In regards to Self Defence, their are many people who will teach self defence. In the real world, unfortunately a lot of these system would not work. A lot of people try and complicate moves by adding to much thought into techniques that are only practiced in friendly class environment.

There for their can be NO SET TECHNIQUE because everyone is different. Besides when attacked a lot of the techniques are too complicated to perform under street pressure, especially when your adrenalin kicks in, unless you train for it.

When I am teaching karate (Ryoku-Kara-Kuntou (R-K-K) Karate Do ) I not only teach the basics on strikes, punches kicks etc. I also teach them a little about self defence and implement it during class. Karateka (students) could be doing one thing and with out warning I might simulate an attack. They then have to think quick and deal with it.

If you are looking for a Martial Arts Style for self defence reasons you should looking for a style that not only teaches self defence but also use it in your everyday training.

For more information please feel free to contact me – daniel@rkk.co.nz. I will be happy to give you more advice etc.

Dan
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martial arts is a sub category or skill necessary for "self-defence".

if your goal really is self-defence then awareness should be your #1 goal. learn signals and how to be alert and keep a mental note of people and thier location.

fighting is next, but if self-defence is your goal, then a knife or a gun is actually your best option.

you seem to be ignorant about what martial arts are so I’ll tell you. Martial Arts comes from the term "the arts of mars" (translated from latin), Mars, the god of war. thus martial arts are tactics and techniques used in war or fighing.

yes, technically this includes nukes. However people generally don’t mean WMD when they use the term. They do include firearms and weapons however.

you are correct though in that some form of hand to hand is necessary as well as if you are caught off guard (which in any true self-defence situation you would be) you need to know how to regain or gain the advantage to pull a weapon and thus scare off or disable your attacker.

learning about weapons that you would be "defending" against also gives you a knowlede of how they work and what is a "danger zone" for them.

also balancing what the attacker’s intent is vs. the danger posed to you and that you are in is part of self-defence and awareness. would you risk bieng shot for $20?

I doubt it.

while learning to fight is part of self-defence, it is a last resort. Not because of some imagined "code" that people use to make themselves feel better about learning to hurt someone, but because of the inherent risk involved if you are in a real "self-defence" situation and because it is stupid to fight (outside of sparring, comps, training, etc.) because of the legal risk posed to you if you do so unecessarily.

I would first suggest you study knife for the fighting portion and some other art that will deal with locks and such like chin na, bjj, jujitsu, etc. however it is infinately more important that you find a good teacher rather than go "style shopping". better to learn a style that isn’t exactly what you are looking for from a good teacher than learn something you like from a crappy teacher/school. Make sure they train realistically using progressive resistance leading up to fully resisting opponents and the teacher is honest with you about the limitations of the style.

and try to just train yourself to be more aware of your surroundings and observant if you are not already. In short, build up your street smarts.
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