Street guys. Please give direct technical answers.

[Kung Fu Wang]

So therefore no martial arts prepares you for self defence. Because they all have limited variables and a street fight has unlimited variables.

- Standing in a small circle and dodge opponent's tennis ball throwing,
- Jumping off from roof top,
- Kicking a stick on the ground into opponent's hand,

were part of my high school MA training. Today, people don't train these any more.

 

[drop bear]

- Standing in a small circle and dodge opponent's tennis ball throwing,
- Jumping off from roof top,
- Kicking a stick on the ground into opponent's hand,

were part of my high school MA training. Today, people don't train these any more.

Yeah. But I now have an infinite pool of street fighting variables to draw from.

At some point you will run out of applicable training drills.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

I do think there's a limit to how much we can anticipate and prepare for when we're talking about combat. I mean, do you consider the possibility that your opponent outside the golden lion on a Friday night might be equipped with flame artillery?

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

So therefore no martial arts prepares you for self defence. Because they all have limited variables and a street fight has unlimited variables.

I didn’t say that. Anything is better than nothing, but there is no way to know what type of situations can unfold in public. Let’s be clear, some streets are far and away more dangerous than others. If you haven’t spent time there, you may not even recognize certain dangers for what they are. Your chances of being robbed at gun point are far lower in Australia than in Southern California, New York, Chicago, Baltimore, etc etc. Being prepared for that has more to do with understanding cultural cues than martial arts. You may fancy yourself the toughest martial artist in the place, but it won’t matter a lick when some 14 year old is pointing a pistol at you. That situation just won’t happen in a ring, and it’s not comparable in my mind, having personally been in both situations multiple times. Have you been shot at? Robbed and beaten by multiple people at the same time? Robbed while being attacked by dogs? It may change your perspective about how prepared you imagine you are.