So a reason you and your kids should do full-contact sports is they’re great for generalizing life lessons and metaphors from

Think of all the 20th century politics-as-football (at the collective level) or -boxing (personal)

Anyway one of the things that sticks with me from the dojo is if someone comes at you holding a weapon you sidestep or deflect the weapon, or if you really wanna be a dick get closer than its minimum range, and then you attack the arm holding it