Yes people train to be parents. There are classes for it.
But most people don't go to those classes. Or maybe I'm the only one who didn't.
People train to go to college by working hard to do well in high school, which helps them to win fully or partially paid scholarships. How many hours were put into studying and training the mind and the skill sets? In tribes and villages the youth are trained to take the roles that they have as adults, this includes being parents and hunters. This same type of training also happens in modern societies
Give it up. High school is on one hand nothing like college. On the other, at best, being as generous as possible, on the job training for college. I don't know what the heck you're talking about with the tribal stuff.
That's the point I was making. You can't be good in school unless you go to school. You can't be a good parent unless you are a parent.
This isn't training, though. School isn't training (well, I mean, it's inherently training, but being a student isn't training to be a student). You get a 2.5 in Eng 101, that's it. That's your grade. You could possibly go back and retake the class, but you're live. You're not pretending to be a student in preparation to be a student.
One doesn't pretend to be a parent in order to prepare to be a parent. No amount of playing with dolls will replicate the responsibilities of a parent.
But I agree with you that you must go to school to be a good student, and you must be a parent to be a good parent.
You can't be good in self defense unless you practice self-defense
Ah, see, you lost me at "practice." That's not the same thing.
and the quality time and training that you put into it will determine how well you are able to perform.
Errr... yeah... I agree that quality time and training are important, but you seem to be willfully ignoring the elephant in the room here. Or maybe you just truly don't see it. I don't know.
There have been people who have not done cooking who are able to cook well. There are people who have never flown planes, who have flown and landed planes in emergencies. The important things between exceptions and training is that it's an exception and not a norm.
And there are people who have never trained in a martial art who have successfully defended themselves from a mugger, rapist or potential homicidal maniac. I'm not sure what you're driving at here.
The "typical self defenser" trains movement not self defense. This is evidence by not having sparring or using resistance appropriately. Train by doing.
If fighting and self-defense means that a person has to block and avoid punches and kicks, then training should include this. Kicks and punches should be similar and as close to real punches and resistance as possible, without resulting in injuries that prevent training or cause permanent damage. For example, Flight Simulators.
If you look at what people do to be good in something you'll see that they put quality time in training and learning. But when it comes to self-defense many people short-cut their training and expect to be good at something that they don't spend time in actually training. I have a student that only shows up for a sparring class and a regular class. So she only gets 1 class of drilling kung fu techniques. She gets down on herself that she's not fighting well in sparring class. What she fails to understand is that she only does 1 class learning kung fu techniques which is 1 hour of week. Sparring class is used to help students learn how to use during the regular classes. So while she is getting the sparring in, she's not getting the other half which is learning the techniques.
I like where you're headed here, but you should distinguish between what you're doing and self defense.
