This may be an old argument but I always am looking for a better understanding.
During some of the other posts it keeps coming up about what "would work in a real fight"
It is always interesting for me to read posts from dozens of young sport fighters who have won a few bar fights in their day lay claim to understand "combat"
In actual fact the concept and basic premis of "street fighting" and that of "combat" are very different and unique.
I do not deny that there is a risk of death in a street fight nor do I down play its impact on your adrenalin. I think the big thing is that I firmly feel that there is a difference between training in a dojo and military and police training. I am not talking difference in technique but in mind set.
John Doe got into a bar fight last night while out with the boys......
Smith woke up this morning knowing he was heading out on a military exercise, going to walk his beat, or knew he was working Cell block C, He accepts that each and every day he works like this he has 2 things that are real possiblilities....
1. He may be attacked
2. if so... somebody may die.
Raise your hand if you woke up saturday morning before you hit the bar on saturday night and ran that thought through your head.
No matter what you say, this mind set plays a big part in self defence and how they conduct themselves in combative situations. If anyone can convince me that training a few nights a week in a dojo and listening to Sensei "I was a marine for 30 years" is going to equal that attitude......... go for it......
(my comment was not meant to lessen the experiences of those that were marines, but when they train you in the dojo........ you just dont put in the hours he did....)
Mike O'Leary