Hi there,
Here at FCMA HQ (East) we've just had a new member of the team join us. BOB (aka as a body opponent bag) is a durable training partner, designed to allow full impact halting drills with resistance.
He's a joy to work with and has yet to complain about what time of day or night we train, how long we train for or indeed the cold weather at the moment.
Short on conversation but long on good old fashioned repetitive training I'm hoping we'll have many years of training together. I love him!
On a more serious note, training aids take so many shapes and forms and anything that takes us nearer to the conditions and circumstances under which we may need to take a radically embodied compassionate response to anger or conflict are to be welcomed.
Have a think about your own favourite way of training, training aids (pads, drills, forms, kit) and see if you can focus on increasing your felt sense of distress tolerance as you hone your skills and strive to be fully halting, not harmful or hurtful.
Train smart, train safe.
Syd