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Hurdoc
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Hello all!
I'm usually not this indecisive but I'm perplexed at the moment. I've asked around from some other people but I thought I would pose this question to the forum at large... is Kempo (American) for me?
I'm interested in a self-defense art primarily, but I attended a few classes of Kempo... is every response to an attack a relatively crippling one? I'm familiar with Aikido to some extent and crossed that off my list as too "soft" for me. On the other hand, if confronted with someone whom I don't want to seriously injure, does Kempo allow for a soft approach. In other words, locking/grappling/submission techniques similar to jiu jitsu or aikido?
I'm eager to start learning something, just don't want to spend months doing something before realizing it doesn't fit my moral values or lifestyle... I'm already 32, need to get cracking
I'm usually not this indecisive but I'm perplexed at the moment. I've asked around from some other people but I thought I would pose this question to the forum at large... is Kempo (American) for me?
I'm interested in a self-defense art primarily, but I attended a few classes of Kempo... is every response to an attack a relatively crippling one? I'm familiar with Aikido to some extent and crossed that off my list as too "soft" for me. On the other hand, if confronted with someone whom I don't want to seriously injure, does Kempo allow for a soft approach. In other words, locking/grappling/submission techniques similar to jiu jitsu or aikido?
I'm eager to start learning something, just don't want to spend months doing something before realizing it doesn't fit my moral values or lifestyle... I'm already 32, need to get cracking