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"another martial artist" already assumes that you're in some ways evenly matched - you're using the same weapons, and it's 1 on 1. What there are two, one with

by b0rsuk 5y ago

"another martial artist" already assumes that you're in some ways evenly matched - you're using the same weapons, and it's 1 on 1. What there are two, one with a metal bar and another with a broken bottle? People like to go in with overwhelming odds, that's why around 80% muggings are men against women. And the weapons they may have may be in their pockets. Fancy playing russian roulette? What if they don't attack one at a time, like in movies?

r3trohack3r 5y ago
Very much this. Most martial art studios teach over confidence and methods that fall flat on their face in the face of real assailants. Preaching martial arts as a form of discipline or structure is fine as long as you don’t attach “self defense” to it. As soon as you’re teaching self defense, the content needs to change and very few studios tackle it well. If your curriculum doesn’t teach: * Pre-incident indicators * Local law, when is violence justified * De-escalation branching into explosive violence with maximum damage * The goal is to escape safely, not submit your opponent (your opponent likely has friends, even if you don’t see them) * The difference between defending blunt weapons, bladed weapons (don’t put yourself in the blender), and firearms * Avoiding training “scars” from drilling (like handing a gun back to your opponent after a disarm, which I have second hand knowledge of someone doing in a real confrontation and dying) * Coarse motor skills > fine motor skills (your adrenaline is pumping, relying on a technical fine motor skill to save your life isn’t going to go well) You’re not prepared for street violence. Your self defense class is liable to get you killed if you ever need to use it. So far my favorite honest take on self defense is Kelly McCann’s street combatives series. I’m sure there is better content out there.
- rrauenza 5y ago
  I've also heard this story of "handing the gun back"... In the context of aikido. I could never trace it back to anything. Is your 2nd hand knowledge also through aikido?
  - r3trohack3r 5y ago
    He was a Combatives instructor, the story was from a Krav studio he attended and it was another student there.

by b0rsuk 5y ago

r3trohack3r 5y ago

Very much this. Most martial art studios teach over confidence and methods that fall flat on their face in the face of real assailants. Preaching martial arts as a form of discipline or structure is fine as long as you don’t attach “self defense” to it. As soon as you’re teaching self defense, the content needs to change and very few studios tackle it well. If your curriculum doesn’t teach: * Pre-incident indicators * Local law, when is violence justified * De-escalation branching into explosive violence with maximum damage * The goal is to escape safely, not submit your opponent (your opponent likely has friends, even if you don’t see them) * The difference between defending blunt weapons, bladed weapons (don’t put yourself in the blender), and firearms * Avoiding training “scars” from drilling (like handing a gun back to your opponent after a disarm, which I have second hand knowledge of someone doing in a real confrontation and dying) * Coarse motor skills > fine motor skills (your adrenaline is pumping, relying on a technical fine motor skill to save your life isn’t going to go well) You’re not prepared for street violence. Your self defense class is liable to get you killed if you ever need to use it. So far my favorite honest take on self defense is Kelly McCann’s street combatives series. I’m sure there is better content out there.

rrauenza 5y ago
I've also heard this story of "handing the gun back"... In the context of aikido. I could never trace it back to anything. Is your 2nd hand knowledge also through aikido?
- r3trohack3r 5y ago
  He was a Combatives instructor, the story was from a Krav studio he attended and it was another student there.