Martial Arts and Personal Defense
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By Elia Levi
Did you ever consider Martial Arts training as suitable for Personal Defense? In this case you should be ready for disappointment. It may not be your fault, though.
You may have been encouraged to think this way by incompetent or interested people who had something to gain in obtaining your subscription to such a training course.
Unfortunately the misconceptions surrounding this subject may be dangerous in promoting irresponsible behavior from those who were caught in the trap of thinking that prowess in Martial Art is a guarantee of success in self defense.
Training in Martial Arts consists in proper exercising to develop one s physical fitness and to promote self confidence. The concentration it demands and the coordination required between mind and body may produce quite positive personality improvements.
As it occurs in homogeneous groups of persons displaying the same interests, pursuing self improvement by following Martial Arts training provides a welcome occasion for socializing and for enjoying approval and recognition of progress as acknowledged by the company.
Such training represents a socially accepted way to employ favorably one s exuberance for self growth and accomplishment. It may even be suitable for children.
One should be careful however to keep Martial Arts, for all the good things they represent, quite separate from any thought of usefulness in the context of personal defense. By not implementing this difference one may provoke painful damages.
Any confusion between sporting training, subjected to rigid rules of conduct from one side, and survival behavior instructions, meant to control violent confrontations with the purpose of coming out unscathed from the other, can only harm the grasp of the reality and the implementation of logical and consistent reactions.
Dangers are twofold. Unwary people may feel unjustified confidence in their Martial Art competence to let themselves be involved in dangerous confrontations instead of working towards avoiding them.
Or they may be carried away by their own conceit and ignorance to inflict unwarranted harm to their opponent, without a thought about the consequences.
Both forms of behavior are unsafe. A serious person should be aware of one s responsibility and should refrain from entertaining false expectations likely to cause damage and misery to oneself or to others.
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