Your instructor seems like a sensible fellow. Indeed, there are various focuses to the martial arts and what is taught in a particular school won't meet every r

Your instructor seems like a sensible fellow. Indeed, there are various focuses to the martial arts and what is taught in a particular school won't meet every requirement. I've found this article very useful for summarising this idea: http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/four_focuses.html http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/four_focuses.html Unsurprisingly, it puts what I teach (HEMA) almost entirely in category 2, though some parts might be very slightly relevant to some of the other areas from time to time.