Obviously, you people have never been in a fight before. And I’ve noticed that all these people who posts replies who are supposed experts in martial arts are probably the same people who would get the crap kicked out of them by a 10 year old.

Let’s face it, in the modern world, no one fights like a martial artist. Everyone’s first instinct in a fight is to charge at the person with arms flailing. I’m not gonna knock on WC either, I’m a student of martial arts, but I’m not going to try to impress you people and tell you everything I’ve studied, I’ll just say that I am a practitioner. But I am a person in the real world.

There is a difference why some schools teach ‘martial arts’ and some teach ’self-defense’. They may be the same thing, but the schools that teach self-defense teach you for that reason. Martial arts is a way of life, but that 6 foot redneck with liquor on his breath isn’t going to conform to your lifestyle, so sometimes you just need something to knock the punk out.

The best advice I could give to someone wanting to learn different techniques is to go to different schools. Schools I’ve been to taught kicks, punches, and the usual martial art. Some schools teach how to evade someone charging you and go straight for the knockout( elbow to the throat, or just grab a pipe!)

Regardless of what you study, DO NOT confuse one for the other! For instance, Wing Chun teaches you how to fight standing up, just like the last post said, don’t fall down is the call! Well, that’s okay in class. But not in a dark alley. But WC does teach you speed, blinding speed. And that can be very useful against someone who doesn’t expect a real fight out of you.

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