Street Fighter Moves - 3 Categories of Martial Arts - Why You Must Know the Difference (Part 3 of 3)

Reality-Based Self Defense, also know as Reality-Based Fighting or RBF has a certain irony surrounding it. Most people do not have a clear distinction of it as one of 3 major categories of fighting, yet most people when they enroll in a martial arts class or strip mall dojo (as I fondly call a McDojo) believe that they will learn Reality-Based Street Fighting.

The same goes for those, who are duly impressed after watching a MMA fighting match with all of the intense "grounding and pounding" with emphasis on locks, throws and grappling, also go out and sign up with a school emphasizing MMA techniques - believing - that they too are about to learn things that are extremely applicable in the streets.

Traditional Martial Arts and Mixed Martial Arts, even put together, do not equate Reality-Based Self Defense. Sorry. I know this breaks the hearts of some of you, but it is a fact. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Some Reality-Based Fighting Principles CAN Find Their Way Into Traditional Martial Arts Systems

Let me say that some reality-based fighting principles can find their way into the curriculum of some traditional martial arts schools. For example, I have seen eye gouges demonstrated in some Kung Fu schools, and this is fine. But the problem is that over time, perfectly good, simple and easy-to-learn street fighting techniques like this one get lost in a plethora of countless other competing techniques taught, some effective, and some not so effective, that soon distract the student from knowing which one to choose and what really works best in most common situations.

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Does Not Emphasize "Street Smarts" - Because It Is A Sport!

I do not want to imply by any stretch of the imagination that a MMA guy is someone you should go around picking a fight with or that he is a pushover. This kind of thinking can get you a good "a...-whipping". But let's face it, a great deal of MMA guys are grapplers. What in the hell are you doing grappling on the ground in the streets! This is insane! The ground is NOT your friend!

On the ground, you lose peripheral vision, and you can't see if and when your opponent has buddies coming to the left or right of you ready to stomp your head into the ground - until you are dead. And falling onto the hard and unforgiving asphalt concrete with a 200 lb guy on top of you is not the same as falling on a soft padded mat with the watchful eye of the referee ready to let you "tap out" when things get too tough.

A "sports mindset" is not the best preparation for a life and death struggle for survival. Let MMA for the octagon, and just watch it on TV.

What Characterizes Reality-Based Self Defense

o It Doesn't Take A Long Time To Master - Where studying a martial art (as it should) may take you years and years to master and to a lesser degree so does sports and competitive fighting, Reality-Based Self Defense can take as little as 1 or 2 days of intensive scenario-based training where you are placed in simulated environments with your instructor. You would find yourself in a mock-alley ways, close-quarter rooms with plenty of furniture, or you may go outside to train on the streets - on the gravel, on leaves, on grass, on concrete or on snow.

o You Train For How And Where You Will Have To Fight - The idea is to go out of the usual temperature-controlled dojos and out into to realistic modern-day fighting environments. You train in your everyday clothes and in your shoes. You practice countering surprise attacks administered and directed by your instructor whose purpose is to induce within you the adrenaline rush that you will experience in a real street confrontation - and thus be comfortable with it.

One emotionally-charged weekend of good fight response experience with a good RBF instructor can change you so positively that your self-confidence and ability to respond will shoot through the roof, and this confidence will stay with you for the rest of your life.

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Self-Defense Reality - A Reason to Study Reality-Based Martial Arts & Self-Protection

Imagine, if you will...

A woman walking across a dark parking lot late at night. The lot, apparently occupied only by the vehicles parked there and the occasional cat hunting for an evening snack.

Then, as if from out of nowhere, she feels the hard, meaty arm slam into her throat from the front. While her mind races to determine exactly what's happening, she becomes more and more aware that she is not in control - her world has just changed forever.

The woman feels her muscles contract and, though she tries to move, is aware that much of her own body won't respond to her brain's commands. As the adrenaline and other chemicals flood her blood stream in natural response to danger, she is overcome by a multitude of feelings and sensations that she has, quite literally, never experienced before.

As the initial shock response and wave of panic begins to ebb, she finds herself becoming aware of the sensation of her assailant's body behind her and the fact that his arm is coming from over her right shoulder. She can now hear his hot, rasping breath in her ear and perhaps the fact that he is saying something to her; though she's not quite sure what it is.

Since she's taken a few self-defense classes, she remembers learning how to get out of this type of attack and reaches up to grab and pull his arm away from her neck. What she finds though, is that she cannot even begin to budge it in the least.

"Wait a minute," she thinks in a moment of clarity, "this isn't right."

"This isn't right!"

"It always worked in class." "This guy's holding me too tight!" "No one ever holds THIS TIGHT!"

She feels the next wave of panic start to grip her. Not because she is being attacked but...

...because she realizes that her defense doesn't work.

"Why?" "What's going on?!"

"It's supposed to work!" "He said it would wo...."

As the darkness of unconsciousness overtakes her, she is left with the feeling of a warm blanket that is being pulled over someone who will sleep for a long while.

