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		<title>Peace is an interesting ideal</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/11/peace-is-an-interesting-ideal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace is an interesting ideal, Rory Miller says, depending on how you define it: Like a lot of ideals, it&#8217;s squishy enough that you can have other ideals directly opposed to your stated ends and throw enough words into the justification to miss the point. The thing that gets me about peace activists is that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Emeritus</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/09/professor-emeritus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, Rory Miller took an introductory Oceanography class that was taught by a professor emeritus who came out of retirement once a year just to teach this one class: What follows is from memory, and I&#8217;m sure over the decades it has altered, but I remember his first lecture starting like this: The sun [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Surviving the Duel</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2011/09/the-art-of-surviving-the-duel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Martinez Academy of Arms in New York, they teach the (rather obsolete) art of surviving the duel: The academy is one of a few remaining places in the world where a nearly extinct tradition of European swordsmanship is studied and passed down from master to student, said its founder, Ramón Martínez, 57. Mr. Martínez [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scenario Training</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/06/scenario-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller (Meditations on Violence) recommends scenario training: So in scenario training, you start with what you want the student to learn. You wanted the student to learn how to tap into her inner beast and let go? You can set up scenarios for that. You want to get a student over some deep personal conditioning? [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Striking Deficit</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2010/05/the-striking-deficit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 18:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller (Meditations on Violence) discusses the striking deficit in self-defense training: I&#8217;m trying to brainstorm my way around a training artifact. Proper striking can be effective. I&#8217;ve put people down and broken bones with techniques ranging from hook punches to slaps. On the other hand, they&#8217;re really idiosyncratic. If anyone tells you that a specific [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Craft</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/12/the-craft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller (Meditations on Violence) shares his thoughts on the craft of writing &#8212; and some other arts and crafts: Writing is like money. It&#8217;s also like fighting. And like driving. It is one of those things where the people who deal with it professionally don&#8217;t think of it the way that amateurs do. Raised [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Jikkyoshado</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/jikkyoshado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller (Meditations on Violence) may have to rename his personal fighting style jikkyoshado: Once upon a time, waiting to start a class I noticed a guy outside trying to change his tire. The tire was slung under the truck and he had a rod which was supposed to be inserted into a socket and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Solutions to problems that aren&#8217;t problems</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/11/solutions-to-problems-that-arent-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller notes that many self-defense discussions revolve around solutions to problems that aren&#8217;t problems: Someone grabs your wrists, what do you do? I just say, &#8220;I know you&#8217;re desperate but I am not going out with you.&#8221; I know where his hands are. Where his feet are. What he can do and what he [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Early Love</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/10/early-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Miller discusses his early love of judo: I loved the strategy, the feeling of flight and even the impact. I loved the work out, the exhaustion. Going to muscle failure in my hands and abs several times a night. I loved, loved, loved the sensation of finding the perfect moment and sending a bigger [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Glitches and Denial</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/glitches-and-denial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In self-defense, catastrophic failures come from glitches, Rory Miller says &#8212; from choking: I&#8217;ve put a man through scenarios, a big, tough jail guard with probably a hundred fights under his belt and he could not point a real gun at another human being. He wasn&#8217;t even aware that he wasn&#8217;t doing it. I&#8217;ve seen [&#8230;]]]></description>
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