“Life ELEVATED” is the Utah brand/ tag line, so I might be in some sort of copyright issue, and what the heck…ELEVATE Life, specifically, “your life” is the topic of this week’s Life Defense.
I’m not a native of Utah, and I’ve lived here for almost 25 years. That might mean I’ve got altitude sickness, and eaten way too much green Jello. Both of those terminologies and my fascination with fry sauce may identify me as a Utahn and so I’m going to borrow it anyway.
ELEVATION has everything to do with perspective right? A catsup bottle might look like a skyscraper to and ant and a condiment to a human. In our self-defense training this week were defending from a kick with a body block, and immediate leg dump. The leg dump technique is basically catching their leg and ELEVATING it while stepping into their center to throw the would be attacker. This technique works best against mid to high kicks.
I was training some people earlier today and asked them about kicks. We talked about the difference between a highly unlikely, flashy head kick, and a lackluster low, practical kick to the knee which might work most of the time.
The head kick, popularized in Hollywood, is where the agile, fit, hot actress or actor does some CG spinning head kick and knocks their opponent out immediately, does a variation of this to few more bad guys, mixed with neck breaking head twists, before defusing the bomb. I can never remember, is it the red or blue wire you’re supposed to cut with the mandatory 1 second left on the clock?
In the case of jump spinning head kicks, and all else that follows, it’s fake, most people with sense know it, and the few with actual training for sure know it. Which part is fake you ask…? All of it. That’s why they call it acting. Interesting fact, the word origin for actor is “liar.”
What does this have to do with ELEVATED Life? Everything.
We are living in a Hollywood movie! That’s why our perspective is all screwed up. The amount of pure fiction we consume each, and every day of our life is staggering. It’s a wonder we survive at all.
What if, in life we consider the precious few truths, and stop sweating the jump spinning head kicks? They hardly ever land on target anyway.
I think of all the fake news, fake social media and fake pop culture, that I can live without. In fact, I can live much longer and better without all that stuff!
For me, I’m going to focus on the truth, and sort of ignore most of the rest. How about you? After all, it’s all in your perspective anyway…
#allenhughes #elevate #lifedefense
Photo by Paul Deetman: https://www.pexels.com/photo/hollywood-sign-2695679/
