Self defense training

[Tomas]

There are a lot of systems to choose from in the world of martial arts. Many of them claim to be good for self-defense purposes but it is just a few that actually are useful. Your system should contain defense against armed attacks, multiple assailants training, stress training, and include verbal de-escalation, proper mindset, sparring, contact training and it should contain few but good techniques.

Krav Maga: A hardcore military system from Israel. It contains a lot of the above attributes. It’s major advantage is the weapon use (replicas) in early stages of the training and that the proper mental mindset is trained from the beginning. The biggest drawback is that it is a bit technique focused at times but scenario training occurs.

Reality based self defense (RBSD): Much but not all of the training is scenario based. Your goal is to solve a mission under the most dangerous of all possible situations.

Sport based systems: Like boxing, Brazilian jiujitsu, shootfighting, judo and thaiboxing. Sport based systems gives you the advantage of being really good fighting unarmed against a single opponent.

[ccarley]

I agree, there are a lot of styles to choose from. I happened to choose RBSD because I want to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. I searched around for a school that I felt would help me to achieve the goals that I wished to accomplish and I really lucked out by finding a system that works for me. Be careful when choosing a school, regardless of what style it is,for as many good schools out there, there are a number of questionable ones as well.

[lorenzodamarith]

as many good schools out there, there are a number of questionable ones as well.

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er... what was the question?

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agreed. shop around and compare. no sense spending a lot of money, effort and time on a place that isn't worth it.

thanks.

[Thai Bri]

There are a lot of systems to choose from in the world of martial arts. Many of them claim to be good for self-defense purposes but it is just a few that actually are useful. Your system should contain defense against armed attacks, multiple assailants training, stress training, and include verbal de-escalation, proper mindset, sparring, contact training and it should contain few but good techniques.

Krav Maga: A hardcore military system from Israel. It contains a lot of the above attributes. It’s major advantage is the weapon use (replicas) in early stages of the training and that the proper mental mindset is trained from the beginning. The biggest drawback is that it is a bit technique focused at times but scenario training occurs.

Reality based self defense (RBSD): Much but not all of the training is scenario based. Your goal is to solve a mission under the most dangerous of all possible situations.

Sport based systems: Like boxing, Brazilian jiujitsu, shootfighting, judo and thaiboxing. Sport based systems gives you the advantage of being really good fighting unarmed against a single opponent.

Krav Maga is merely one of a number of systems claiming to be reality based. It is not an entire genre in it's own right.

Your post is like saying "there are variety of shapes:-

Squares

Those with straight lines.

Those with curverd lines and

Those with a mixture of the two.

Guess what? Squares are just part of the "those with straight lines" category.

[Garland]

Your post is like saying "there are variety of shapes:-

Squares

Those with straight lines.

Those with curverd lines and

Those with a mixture of the two.

Guess what? Squares are just part of the "those with straight lines" category.

...can you help me with my geometry homework mr. bri?

[Thai Bri]

I would do, but I'm too much of a square.

[shaolin-warrior]

Don't underestimate or negate kempo. It's fast and effective and reality based. Good kempo schools are hard to find but if can find one, check it out.