[glangdale]

> Easier said then done...

Indeed. I have trouble imagining how - or why - cultivating this mentality would be possible or useful. Given one doesn't have access to a pool of "would be" attackers, nor anyone who has had said access, it seems far more likely that one will develop a acute sense of the intentions of "martial arts dudes pretending to be would-be attackers".

At the very least, it was always possible (though shockingly rare in practice) to pad up and see you how things would go against a fully committed rugby tackle - or at least get an approximation. I don't see how the equivalent reality check can be done for weapons; at least not without the luxury of having a pre-gunpowder battlefield to experiment on.