Posted on Monday, 1st December 2008 by Captain Chris
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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