{"id":11242,"date":"2019-11-13T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:37:12","slug":"warrior-awareness-the-killing-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/13\/warrior-awareness-the-killing-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Awareness: The Killing Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\nThere is a 90% chance that you, Dear Reader, are right-handed.\n\nLeft-handedness has an approximate 10% distribution in human populations.\n\nSome research shows there is an approximate 30% of us who delegate tasks between hands, so called ambidexterity. But if we dig deeper on this mixed-handedness, it is not true even-handedness. This 30% still shows a hand preference on fine motor skill work.\n\nDisclosure:<\/u><\/strong> I am a righty who boxes southpaw, signs my name with my right hand, works the Bowie knife and tomahawk<\/a> with the right hand, but finds that my left hand is more facile in gunwork.<\/a> I'm in that 30% twilight zone but... when confronted with a new task or as skills deteriorate under stress-drills (extreme cold et cetera) the right-hand dominance manifests more starkly. So, keep in mind ambidexterity is not a true 50\/50 proposition.\n\n\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n\nFor my boxing Brethren out there, even the \"ambidextrous\" Marvelous Marvin Hagler was not truly so. When it hit the fan we see the shift to the preferred side.\n\nFor our combat purposes today, let's look to a skill that was part and parcel of indigenous warrior ability and is still a huge part of awareness for today's law enforcement and wise civilian operators.\n\nThe ability to spot pechari mo'obe.<\/em><\/strong>\n\nThat is Comanche for the ability to see \"the Killing Hand.\"<\/strong>\n\nThe Killing Hand<\/em>, is the hand that will wield the weapon with utmost facility, the hand that will flick into the face with the greatest speed, the hand likely to be wound up in the uneducated haymaker, the hand that indicates the side of the body that will show greatest facility and likely tendency in grappling and scuffling once an altercation hits the ground.\n
\n\t\t[dfads params='groups=290&limit=1&orderby=random']<\/div>\nGood Warriors were expected to train themselves to spot handedness at a glance<\/u><\/em> and this was not merely in humans. Other species show left and right preferences with almost the same 90\/10 distribution.\n\nA good warrior would watch which hoof the mustang scratches the ground with to know which is most likely to strike in a forefoot strike, and the good horseman can make a better approach to the off-side.\n\nToss a toy to your dog and\/or cat and watch which paw performs most of the pinning work and you now have a read of the left\/right dominance. And if your animal should ever turn feral in the coming domestic pet zombie apocalypse you have a better strategy as to which side is the off-side for corralling and approach for the killing shot.\n\nAs for reading human handedness...\n\nWhenever anyone walks anywhere with anything in their hand, they tell us what they value.\n\nIt may not be the dominant hand itself doing the carrying but we are getting a read on value \u2014 more on hand and value in a moment.\n\nThe flip-side of the Killing Hand<\/em> was Hiding your Killing Hand<\/em>.\n\nMany warrior traditions ask that you carry nothing in your hands that is not a weapon<\/a>, a tool<\/a>, or a loved one. Carrying anything else showed weakness, insecurity, and tipped your hand so to speak.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n\nThe lesson, in modern context, would dictate that modern men and women who consider themselves Warriors should walk with nothing in their hands ready to face whatever is out there. I don't care if it's a trip to the grocery store. The only things that should be in your hands are a tool you are getting ready to use (shopping carts count), a weapon at the ready )only in dire times or hunting), the hand of a loved one, or a burden you are carrying to a car for someone else.\n\nAnything else in a Warrior's hands is a security blanket telling a story of dependence, if it's a phone in hand that is not being used, well, we have a story of dependence.\n\nIf we feel the need to travel with an item in our hands, we are signaling that we \"need\" it.\n\nThe Warrior tradition asks us to look at what we hold and question our relationship with it.\n\nNon-PC Observation:<\/u> Women are the more attractive half of our species.\n\nWomen are curves. Men respond to curves. Woman respond to curves as well. Woman dress for curves\u2014whether that be accenting curves you consider of good advertising value or de-accenting curves one sees as detriment. It's about sleeking up the curves.\n\nNo woman would buy jeans that makes her posterior look boxy. They would be selected from the rack, tried on, glanced at in the mirror, and re-racked asap.\n\nAnd yet there is zero compunction for many about throwing that boxy phone into the back pocket and throwing off the curvature. This signals the phone is valued over the presentation. That signals something pretty significant \u2014 you are gonna be dealing with that phone.\n\nWatch for this phone-in-pocket signal and tell me I'm wrong.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n\nHandedness Signals<\/u>\n\nA few fairly hard rules for detecting handedness.\n