In my opinion alot of martial arts out there do not cover proper techniques for people who are weaker or hadicapped.
Okay, to start with, going through your profile on Youtube, it says that you are 21 years old. So the obvious question is how do you have the experience to make such sweeping claims? Especially as your entire list of arts studied are sporting systems, therefore only a small part of what martial arts can offer.
Bear in mind that arts such as Aikido, Wing Chun, Ba Gua, and many many more are designed with exactly what you are describing as a main impetus, so to claim that "a lot of martial arts out there do not cover proper techniques..." is going to be taken as rather presumtious and ignorant at best, and downright rude and arrogant at worst. There are members here from a wide variety of backgrounds, so please try to remember that.
That is stupid, because they are the people who are attacked the most. I have been working on a martial art for about twelve years for people who don't have alot of strength, or are even stuck in a wheel chair.
Refering to other people's arts as "stupid" is exactly what I was refering to above. Careful with language like that. Oh, and you have been working on this for 12 years? That would mean that you were 9 when you started putting it together, right? At that point, I would suggest that you were not so much putting together your system, as you were just starting to train in one of your arts, yes? Probably Tae Kwon Do?
As well as that, the question has been asked on another thread as to your teaching qualifications. I would add to that the question of how much experience you have teaching or training people with handicaps or disabilities? Just imagining what you (as a healthy person) could do in a chair is not the same as someone who is confined to a wheelchair. One of my fellow Instructors had a student at one time who suffered from cerebral palsy, was confined to a wheelchair, and had very limited use of his arms and evasive movement of his body and head. That was a challenge.
I think that self defence should keep people from being rapped and killed. If you can't effectively stop an attacker in a few seconds. Then you have a very low chance of living threw a life or death situation.
Well, yes, self defence should help people live their lives free from attack and assault, but frankly this is a very limited and macho-centric view of self defence. It is not just about being violent and fighting. It is far more about having the awareness to be able to avoid such situations in the first place. Of course, should the situation be unavoidable, having the technical skills to defend yourself is vital, but the technical side of things is actually the least important aspect. However, this is quite common for the younger, less experienced (and, I must say, male) martial artists.
Something that alot of people don't tell you. Is that if you are every attacked while walking on the street its almost always more then one person attacking you.
Okay, a couple of things here. For one thing, you are guessing what goes on in martial art classes here. As said, your entire background is based on sport systems, which will focus on singular one-on-one competition, so the idea of group assaults are less emphasised, so in those arts you may be correct. But to say that a lot of people don't tell you that most assaults these days are groups or gang attacks is to completely miss how these arts are taught. In my classes, in every RBSD class I have attended, in every martial art magazine, the concept of group assaults is very prevalent, so I don't really get where you are coming from here.
But something else has been bugging me. In another thread you said that you are a "published author" on ezine.com. Yet your posts here are very lacking in basic sentence construction, spelling etc. You have a tendancy to use full stops and create new sentences mid-thought, rather than use a comma as would be required. Honestly just wondering how you are a published author unless it is a self-publish website? It just appears to be a bit of grandstanding, honestly.
For this reason it is important to know, How to quickly stop or kill an opponent.
No, it is important to know how to create enough distraction or violence to stop an attack long enough to safely get away. The idea of knowing how to kill an opponent is the product of a scared mind, and you will find that it is a very short-sighted policy to go through such ideas, as they will get you in legal trouble should it ever come to that. Again, this is just another indication of the maturity you are displaying, so you will find the responces you get will reflect that (as I'm sure you already have).
No one wants to kill I'm sure, in which case you have to take an enemies eyes or ear to save their life. I think these things should be taught to Handicapped people.
I would just say see above.
Even women who must walk to a job, or school, that stand a chance of being rapped or mugged. I don't have alot of videos posted, but the videos I have up can be used by a ninety pound woman to fight a two hundred pound man. My link is
http://www.youtube.com/user/BecomingTheWarrior1
I hope this will help anyone who is every attacked.
I appreciate what you are trying to do here, but I haven't seen anything here that is actually well geared to a smaller, weaker, or handicapped individual. And I must say that I am unsure as to why you have posted here in this particular forum (Women of the Martial Arts). The only things you have said relating to women here is basically scaremongering that they will be attacked, raped, killed walking on their way to work or school, and really, that is just not cool. Most women will not, but remember that many members here have come to the martial arts after a similar experience, so bringing it up must be done with respect, tact, and care, not in a way designed to scare them into believing what you are say.
Cody