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The preceding story, believe it or not, happens several times every single day in our country and around the world. To be certain, the details are different. Perhaps the victim...

...is a man - not a woman...

...never actually trained with anyone and just had their own assumptions...

...was attacked differently, but...

...the results are always the same.

Or, are they?

Jeffrey M. Miller is the founder and master instructor of Warrior Concepts International. A senior teacher in the Japanese warrior art of Ninjutsu, he specializes in teaching the ancient ways of self-protection and personal development lessons in a way that is easily understood and put to use by modern Western students and corporate clients. Through their martial arts training, his students and clients learn proven, time-tested lessons designed to help them create the life they've always dreamed of living, and the skills necessary for protecting that life from anything that might threaten it. To learn more about his latest book The Karate-Myth and other related subjects, visit his website at http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com To subscribe to his online newsletter, go to http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/newsletter-subscribe-self-defense.html.

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Dojo Training vs. Real Fighting for Self-Defense - A Martial Arts Lesson From Abraham Lincoln

There seems to be two schools of thought when it comes to martial arts training. The first, we'll call them the "safety-first" schools, adheres to the philosophy of no-contact or light contact and never doing anything that might cause injury to a student.

This school usually focuses on solo training with little to no actual contact between students without the use of padded, safety gear.

The second school, we'll call them the "tough-guy" schools, believes that you have to do everything for real if you're going to be any good.

This school tends to avoid solo training and kata "forms" for a more no-holds-barred, freestyle approach to combat training.

Each sees the other as wrong. Unfortunately, just as with all extremists, each misses the possibility of a third, or middle approach to training.

The Warrior Concepts Black Belt Mastery programs are designed to take this middle path, aiming for a safe approach to the training while focusing on the important key elements that will be present and crucial to surviving a brutal attack. If you've read my other articles and blog posts, or if you've attended my live classes and training events, you already know what I'm talking about.

In this article, I want to focus on one of these views - the "tough-guy syndrome" - and talk about the misconceptions present that, contrary to their intent, lead these students astray from their ultimate goal.

Now, before I begin, let me say that there are those people out there who are just plain tough. They can take as much as they dish out and have an almost superhuman ability to withstand pain and punishment. But...

...these people will be so with or without fight training.

As I've discussed in other articles, there is a vast difference between a warrior and someone who fights for pleasure or reward. Where the warrior seeks to be able to defend self and others only when necessary - and with the least amount of wear and tear on him or her self - the fighter will very often put themselves in more danger just to show that they are the toughest guy there.

Here are several truths about the nature of training and combat that I have discovered from over thirty years of not only martial arts training, but from actually having to survive in real-world self-defense situations.

1. Dojo training (practice) is NEVER the same as the real thing. No matter how much you try to make it so. Unless you're actually cracking ribs, breaking legs, gouging eyes, and dislocating joints during training, you're still "pulling" and therefor NOT in combat mode.


2. Related to number one above... You don't do to your friends what you do to an enemy who's trying to maim or kill you. Again, slow training which takes into account things like adrenal response, attacker-logic and good combat strategy is better than acting strong and going fast so you can feel tough.

Science has already proven that, in suvival mode when under the influence of adrenaline, epinephrine, and several other chemicals dumped into the blood stream by the hypothalemus and triggered by the amigdala, you will already go as fast, and be as strong, as you can be. In other words, you don't have to train fast to BE fast in a combat situation.

In fact, it's far more important to practice drills and exercises that develop your ability to think quickly and calmly under pressure than to worry about how fast you're going. This is an important lesson for the tough guys who think they're training for real.

And finally...

3. Just because you make the training "feel" real - doesn't make it so.

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, used to ask people what appeared to be a simple question that illustrates this point perfectly. He used to ask a person...

"How many legs does a dog have?" (Feel free to answer the question for yourself)

Of course, the answered would invariably be, "four."

"Correct," he would reply. Then he would go on to say, "let's pretend that the dog's tail is actually a leg, now how many legs does the dog have?"

How about it? Simple question. Simple answer, right?

Well. If your initial thought was to answer with, "five"... I'm sorry to say...

...you'd be wrong!

Just because we "pretend" - just because we play a little mental game - and "say" that the dog's tail is a leg, doesn't make it one. The dog still only has four legs.

And, just because you make your martial arts training "feel" real, doesn't make it so.

Don't believe me?

That's okay. You can believe whatever you want. But...

...before you begin spouting that I don't know what I'm talking about, do yourself a huge favor and ask anyone else with the same real-world combat experience that I do, how similar actual combat is to their training drills.

If they weren't confidential, I'd be happy to direct you to all of the military and law enforcement guys on my list who routinely find themselves in the "line of fire." Then they could tell you the same things they share with me when they comment on these articles. They could tell you I'm right.

But, this isn't about me being right. This is about you figuring out what you need to get proficient with this area of your life as quickly as possible.

Like I said before, you are always free to choose what you think and do. That's the great thing about having free will.

Just don't confuse free will and what you've chosen to do, with what's going on and what will work in the real world.

