Are you really learning to defend yourself?

[broomhilda000]

I have an article here, http://www.judoinfo.com/sport.htm and this says the difference between learning self defense and sport martial arts. Some things it states are that self defense martial arts are sometimes impractical because they are practised with a willing opponent who does not fight back because the techniques are to dangerous, but then is that training really helping you? I mean i've seen this done before at speeds that seem like slow motion. And then there is sport a sport martial art you can train to improve reflexes because if you don't you get throe tripped or whatever. So in sport martial arts you are learning to defend yourself in the speed a real fight would occur at so you are learning and not just acting. I'd just like your OPINIONS on this subject,

 

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[granmasterchen]

i agree with the speed and reflexes, sports martial arts help you in those aspects, they also help your brain to process strategies faster so that you can see openings and find your target, sports based arts have their place, yet the fact that when you spar you don't go full force and neither you or your opponent are out for blood, so it is good to have and practical if combined with a more realistic self defense art, that way you have the skill, speed, then power and experience to back it all up together in a real situation, Sport based has some good qualities that many just over look because, you usually get beat if you don;'t train for real fights, so what i am saying is that there are some good points to it but is still not too healthy for a street fight

[kajukenbo dad]

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[granmasterchen]

kaju kenbo is a nice new style that is very effective streetwise, yet anytime that you spend working for tournements in point sparring will take some of the edge off of the street fight scenario, it is fun to do both, and kaju kenbo has a great combination of styles, very good. So don't always spar point based, add in that edge of violence.

[Kirves]

I mean i've seen this done before at speeds that seem like slow motion.[/b]

 

Slow motion training has it's place. If it is the only thing you do, then you're in trouble. But many arts start with a "relaxed" speed and speed up the techniques eventually. This is done both in a single session, and in the long run as well. If you try to go fast from the beginning, you will tense up and the technique will suffer. Some people use another kind of trick. They don't slow it down, but they teach you only after breaking you physically. After some 500 push-ups, squats and ab-crunches done in a very sweaty circuit format, you are too tired to tense up when you practice techniques.

[SBN Doug]

Also, in arts like Kuk Sool Won and Hapkido, if you go full speed from the beginning, you'll break something on your partner. They haven't learned to fall properly yet, to minimize injury from a full speed technique.