Games and Sports

Sport martial arts are a lot of fun and matches can be thrilling and competitive. They teach us a lot about character and discipline, but they don’t necessarily teach you how to fight. While they give you a good idea of what it is like to grapple with another person or strike an opponent they don’t teach you about real self defense. In a real life situation where you would use self defense things are much bloodier and nastiest, and that is because it has to be that way. When life and death is on the line there is no such thing as “fighting dirty.”

Not long ago a training buddy shared some pictures taken in an emergency room by a police officer of an assault victim. It seemed someone decided that they should take it on themselves to tell someone to leave a bar rather than let security handle the situation. Well he lived to regret it, but not before the other guy who turned out to be an ex-con and an ex-boxer proceeded to cave in the side of his face damaging his eye socket. The moral of the story is that you don’t know who you’re dealing with out on the street, so you must assume the worst.

You must always assume an attacker is stronger than you and that they have a weapon handy. Also you don’t know if they have friends nearby that could jump in at any time, and you don’t know what their intentions are when the violence starts. They might just want to knock you down and will laugh and walk away, but they might knock you down and begin pounding your head into the pavement. Only a small percentage of the population is actually capable of committing murder,

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