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Our relationship lasted until after I graduated. She left her husband and I’d left school, and she came over to my apartment one day and we talked about doing it properly. Continue reading
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My Dark Vanessa
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Reading with tags Andrea Dworkin, Bessel Van Der Kolk, facebook, Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa, The Body Keeps the Score, trauma on August 2, 2020 by Jarrod Boyle
Reality-Based Self Defense: Scenario Training – 1
Posted in Journalism with tags martial arts, Melissa Harries, Mindset Abilities, psychology, reality-based self-defence, self-defence, stress, stress inoculation, trauma, Victoria Police on October 5, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Blitz Magazine, September 2014 Vol. 28. No.9
Nearly all of the world’s top self-defence instructors advocate some sort of stress-inoculation training. The logic is that in order to know your technique will work under pressure, you must test yourself beforehand. That said, how does scenario training affect trainees mentally, and is it really necessary? After all, many have successfully defended themselves without having done a minute’s scenario training, and some report traumatic responses afterwards. JARROD BOYLE investigates. Continue reading
