Kardasian Self Defense?

Real self defense training can help keep a person safe, and help them survive a violent encounter, but things aren’t always that clean cut.  The fact is if you’re in a bad situation your training won’t be an instant fix.  Will it help sure, but it isn’t a guarantee and no instructor can make that claim.  In the end it is up to you and your will to survive, because sometimes you aren’t the one who is supposed to win the fight.  The good guys don’t always win, but if you want to you need to train and than fight like hell.

Not long ago on Keeping Up with the Kardasians where the women went to receive self defense training.  The instructor showed them a number of practical solid techniques and the women all enjoyed the training and left the studio laughing and confident that they could protect themselves against any threat.  Problem was when they went home and asked their athletic father to pretend to attack them, but when they fought back they found their techniques were useless.  Now you could say they only trained for a few hours or that the techniques simply didn’t work, but the fact is that they didn’t play to win.

Sport martial arts are a lot of fun and matches can be thrilling and competitive. They teach us a lot about character and discipline, but they don’t necessarily teach you how to fight.  While they give you a good idea of what it is like to grapple with another person or strike an opponent they don’t teach you about real self defense.  In a real life situation where you would use self defense things are much bloodier and nastiest, and that is because it has to be that way.  When life and death is on the line there is no such thing as “fighting dirty.”