drop bear
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Yeah but there is a whole degree of testing done before you jump in the ring if you are being trained ethically.At some point you had to start learning techniques. At some point you had to learn techniques from an authority who knew from experience that it worked, before you had a chance to go into a ring and test them.
And there is a whole degree of testing that has been done by your instructor.
Your suggestion is that there are untested techniques that we take in to self defense.
So tkd guy does some competitions knocks some fools out. But decides that that isn't all for the streets.
So he does some grappling. Enters some competitions chokes some fools out.
Still not complete. Say he trains his awareness because you can't train that by competition. He doesn't know if that works or doesn't. So he has to take it pretty much on faith.