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Meditations on Violence Rory Miller

Meditations on Violence By Rory Miller

Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller


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Explores the complexity of violence, critical thinking, and the mind of the predator. This title offers martial arts training guidance and resources, and discusses how to overcome personal fears, and how to deal with the aftermath of violent encounters.

Meditations on Violence Summary

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence by Rory Miller

A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real-World Violence.

Experienced martial artist and veteran correction officer Sgt. Rory Miller distills what he has learned from jailhouse brawls, tactical operations and ambushes to explore the differences between martial arts and the subject martial arts were designed to deal with: Violence.

Sgt. Miller introduces the myths, metaphors and expectations that most martial artists have about what they will ultimately learn in their dojo. This is then compared with the complexity of the reality of violence. Complexity is one of the recurring themes throughout this work.

Section Two examines

  • how to think critically about violence;
  • how to evaluate sources of knowledge and clearly explains the concepts of strategy and tactics.

Sections Three and Four focus on

  • the dynamics of violence itself and;
  • the predators who perpetuate it.

Drawing on hundreds of encounters and thousands of hours spent with criminals Sgt. Miller explains the types of violence; how, where, when and why it develops; the effects of adrenaline; how criminals think, and even the effects of drugs and altered states of consciousness in a fight.

Section Five centers on

  • training for violence;
  • and adapting your present training methods to that reality.

It discusses the pros and cons of modern and ancient martial arts training and gives a unique insight into early Japanese kata as a military training method.

Section Six is all about

  • how to make self-defense work.

Miller examines how to look at defense in a broader context, and how to overcome some of your own subconscious resistance to meeting violence with violence.

The final section deals with the aftermath

  • the cost of surviving sudden violence or violent environments;
  • how it can change you for good or bad.

It gives advice for supervisors and even for instructors on how to help a student/survivor. You'll even learn a bit about enlightenment.

About Rory Miller

Rory Miller is a writer and teacher living peacefully in the Pacific Northwest. He has served for seventeen years in corrections as an officer and sergeant working maximum security, booking and mental health; leading a tactical team; and teaching subjects ranging from Defensive Tactics and Use of Force to First Aid and Crisis Communications with the Mentally Ill. For fourteen months he was an advisor to the Iraqi Corrections System working in Baghdad and Kurdish Sulaymaniyah. Somewhere in the midst of that he received a BS degree in Psychology; served in the National Guard as a Combat Medic (91A/B); earned college varsities in judo and fencing and received a mokuroku in jujutsu. He has drunk chichu with reformed cannibals and 18-year-old scotch with generals...and loves long sword fights on the beach.

Additional information

NGR9781594399770
9781594399770
1594399778
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence by Rory Miller
New
Hardback
YMAA Publication Center
2023-10-19
214
Runner-up for USA Best Books Award 2008 (United States) Runner-up for Foreword Book of the Year 2008 (United States)
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