MARTIAL Arts like judo, Aikido, Hapkido...
It's not that I don't respect arts like Judo, Aikido, Hapkido, etc. To be good at these arts requires years of dedication and practice as well as excellent physical condition. I remember back in the 60's when I was training judo.
Man, you had to be in really good shape to play randori (tournament style judo where the object is to throw, control or choke out your opponent).
That was sheer hard work. It not only required a lot of skill but excellent body conditioning. However for real life, practical self defense, in my opinion it's the long road. A road that most will not reach the destination. Why? Well first off it takes many, many years to get to the point of being able to throw someone effectively and consistently when they don't want to be thrown.
Add in a street opponent who is try to punch, kick, knee and head butt you while you're trying to fit for a throw. Now take into consideration, that your opponent might be six foot five (not easy to throw a real tall guy if you haven't tried it) or maybe five foot five and two hundred and seventy five pounds (not easy to throw either). Now multiply the difficulty while you are under an adrenal rush. Your fine motor control is minimized or lost. Your cognitive thinking is blurred at best.
Are you going to be able to figure out which of the 30 throws you know how to execute to use and when? Look, maybe a high ranking black belt judo player who has learned some mixed martial arts striking skills will be able to consistently pull off throwing a street attacker.
But what about the rest of us? The bottom line (in my humble opinion) is that it's much easier to learn to hit someone than to throw someone. We've tested striking many times in adrenal stress scenarios. Many times with totally untrained students.
They manage to strike their attackers repeatedly and usually with pretty good power as well. As long as the striking they are doing is simple and effective they are successful, time and time again.
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