Simple Self Defense
Our society has turned into a culture where everyone wants everything right away no matter what, and yesterday isn’t soon enough. Good things take time, but something like self defense training you do need right away.
Real martial arts training can’t be rushed. Despite what instructors who work for black belt mills and McDojos say, it takes years to learn a martial art. It could take up to five years for a student to earn their black belt from a legitimate martial arts school, but you might not have that long. You aren’t going to live at the school until you’re ready for a street fight and thieves, rapists, and murders aren’t going to wait around until you know how to fight back. While martial arts training can take years to learn, the fundamentals of self defense don’t take very long at all – allowing you to have time to train in whatever style you enjoy.
One of the dirty little secrets of the martial arts industry is that most people who learn martial arts aren’t learning self defense. How can this be true? After all, most schools list self defense as one of the many things you will learn. Well, you’re being lied to or at the very least being misled. Most people who take martial arts like karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu are actually just learning a combat sport. Because those styles and others are considered sports, safety precautions have been built in so that nobody gets seriously hurt or killed while they’re competing and training. Now these sports are a lot of fun and are great for combat conditioning, but they don’t replace basic self defense training.
A street fight is a raw primal battle where fighters act more like animals than well trained or refined men and women. You have to know how to bite, head butt, and eye gouge an opponent in a fight, and you don’t have time for complex techniques. There is even a right way and a wrong way to punch someone, and most people have no idea that the edge of hand does even more damage. When you’re reacting to the stress of battle you won’t be thinking straight so you need to use simple self defense techniques to survive. Most martial arts styles are too complex to use in an actual fight so even trained martial arts instructors will often go back to the basics in a real fight.
You shouldn’t stop training in your favorite martial arts style, but you do need to start learning self defense techniques that will work in the worst conditions. A fight is all about hurting someone badly enough so they aren’t about to hurt you, and you don’t have time to waste. Your black belt might be years away, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn what you need to survive now. Real self defense training is about making the most out of your basic actions, and maximizing damage, and it should be simple enough for anyone to do.
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Captin Chris is right. Ihave a freind that teaches martial arts. He told me that he would hate to fight me because i’m a street fighter. Not saying i’m a bad ass, but i’ve been fighting in bars and parking lots for years. He says street fighters are too unpredictable in a fight. So keep this in mind, please be ready for anything, anywhere. I’m not a bad guy. I just carry myself with confidence and people like to try me. But iam always looking and reading for an edge against would be attackers. Those kind of people are always learning too.
i think i have finally figured it out… i mean your secret behind this system. the british commandos meant to use it as an art of war, and i realized that in war or on the street there is no rulebook. every martial art has something to throw into that catagory, maybe one or two good techniques, but as a whole, none of them qualify as self defense. you have to go all out. finger dart, finger jab, edge of hand, whipkick, tiger claw, drop steps, palm strikes, knee strikes, elbow strikes, stomps, foot thrusts, wristlocks, punch stops, hand yokes, snapping chops, and the usual fouls of combat sports. these include: headbutting, biting, hair pulling, eye gouging, low blows, small joint manipulation, etc.
if this is incorrect or i missed something, hit me back as soon as possible.
what happened to the guerrilla grappling link?
what do you mean by “worst conditions”? are we talking about punches, kicks, or what?