Where ever you come from in the world, if you have had the unfortunate pleasure to be involved in a street fight or have even seen a street fight you shall have noticed that they can be quit intimidating. Before sparring in a martial arts school, there is either a hand shake, a bow or some other gesture to show that the sparring is to be kept respectful. This should also happen after the sparring is over. Unfortunately in the street though, it never happens like this.
Normally there is swearing, pushing, intimidating looks, spitting, throwing things at each other etc. It can be very different to how you train in the dojo. This is the reality of street fights however and it should be something practised within your training regime. By having someone shout at you “im going to f*&$%”g kick your face apart” while pushing you with full force (or something along those lines) before a physical confrontation can be quit daunting. It can raise your adrenaline, shock you and sometimes make you freeze up. Defending yourself effectively when in this state of mind can be difficult to say the least. Training in the gym/dojo, we prepare ourselves to be able to defend ourselves if involved in a street fight of some kind, and yet it is very rare to see this kind of preparation. Im not saying that from now on, before you start sparring, swear and taunt at each other to feel the fear factor of a real fight, but understand that you cant just expect to be able to deal with it effectively, if faced with it in the street and that some preparation by acting out these conditions is necessary. Im sure that there shall be some who disagree with this and that this type of training should be prohibited from the dojo, but it happens on the street so it should be something that we should keep in mind.
Marks
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Reality of Street Fights
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2 comments:
I Agree with this, I just got into a confrontation not to long ago for no real reason at all, I thought my year and a half of Kempo Karate and Japanese Ju Jutsu would give me the reflexes to block a couple punches to my mouth but it did not happen I did not get badly injured because I was in shock, so I stayed on my feet, but I think I need a lot more training with my stand up. Besides it all started with just playing around and then the opponent got serious and I was not sure maybe that could be another reason.
Good point. Like you say, that type of more realistic training doesn't have to be all the time. Just every now and then to keep people aware of the differences between the gym and the street.
I really worry about students where the instructor is of the opinion that swearing and yelling in a dojo or dojang or whatever is uncouth and is not the place for such carryings on. These people claim to be teaching a form of self defense yet are clearly choosing to ignore it and are giving their students a false sense of security and understanding of real world violence.
just a little rant. good post.
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