There was an incident that just happened to me yesterday. I was in a sporting goods place with my 10-year daughter whom I love more than life itself, when this rude and angry worker carrying an armful of large flat cardboard boxes, in some sort of enraged rush, passes carelessly by my daughter and almost clips her in the face with the boxes. She manages to move her head back just in time without getting hit.
“Hey, dude! Say excuse me or something! You almost hit my daughter in the face!” I shout out to him in anger. He turns, looks at me with smug indifference, and just shrugs his shoulders as though to say, “What the hell do I care.” “Look, guy, just fool around and hit my daughter, and we can step outside.” To this he just looked at me with a blank stare, and walked away into a stock room. We then left.
Let me let you in on a little secret. If that had gone down differently, that is, if he had become aggressive with me and had said, “Fine, let’s step outside and settle this,” I wouldn’t have waited to walk outside with him. I would have “sucker punched” or “clock” him with a strong preemptive strike to some vital area like the eyes, throat or tip of the jaw, right then and there, in that aisle between the jogging shoes and the table tennis displays. This is why you must learn how to physically respond in very closed spaces.
The 3 Reasons Why You Must Train for Scenario-Based Fighting In Closed Spaces
Reason #1 - It Is In Closed Spaces Where Many Real Fights Do Happen – Sure, you usually see in the movies where guys are going at it in the parking lots or in some other open space, but real-world fights happen in enclosed rooms with plenty of furniture and objects all around. This could be in a club, an apartment stairway, or a sporting goods place.
Reason #2 - You Are Only As Good A Fighter As When And How You Train – If you only train in the wide open spaces of a martial arts dojo, I promise you, you will feel confined and out of your element the moment you find yourself having to defend yourself in a tight space or an enclosed room.
Reason #3 - You Begin To Understand What Really Works In Real-World Confrontation – In close and tight spaces, you are just not going to be able to execute your favorite flying side kick or your spinning back hand fist strike. Once you start training in enclosed areas, you may begin to realize that a lot of what you are spending your time to learn in your dojo is absolutely worthless in most street situations.
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We are addicted to our beliefs. No truer words can be spoken than when someone is emotionally involved in the history and the culture of a so-called fighting system. My question is this. What would attract anyone to the study of Capoeira? I don’t know about you, but I have noticed a proportionally high number of women who are attracted to this sport, uh, excuse me, I meant to say martial art. It is beautiful. It is graceful. It consists of many acrobatic and somersaulting types of moves, and of course, it is usually accompanied by a rhythmic African drum beat. Sounds like ballet to me. However, I digress.
There are 3 reasons why Capoeira is ineffective as a reality-based street fighting system:
Reason #1 – It Relies On Too Many Complicated Acrobatic High Kicks and Flips – What the hell do you want to be flipping around and somersaulting like a jackass when some guy is about to attack you with a knife! The minute you take to the air, you are no longer grounded to fight.
Reason #2 – By Nature Of Its Acrobatic Moves, This Fighting System Discriminates Against All But The Young And Most Flexible – I know a lot of combat-ready close quarters fighters in their 40′s, 50′s and 60′s who could handle themselves very well in a street confrontation. None of them that I know would resort to any of the insane acrobatics of Capoeira.
Reason #3 – Capoeira Is Based On Dance And Choreographed Movements – By the fact that this so-called fighting system is based on dance, rhythm and choreographed movements set to music, this runs counter to the chaotic, explosive, wild, confusing and unpredictable nature of a real fight. Let’s hear the musical score set to a street fight.
One last question. Have you ever, ever heard of anyone successfully defending himself in a life or death street struggle using Capoeira? I don’t hear any answer. I rest my case.
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Why do you sign your kids up for karate classes?
Is it for self defense, physical fitness or just for someplace to drop them off during a long and boring summer? Well, let me address the most serious aspect of why you could be having your kid take up karate, or any traditional martial arts class, for that matter. I am just using karate here because it is the style that most people are accustomed to. I could also be referring to kids taekwondo or kids kung fu.
If your desire for your 7-year old to learn karate is to learn real self defense, then alas, I must say that you are in for a rude awakening. Here, I will show you 3 reasons why kids karate, the way it is typically taught in your strip mall dojos, can only be play karate and never a real children’s self protection system.
3 Reasons Why Kids’ Karate As It Is Typically Taught Can Only Be A Play Karate
#1 – Karate Kid Self Defense Is Not Taught From An Adult-Attacking-Kid Perspective - You would think that kids could be taught to go toe-to-toe with a mature, experienced or violent child predator, if they had to, by teaching them fun things such as high kicks, katas, bare feet fighting, honor, respect and bowing to your opponent before sparring. None of these things could ever prepare a 60-lb. child from a sudden abduction attempt of a 200 lb. man.
#2 – Kids’ Karate Classes Rarely Address Nor Emphasize The Reality of Child Abduction – Most kids’ karate classes teach lots of fun high kicks and physical fitness, but never seem to teach and address reality-case counters and escapes that a child could use to escape an abduction.
#3 – Kids’ Karate Classes Never Teach What Really Works for Child Self Protection Against An Adult – Biting, eye-scratching, head-butts and running are the things that work for a child in real-world self defense situations involving a strange adult attacking a child.
So, for the meanwhile, I’ll keep complaining about the lack of reality-training for kids – and they will continue shouting – “Ki-ai” !
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