some semi-bad areas and try to pass along some of the stuff that MacYoung and others showed me about the way people act and react to their surroundings.


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