| Military Self Defense 3 Basic Problems | | | | Focusing on the weapon usually a gun, knife, or |
| 1: Focused on strength and speed. Still has a | | | | stick, but not on ending the threat. What? Wait, |
| competitive training attitude | | | | the gun, knife, or stick are not the threat? The |
| 2: Trained weapon control more than ending the | | | | person is the threat. You can take the weapon a |
| attack | | | | way from them, and still get killed. Yet if you end |
| 3: Rules instilled due to current media | | | | the threat, it is over. |
| **First problem, | | | | Again the military loves weapons and for good |
| Being focused on strength and speed are not bad | | | | reason. Weapons work in ending the attack. Still |
| things, but it assumes that you will better than | | | | the whole point is to end the attack and not to |
| your attacker. Hey, this might be the case most | | | | get the weapon. Semantics? No way, imagine you |
| of the time in the gym, but after a long day at | | | | are fighting an attack and a gun goes flying to the |
| work? What if there is more than one of them. I | | | | floor. You dive for it and barely get it. What you |
| am not stronger than two guys. | | | | did not see is the attacker smashing your skull in |
| Military self defense training as hand to hand | | | | with their boot while you go for the gun. A little |
| combat is the last resort. They mostly with | | | | graphic, but very real. Please understand what the |
| weapons because that is the most effective way | | | | threat is here. |
| to attack. So when a soldier is left unarmed | | | | **Third problem |
| against a armed attacker, it is usually really bad. | | | | Rules instilled due to current media. That could |
| They are tired or hurt. Probably the situation you | | | | mean the rules in sports like mixed martial arts or |
| will be when attack on the street. | | | | the way media views the military. We have gone |
| Criminals go after everyone, but especially the | | | | over mixed martial arts a lot, but not on how the |
| weak. | | | | media sees the military self defense. Honestly this |
| So you would think that military self defense | | | | is my take on it, but from the vets I have talked |
| would create a system with these things in mind | | | | to, this is a huge problem. |
| and they did, back in World War Two. These | | | | The media loves a story and they will tear apart |
| systems cut down on training time, but then what | | | | anyone to get it. The military is trained in lethal |
| are they going to do? Soldiers wanted to train | | | | moves and combat. So if they kill to defend |
| more in hope to be more effective, and ventured | | | | themselves, but that is not acceptable here. The |
| out into other combat martial arts. Some found | | | | media knows this and plays a killer soldier story to |
| mixed martial arts and liked how you could | | | | death. |
| compete all day/everyday and not injury your | | | | Understand that the media does help keep us all in |
| training partner. | | | | check, but I believe that it can be abused. Military |
| Please understand that I am not saying that | | | | training knows this and tries to create ways to |
| mixed martial arts are weakening military | | | | help their soldiers, but combat is combat. We are |
| unarmed self defense. No way, but the way of | | | | fighting for our lives here. So holding back in fear |
| training is. You see it is a know fact that you do | | | | that it might get online or in the news is a real |
| as you train. Mixed martial arts is a sports and | | | | thing for many people not just the military. |
| self defense is not. There are similarities, but you | | | | So now what can be done? |
| can not just flip a switch during combat and hope | | | | I do not claim all the answers. I know something |
| that you do the right thing. | | | | has to be done. I suggest you talk to your |
| Train in a way that does NOT promote physical | | | | instructor (military self defense or not) about |
| attributes or sports competition. | | | | these issues and seek more help. |
| **Second problem | | | | |