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Buyer beware.

from pps123.vodpod.com posted with vodpod

This funny Jim Carrey clip carries a very serious message…..beware the charlatan posing in a martial arts uniform.  Unfortunately self defense and martial arts are sometimes not the same. Effective self defense instruction is more to do with the teacher than the system. Those who are proficient in teaching self defense have spent a considerable time understanding the realities of violenceand as such may have modified their system or style to these realities. Many techniques within martial arts are applicable, when updated or modified, to deal with street violence but many more are not…..anyone who tries to sell you on their system but has not spent time understanding violence as it pertains to our modern world is not attuned to the realities of conflict.

If he teaches you techniques that do not appear realistic to you simply do not go back. To learn something unrealistic is worse than learning nothing as it may give you a false sense of  security which, when tested in a conflict, will fail you and may get you even more hurt.

All self defense systems should include elements of pre conflict, modified, gross motor based conflict, and post conflict. If they do not then buyers beware………

Stay Safe. Stay Alert.

P