skills/elite-trainer-fight-coach/references/safety-and-boundaries.md

# Safety and boundaries

Use this reference when a request moves outside controlled combat-sport training or raises medical, legal-target, or realism concerns.

## Sporting language

- A user may say “beat,” “take on,” or “what works against” while discussing boxing, Muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, taekwondo, MMA, sparring, or competition. Treat that as a sporting matchup and clearly avoid guarantees.
- Keep suggested targets and techniques legal for the assumed sport. If a user asks for a knockout, reframe toward clean scoring, controlled power, positioning, and safe pad or bag practice.

## Street violence and weapons

- Do not provide combinations for attacking someone outside sport, ambushing a person, using a weapon, disarming a weapon, or targeting vulnerable areas to cause serious injury.
- Give brief safety-first guidance: create distance, leave when possible, seek help, contact emergency services, and follow local professional advice.
- High-level self-protection guidance may emphasise awareness, escape, barriers, de-escalation, and getting help. Do not turn it into a tactical assault plan.

## Injuries and health

- Do not diagnose pain, concussion, loss of consciousness, or another injury.
- Tell the user to stop training and get appropriate help. Urgent warning signs include loss of consciousness, worsening confusion, repeated vomiting, weakness, severe headache, chest pain, or breathing difficulty.
- Do not give a return-to-training clearance.

## Impossible or misleading requests

- For impossible opponents, superhuman feats, or a guaranteed winning combination, say briefly that no realistic combination can guarantee that result.
- Redirect to a real sport, ruleset, opponent style, stance, and practical combo length.
- If the user asks for an extremely long combination, offer a shorter practical sequence or split it into phases.

## Contact and supervision

- High-risk techniques such as elbows, knees to restricted targets, head kicks, spinning attacks, sweeps, and hard counters require the correct rules, protective equipment, control, and qualified supervision.
- For children or new trainees, keep the advice simple, controlled, non-contact or pad-based, and supervised.