Jeffrey M. Miller is the founder and director of Warrior Concepts International, an expert in the realms of real world self-protection tactics, and a master teacher in the art of Ninjutsu - the art of the Ninja. He is highly saught after for his direct, often politically-incorrect approach to helping people get what they need. Through his classes, seminars, book and video products, and corporate training events, he empowers individuals with the time-tested and proven concepts, principles, and closely guarded secrets of the warrior in a way that makes them highly effective in Today's world. Get more information about reality-based self-defense and other related topics by subscribing to his newsletter at http://www.warrior-concepts-online.com/newsletter.html

Martial Arts Or Real Self Defense? A Big Fight on the Horizon

People either don't realize the difference between Martial Arts and Real Self Defense or the don't want to admit that someone can be right about this topic.

Though in movies it may seem to look all the same, there is a quite big difference between these ways of fighting.

According to some sources, there should be three basic categories. Traditional-Cultural Arts, Sport Martial Arts and Real Self Defense.

To think that one is better than other would be wrong. Each has it's own added value for the one practising it and it should be in general knowledge of people to know what the hell they are training in reality.

Traditional-Cultural Martial Arts

As the title says, Cultural Arts are connected with each different nation and it's culture. Like Karate for Japan-Okinawa. That is a way of fighting that was developed not only as a fighting art, but also as a lifestyle. People did not train Karate, but they lived Karate.

It went through a lot of different changes and is literally deformed in many diverse types of martial art. Experts say "If you want to train real Karate, you have to go to Okinawa." And the same goes for other Cultural Martial Arts.

Some people say that in later ages people trained these martial arts and used it for regular field fighting. But that was long time ago. Far from now. And as mentioned before, people not just trained it but also took the martial art as a style of life.

Sport Martial Arts

In this category should belong all the martial arts you can see on TV. Kick Box, Box, Olympic Judo, Olympic Karate and so on. These are the ones based on dueling others. That means that real fights are occurring in it!s repertoire. What makes them different from the last category is that there are people and rules putting the hole thing under some kind of control.

You can see judges taking care of fair play of the fight. There is some kind of prepared fighting environment like a ring or tatami or alike. Rules that competing fighters must obey. You won't find anything like that on the street.

That is why we have the last category.

The Real Self Defense Systems

Here belongs all the nasty, fatal and super effective technique systems of field fight. Krav Maga, Musado, Savate and others. Nothing is forgiven, no nice looking techniques. Everything is aimed on the real fight itself. Techniques made for real life kill or be killed fights on the street or other places where the fighting is not bound to any rules.

Considered the most effective ones, used and modified by many international and national special forces.

Some people disagree with recognising these three types of way of fight specifications.. fighting against the idea that martial arts are not considered effective in a real - fight for your life - situations. Martial arts and self defense experts yet agree with this fragmentation and people who want to learn how to fight properly should result from it.

I hope you understand a little bit by now.

And that is far from what you can actually know about street fight and real self defense. There is much more you can learn.

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Reality Based Martial Arts to Dominate and Destroy a Scumbag!

Let me illustrate four key elements to focus on when you are involved in an emergency attack situation. The four points that I am emphasizing here make up the crux of what you must do in a "reality based self defense" crisis, i.e. - a street fight confrontation which may well become life threatening. If this unfortunate predicament does materialize, it is absolutely critical that you have in place the required knowledge and tools in order to make sure you are the one standing at the end.

Reality based martial arts tips: My best advice would be to surrender against an attacker with a gun, but if he intends on killing you, then fight back hard. It is foolhardy to attempt to take away his weapon when all he is looking for is the quick payday that you might have in your wallet. Use this same tactic if you are confronted by a thug carrying a blade.

The second rule of reality based martial arts: The heroic movie based fighting sequences you see on the big screen are just that, they are science fiction. Flying through the air feet first while screaming will not disarm a switchblade wielding attacker. I once saw a guy try this very tactic and within a few minutes was bleeding out almost to death. Remember that the key underlying concept of this system is to stay under control at all times. I would reiterate that you should not seek to duplicate the combat scenes on television!

The third Credo of reality based martial arts: Getting punched is not as traumatic as it would appear. Generally, the whacks that you absorb will be glancing blows rather than direct hits, and you will probably shake them off almost immediately due to adrenaline. Learning how to correctly roll with the punches in practice is an integral facet of becoming an expert in self defense. Engaging in training sessions at your gym or in your basement with a buddy will gradually increase your confidence and make you accustomed to combat situations.

The fourth and final point of reality based martial arts: Your worst enemy is yourself- it is impossible to correctly execute a battle plan when you are in a panic. You must have the knowledge to execute the correct responses while getting hit from all angles by your assailant. You must be seasoned enough that you will maintain your composure and not panic while you are being clobbered by an out of control adversary.

Always remember to keep your fighting skills in reality - leave those late night television karate heroics for the actors and stunt professionals. Remember to keep everything as simple as possible, those sophisticated moves that look so exciting in movies could end up getting you hurt badly. If you keep those four keys in your head all the time, you will definitely become more proficient at self defense.

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