Martial Arts Classes Vs. Self Defense
• 'Self Defense' is a legal term = lawfully protecting yourself from a threat to your physical safety that you have not provoked or escalated.
• Self Defence Includes pre-empting an impending attack that cannot be avoided or defused.
• Self defence is NOT: 'fighting', dueling, or competition; defending ego, pride, or status; punishing, 'beating up', or getting even.
• Martial Arts generally focus on 'fighting', dueling, and competition.
Martial Arts are combat sports or activities that focus on physical fighting skills for fitness and competition and often include spiritual and philosophical development.
Pure Self Defense is designed to address all the overlooked aspects of training for violence that martial arts classes tend to miss.
For example: verbal de-escalation, planning an escape, mental / psychological conditioning for violence, how to prepare for potential legal issues, weapons defense, multiple attackers, critical thinking skills / thinking on your feet under pressure, adrenaline stress, and more.
There are far better options than Pure Self Defense for MMA style 'street fights' / bare-knuckle dueling / bar-room dust-ups / back alley boxing / mutual combat / and all manner of ego-driven violent encounters. If that's what you want to train 'self defense classes' or 'martial arts classes' for then Pure Self Defense is not what you're looking for and you should move onto something else.
The ultimate aim and purpose of Pure Self Defence is to help you to understand and deal with the behavior of VIOLENT HUMAN BEINGS!
Pure Self Defense exists to help regular people get home safely to their families and get out of violent or potentially violent situations as safely as possible with the tool of violence being an absolute LAST RESORT.
In fact, Pure Self Defense is great for discovering what goes on BEFORE and AFTER a 'fight' or violent encounter.
Avoiding violence is the best option and training for that is a huge part of what you will learn along with the close quarters combatives.
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Martial Arts Vs. Self Defense...
How To Know If Your Martial Arts Classes Are Helping Your Or Hurting You
When deciding on Martial Arts classes or Self Defense training, it's important to understand the purpose and differences between them.
When looking for self-defense training, a person will often go to martial arts classes first. Most martial arts instructors promote their martial arts classes as also being 'for self defense'.
However, most often this simply isn't true.
It's not that martial arts instructors are intentionally lying to you. It's that they don't understand what they are claiming to do. To most people, including martial arts instructors, self defense LOOKS a lot like 'fighting'.
We'll come back to that in a second.
Martial arts classes are great for physical fitness and for learning to compete in the sport that the martial art represents. But as for actual self defence application in a real life-and-death situtaion, the majority of martial arts just don't work. This has more to do with the way the martial art is trained than the specific martial art itself.
The single most important aspect is the delivery system. In a martial art, the delivery system is 100% PHYSICAL - you are there to fight / spar / compete.
In self defence, the delivery system is 100% BEHAVIORAL. The cold hard fact is that anyone claiming to be teaching self defense that doesn't fully understand this principle is NOT teaching you self defense.
In the context of a violent assault, self defense IS a desperate and frantic struggle for survival. It is NOTnot a 'fist fight'. In a martial arts 'fight' or 'sparring match' you could lose. In a real-world self defense situation you could die. Your mind and body are at risk of grievous harm or death. In the aftermath of an assault there isn't really a 'winner' per se, but rather, a survivor.
The unglamorous truth is that 90% of your self defense game plan is being proactively 'switched on' in order to recognize potentially dangerous situations and avoiding them before they can escalate into a crisis.
Developing situtational awareness skills, learning to trust and follow your instincts (i.e. intuition), and making yourself into an undesirable target (i.e. a 'hard target'), and avoiding doing stupid things in stupid places with stupid people is your first and most important layer of self defence. It provides you with an early warning system.
More time means you have more options.
Real-world self defense is also about managing your ego and learning the skill of verbal de-escalation, de-fusion, and negotiation. It's about learning how to MANAGE YOURSELF - to control your own ego, pride, anger, and being 'offended'.
Self defence is NEVER ego defense
The truth is, if you could have left you should have left.
If you are using violence for ego, honor, or pride, you're a fool. You will eventually kill someone, go to prison, or be killed.
The "3-Day Rule" is a good metric to measure whether or not you should get involved. It goes like this...
Ask yourself, "Will this be important in three days?"
Will this still matter in three days if I:
• ended someones life
• am in a hospital bed
• am in a jail cell
• am in the morgue / in a box in the ground
If you are a sane socialized person with a good moral code, then 99% of the time the answer will be, "No".
In the worst case scenario, self defense is about effectively being able to use the tool of violence to stop or prevent a physical assault against yourself or someone else (i.e. applying the neccessary amount of physical and psychological force sgainst another person in order to stop the attack, regardless of the environment).
In order to work under adrenal stress it must be simple and effective. Fancy moves don't live here.
It's not to say that traditional martial arts have nothing to bring to the table with regards to combativces. Many do. Part of the issue is for martial arts practitionaers to be able to sift through what is applicable in real life and what is not. If traditional martial arts schools train realistically with real behavior then the curriculum will end up weeding out the aspects that are ineffective. Unfortunately that is not what is normally the case.
The combative tools you learn must work to stop a larger, stronger, enraged attacker in any context and environment - not just a guy in a dojo.
Self defense is not an activity - it's an EDUCATION in a life-saving life-skill!
Martial Arts 'Fighting' Vs. Self Defense
Self Defense Combatives are missing several things that are found in a sport or martial arts 'fight', sparring match, bout, competitoin, etcetera - reagardless of how intense, physical, or 'brutal' the martial art is.
1. AWARENESS: Both parties are fully aware of the fight ahead of time.
2. PREPARATION: Mental, emotional, and physical preparation is done - usually weeks or even months ahead of time.
3. CONSENT: Prior agreement that both people will fight one another at a specific time and place and under specific conditions. In other words, both parties are willing participants and want to be there.
4. RULES / ENVIRONMENT: Safety rules (no: weapons, multiple attackers, 'illegal moves', etc.), time limits / rounds, presence of a referee and medical expert(s), participants can quit at any time (tap-out, throw in the towel, etc.), takes place in a safe environment free from concrete, curbs, gravel, broken glass, mud, water, moving cars, etc. All of these factors keep it safe so that no one is likely to be seriously injured or killed.
In a self defense situation NONE of the above points are available to the 'victim'. The victim does not want to participate!
In most traditional martial arts and sport fighting the mentality is most often one of sparring 'with' or fighting 'with' someone else. In self defense combatives the mentality is doing 'to' your opponent, or rather, 'attaker', just as they are trying to do something 'to' you. The goal for you is to gain control of the other person and the situation and then to turn the tables on the attacker causing a 'predator-prey switch', whereby there is a psychological role-reversal to who in that struggle is perceived as the 'prey' and who is the 'predator', giving you, the innocent victim, the upper hand, as it is a severe psychological blow to the perpetrator and goes against everything that they had anticipated as the 'desirable' outcome.
In a self defense situation NONE of the above points are available to the 'victim'. The victim does not want to participate!
In most traditional martial arts and sport fighting the mentality is most often one of sparring 'with' or fighting 'with' someone else. In self defense combatives the mentality is doing 'to' your opponent, or rather, 'attaker', just as they are trying to do something 'to' you. The goal for you is to gain control of the other person and the situation and then to turn the tables on the attacker causing a 'predator-prey switch', whereby there is a psychological role-reversal to who in that struggle is perceived as the 'prey' and who is the 'predator', giving you, the innocent victim, the upper hand, as it is a severe psychological blow to the perpetrator and goes against everything that they had anticipated as the 'desirable' outcome.
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