loki09789
Senior Master
"Experience" is not condusive of success in a self defense encounter. The experienced vet could take a bullet just as easily as the green private. The experienced "brawler" can be taken out by a first timer. One doesn't mean the other."
"Experience", the way you are using it implies only successful outcomes - not always the case. "Experience" just means that you have 'been there done that' maybe be survival was just dumb luck. But it is essential to a fighters development because, if it was an 'unsuccessful' experience, the fighter will be forced to assess what went wrong: observation skills, judgement, fighting skills, personal courage...and train/prepare better/differently. Individual or military unit, if you get your a(* handed to you on a platter, but are lucky enough to survive, that is essential to the development of the fighter.
Successful 'experiences' are both indicative of and conducive to fighter development because the fighter will be more confident in a theoretical future situation, and sometimes that confidence will come through in bearing, making him seem like a less likely target. More successes in diverse situations will reinforce the application of the fundamentals the fighter is applying, and in his will and judgement about using it.
A fighter with in depth, realistic, intense training will have confidence in himself and his abilities, but without experiencing the reality, confidence is like faith - and a very essential component to survival success. A fighter with experience will have knowledge that they can or can't do it and have to make adjustments from there.
"Since this is true, experience is not a nessecity in developing skill, or abilities when we are refering to "combatives".
True, the development of skills/abilities can be honed and refined in training, but the fighter as a human complete package will develop as a whole from experience more from experience than the lack of it.
Paul M
"Experience", the way you are using it implies only successful outcomes - not always the case. "Experience" just means that you have 'been there done that' maybe be survival was just dumb luck. But it is essential to a fighters development because, if it was an 'unsuccessful' experience, the fighter will be forced to assess what went wrong: observation skills, judgement, fighting skills, personal courage...and train/prepare better/differently. Individual or military unit, if you get your a(* handed to you on a platter, but are lucky enough to survive, that is essential to the development of the fighter.
Successful 'experiences' are both indicative of and conducive to fighter development because the fighter will be more confident in a theoretical future situation, and sometimes that confidence will come through in bearing, making him seem like a less likely target. More successes in diverse situations will reinforce the application of the fundamentals the fighter is applying, and in his will and judgement about using it.
A fighter with in depth, realistic, intense training will have confidence in himself and his abilities, but without experiencing the reality, confidence is like faith - and a very essential component to survival success. A fighter with experience will have knowledge that they can or can't do it and have to make adjustments from there.
"Since this is true, experience is not a nessecity in developing skill, or abilities when we are refering to "combatives".
True, the development of skills/abilities can be honed and refined in training, but the fighter as a human complete package will develop as a whole from experience more from experience than the lack of it.
Paul M