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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synicism" data-source="post: 854269" data-attributes="member: 489">In many circumstances, I really think that this is the kind of thing that you can only learn by yourself. We're all roleplayers here. We should be familiar with the idea of imagining encounters. I believe that the ability to use martial arts to protect yourself when you really have to fight comes from mental and physical practice.Will sparring alone cut it? No. As it's been pointed out, there are a lot of rules. I really discovered that doing grappling practice with a judo student at my school when I used a thumb-lock to break his leg guard and found out that I wasn't supposed to. However, sparring teaches two fundamentally important concepts - distance (how far you have to be to launch an attack that will do damage) and timing (when to launch an attack that will do damage).So how do you translate it? I certainly do not recommend going "no holds barred" with your classmates. Someone will get hurt. However, if you know your distance and timing from sparring, you can train yourself to execute other "illegal" techniques with the same distance and timing you use in sparring, but on a static target. Heavy bags, wooden dummies, whatever.Sparring will train you to move in combat to control distance and timing. Static practice and use of your imagination will give you an opportunity to practice other techniques. It will also build your endurance in a way no other form of practice can safely accomplish. From there, it's a matter of putting the two together and that is all up to you. I really don't care what style you study. Only lots and lots of practice outside of your regularly scheduled classes is going to give that to you.The best instructors will teach you that the best way to protect yourself from a firearm is to adopt a posture that is as psychologically non-threatening as possible and to give your assailant exactly what he wants. Unless he actually wants to kill you, then nothing he can possibly do to you is worth the risk of getting your guts blown out.That is all well and good, and something I think that people should learn, but it's not easy by any stretch of the imagination. You're absolutely correct when you say that a little knowledge is dangerous. There's no sense in teaching someone how to stop a knife attack or a baseball bat swing before they are able to assume the mindset that allows them to react to such a thing, and that takes time and practice.</blockquote>

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