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“He who excels at resolving difficulties does so before they arise. He who excels in conquering his enemies triumphs before threats materialize.” – Sun Tzu, ‘The Art Of War”
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Some people think just because I train the use of violence as your ultimate survival tool that it means all Target Focus Training(tm) is about is fighting.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Here’s a classic example of a TFT trained client’s reaction to avoidable violence. Matt, one of my Mastery students, posted this sad story on our TFT Mastery Forum.
TFT Mastery is for those clients who wish to learn more or who are studying to become certified TFT Trainers. Matt kindly allowed me to share his observations with you:
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“In Dallas we have a famous little nightspot called the Gypsy Tea Room. You can see acts like Ben Harper, Edie Brickel, Old 97’s, etc.
“Recently, a father of two teenage girls decided to take his girls to an end-of-summer show before they left for college. Before the show was over he ended up having a severed spinal cord injury and can feel nothing from the neck down. Why?
“Needless social violence.
“He engaged a ’skinhead’ in a verbal altercation because the skinhead made a comment to one of his daughters. This led to male posturing, yelling, etc. And then the skinhead opened his ‘toolbox of violence’ first and pummeled the guy to the floor.
“As the father was on the floor the skinhead stomped down on his face and severed the man’s spinal cord somewhere between c1-c5. This all occurred right in front of his two daughters.
“Situations like this remind me of the many reasons I thank God TFT came into my life.
“Why?
“Most people would think that I would say this because if I were this father I would have kicked the skinhead’s ass because of my training.
“WRONG!
“Because of what I learned from TFT I would not have engaged the skinhead in any verbal altercation. If the skinhead tried to start a verbal altercation I would have gotten my girls and myself out of the club immediately. All the while trying to look like a coward — the wimp.
“Don’t get me wrong; if the situation were going to become violent I would have made it very violent.
“But, more than likely, simply leaving the club would have saved this man a lifetime of paralysis and spared his daughters from witnessing this horrific act.
“TFT gives us a plan, choices, and many tools to pull out of the toolbox. As cliché as it may sound, life is about the choices we make. Thank you, TFT, for the education that you’ve given myself and countless others in order that we may make the right choices when it come to violence.
“The father is a local high-end trim carpenter and has a home in a very wealthy part of Dallas. The club that he was hurt in, along with the band, had a fund- raising 5k run for him this weekend. The skinhead fled to California and was arrested later that week.
“I firmly believe that the skinhead’s stomp to the face was merely intended to cause cosmetic damage not severe the man’s spinal cord.
“The skinhead knew how to use violence as a tool but clearly did not understand targets and injury to those targets.
“I am constantly amazed that we get the question ‘does this stuff work?’ from many of the students. This ’stuff’ works far better than they understand. Violence is at work everyday, everywhere.
“Be good to yourself today.”
-Matt
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Let me say it one more time….
When violence IS the answer, it’s the ONLY answer. If you don’t know how to use it then you’re screwed — and very likely dead!
BUT SINCE IT RARELY IS THE ANSWER, if you don’t know WHEN to use it, then you’re equally screwed (and may wish you were dead)!
That’s why there are videos and DVDs and live training — even this newsletter. I don’t care what you use to learn this information but get something so you understand you DO have a choice when violence enters your life.
Enough said.
Until next time,
Tim Larkin
Master Close-Combat Instructor, Creator of Target Focus(TM) Training
PS. My 2 1/2-day live training classes are definitely more expensive than others for one very simple reason — THEY WORK! That’s why they’re 100% guaranteed. You learn how to handle a situation like the one just described with total confidence, even if you’ve never faced a violent confrontation in your life. And you learn how and why you must AVOID violence at all costs except in the rarest of instances. To read more about this highly unique training visit:
http://www.targetfocustraining.com/livetraining
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