{"id":2860,"date":"2023-07-24T13:03:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2023-07-24T13:03:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:03:56","slug":"on-fences-and-frames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/24\/on-fences-and-frames\/","title":{"rendered":"ON FENCES AND FRAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Is it really that \u201ceasy\u201d to utilize a fence projecting a \u201cLook, bro, I don\u00b4t want to fight\u201d message and simply de-escalate potential violence. I often question this – deeply. Don\u00b4t get me wrong, giving off a message of non-violence for onlookers, potential witnesses, and the 3rd-party interveners is an invaluable element that could come into play in the aftermath. AND, tactically speaking, having hands innocuously half-way to the target, creating depth-perception problems for potential attack or counterattack, and active hands where ballistic and non-telegraphed make a strike out of motion that much more difficult to defend are all golden. But that is often not what I hear the explanation presented giving off. The above in the previous sentence are the \u201cfor what\u201d the thing is done. The aftermath elements the \u201cwhy.\u201d And is it really so easy? I mean, you\u00b4ve already been singled out by someone as an easy or desired target, is \u201cI don\u00b4t want any trouble\u201d messaging even a good idea all the time when inevitably if it\u00b4s gotten to the point where you\u00b4ve already found it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In my experience here, if someone has picked you as a potential target and already approached you on it, the \u201cI\u00b4m just minding my own business, bro\u2026\u201d messaging has generally already passed. You\u00b4re already \u201cin the mix\u201d at that point. For me \u2013 personally, me, and my experience \u2013 projecting a \u201cI don\u00b4t want this but I AM ready for it should you choose to persist\u201d is far more invaluable. So, what\u00b4s the difference. Well, nuance. Curved, prepared, forward-leaning torso. Staggered feet. Looking through the roots-of-the-eyes. Intensity on face. Calm, intentioned scanning of the area without turning the head. Circling or altered angles. Dictating and dominating your space and subliminally enforcing entry into that space. Shifts that make covert weapon-deployment achievable without drawing attention and escalating response. Low growling or feral vocalizations. These are all little intricacies that I rarely hear mentioned when discussing \u201cfences\u201d or \u201cframes\u201d and there\u00b4s simply a lot more to this than \u201cjust a posture.\u201d There are psychic, subliminal, corporal micro-messages that are given off to subtly deter a potential predator into assuming you\u00b4re anything but a very hard-target and one that will \u201cup the cost or price paid .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I so often see videos of the fence that make it so simple as to be stupid and unbelievable. Understand the dynamics of how violence begins. If you\u00b4re projecting a passive reaction, note too that you are behind the proverbial 8-ball to sell your will to disengage. And in most videos, I see the \u201cvictim\u201d back-peddling, with straight body, verbalizing weak or non-convincing commands, and psychically giving-off target-messaging. To sell what it is you\u00b4re claiming to peddle, you will inevitably be reacting second, the timing-ratio, space, and initiation will be in the control of your opponent, and, well, adrenaline and stress-physiology will have time to build to a crescendo in the anticipatory phase \u2013 especially if you don\u00b4t buy your own bullshit. Predators, at least here, can smell that. They know when you\u00b4re feigning submission, and when you\u00b4re projecting it non-consciously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It so often seems we still universally believe in the “stupid criminal” (assume they\u00b4re more experienced and clear on these events than we are), one that capitulates almost instantaneously (they are most often resource predators with resource needed quite clear), and that they\u00b4re inferior with violence (they\u00b4re out there daily doing just what we only train for). Something to think on long and hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it really that \u201ceasy\u201d to utilize a fence projecting a \u201cLook, bro, I don\u00b4t want to fight\u201d message and simply de-escalate potential violence. I often question this – deeply. Don\u00b4t get me wrong, giving off a message of non-violence for onlookers, potential witnesses, and the 3rd-party interveners is an invaluable element that could come … Continue reading ON FENCES AND FRAMES<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2860\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}