If you're fit, you can run faster/hit harder/yell louder/generally present a less appealing target.
Although, knowing yourself psychologically as well as physically capable of poking someone's eye out or breaking their knee is quite confidence-building, let me tell you.
(Not many women train with my teacher, but he prefers to teach us. He thinks we're better at it and are more likely to need it.)
I recall a self-defense class I took in highschool, where one of the girls bit the instructor on the knee and left him walking with a cane for the rest of the course.
There're just times when given the choice, I'd like to be fit without ever risking being attractive.
Am not currently in that particular funk, although I think the phrase "risking being attractive" explains and connotes and summarizes more than I ever want it to.
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Date: 2007-07-17 09:19 pm (UTC)If you're fit, you can run faster/hit harder/yell louder/generally present a less appealing target.
Although, knowing yourself psychologically as well as physically capable of poking someone's eye out or breaking their knee is quite confidence-building, let me tell you.
(Not many women train with my teacher, but he prefers to teach us. He thinks we're better at it and are more likely to need it.)
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Date: 2007-07-17 10:41 pm (UTC)Good times, good times.
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Date: 2007-07-17 11:02 pm (UTC)Plus, you know, given the choice between defending my life now and maybe being sick later, I'll clamp down like a freaking pit bull.
We recommend elbows over teeth too...
Date: 2007-07-18 02:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-19 04:20 pm (UTC)There're just times when given the choice, I'd like to be fit without ever risking being attractive.
Am not currently in that particular funk, although I think the phrase "risking being attractive" explains and connotes and summarizes more than I ever want it to.