| ntinued from "Why MMA is NOT Street Self | | | | a physical answer is called for then the physical |
| Defense! Part 1" | | | | answer needs to be a response that will match |
| If someone steals your car (or any other | | | | the lethal nature of the situation and where safely |
| personal possession) and they start driving it | | | | exiting / leaving / getting away (ideally before |
| away right in front of you what is your best | | | | force is needed) is always on the top of the list |
| response. For a ring trained fighter the answer all | | | | of priorities. Real street self defense is not as |
| to often has been to chase the criminal down. | | | | glamorous or exciting as the UFC and other |
| This has resulted in well known, respected and | | | | sporting type events and I for one am glad they |
| loved people being shot down by a criminal who | | | | are not. Rape, murder, kidnapping etc are awful |
| was playing by street rules instead of sport rules. | | | | nasty and terrible (usually life changing) events for |
| If someone commits road rage against you and | | | | anyone and should not be acceptable under any |
| after some sign language tries to get you to pull | | | | circumstances. In real street oriented martial arts |
| over and fight do you stop the car and jump out | | | | the training is geared around real street scenarios |
| to go fight? There are famous ring fighters who | | | | where avoiding and exiting at the first real |
| have and even wrote about it like teaching the | | | | opportunity is a critical and required part of the |
| other person a lesson is the thing to do. This is all | | | | practice. In MMA and Jiu-jitsu sports training the |
| well and good if everyone is playing by ring rules. | | | | critical part of practice is to work within a set of |
| There are MMA fighters who have been shot to | | | | rules to pin or knockout the other person who is |
| death when they thought they were about to | | | | empty handed and fighting by themselves and |
| engage in a lesson teaching street fight of this | | | | whose only defense is that they have been |
| nature. In street/bar fights there are MMA and | | | | training MMA, boxing and Jiu-jitsu so that they can |
| Jiu-jitsu stylists who have been stomped, gutted | | | | have a match with / against another competitor. |
| and shot because they made the mistake of | | | | In real street attacks physical responses are |
| confusing ring rules and sports with real street | | | | mostly going to involve techniques that are brutal |
| situations. Sports and street are not the same | | | | and illegal even in extreme sports competitions. |
| thing. | | | | The goal is to hurt them and get away. Some |
| Street attacks involve brutal realities and call for | | | | people call this an improper or inhumane response. |
| intelligent responses starting with proper | | | | I disagree. The criminal attacker is the one who |
| awareness, avoidance and deterrence skills and if | | | | committed the heinous act and is improper and |
| all of this is appropriately applied in a situation and | | | | inhumane and deserves anything they get. |