| The topic of how effective traditional | | | | There are no rules in the streets your mind |
| martial arts is in today's world as a way of | | | | should not have to sensor or think can I do |
| protecting oneself is still a very sensitive | | | | this to beat this person? We respond exactly |
| issue to a lot of martial artists. What is | | | | the same way that we train. |
| even more sensitive is the issue of how | | | | |
| realistic and street effective is the newer | | | | There is no time to switch gears from sport |
| styles that have come out since UFC/PRIDE | | | | to tactical. If you are training and your |
| have come into the picture. I am a Registered | | | | coach or sensei says can't hit their or no |
| Black Belt & have nothing against the martial | | | | contact to the eyes your mind will remember |
| arts and have also studied styles such as | | | | that and store it for future reference. Your |
| Pankration. I know that the techniques I have | | | | self defense system should take into account |
| learned in the dojo should stay in the dojo | | | | your environment as well. Can you kick your |
| because they will only work there, that also | | | | attacker in the small space your in? Can you |
| goes with styles such as the "modern day or | | | | balance yourself while performing a technique |
| reality based systems" they are for sport | | | | on the icy sidewalk? If you grapple with him |
| only. | | | | what if he has friends coming around, what do |
| | | | you do then? Street fighting or tactical |
| I work as a bouncer/bodyguard & also teach | | | | self-defense should be in the simplest form |
| tactical self defense. Many of my students | | | | of fighting. You don't have time to play a |
| are black belts or have trained under reality | | | | chess game, like you would see in a UFC |
| based systems & have learned the hard way | | | | match. Time is not on your side in a street |
| that what they learned in the ring or dojo is | | | | confrontation nor are rules or morals. What |
| not street effective. Their common question | | | | we can learn from the UFC or mixed martial |
| is why didn't their system work? Part of the | | | | arts events when it comes to reality fighting |
| reason is that if a rule or law is applied to | | | | is if it has rules of what not to do, do |
| a system it will subconsciously hinder you | | | | those things in a street fight because its |
| when your adrenaline takes over in combat. | | | | got to be effective. |