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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 847354" data-attributes="member: 354">A couple general points:Being "street effective" is not a matter so much of the *type* of martial art, but how they teach it to you. There are two things you really need to be effective in a crisis:1) You cannot need to think about what your doing. If you still think of what your doing along the lines of "Ok, teach said to do this for this... So third form punch...", your not there. Until your at the point where, if a punch is thrown at you suddenly, you react without thinking about it with the correct counter, you're not ready. I don't know about your dojos, and it sounds like you have a good instructor there, but around here, I would compare my abilities in a crisis favorable with students of a lot of dojos that are ranked far higher than I... Simply because, when I watch them, it doesn't seem like it's instinctive... The dojo is teaching them *what* to do, but not making them learn to *actualy do it*, if you follow. So if you find a dojo that, like you said, makes you practice the same basic strike, block, or counter over, and over, and over, and over... You have a 50-50 chance of having found a good one. The other possibility is a lazy instructor. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />2) Adaptability. This ties somewhat into 1, and it's something a friend I know expressed to me much better than I had figured out for myself. Not only must your style teach you to do things instinctivly, but you have to it has to teach you how to use it outside of perfect sparring conditions. Because you won't find those in a real fight.Further, I would stay away from any dojo that seems to teach flashy stuff... Flashy stuff isn't what you need. And if your dojo doesn't teach it, but you actualy think you might need to defend yourself, find a way to learn a form of weapons combat... Either knife-fighting, or one of the styles that teaches you to use *anything* as a weapon. Myself, I've taught me those things... Couldn't find anyplace to learn knife fighting or similar. And my primary martial art is kenjitsu, which might seem useless (how often am I gonna have a sword), but once you realize that a lot of things can be a "sword", it starts to become more useful. Not that I'd really want that in combat, though... That's what the other stuff is for.</blockquote>

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