What Is The Best Martial Art For Self-Defence?

December 10, 2007

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We are aiming for this site to be a good resource for Self Defence as well as Martial Arts so this is a very pertinent question and one I get asked a lot.

Pretty much all Martial Arts have something to offer, and a trained Martial Artist will pretty much always beat an untrained attacker on the street. However, there are stories around about trained people in a confrontation reacting how they normally train, for example, one story I heard was of a TaeKwondo guy reacting by trying to score a point, a light fast kick to the head, it had no effect!! This guy got hit quite a bit and eventually turned it around and beat his attacker, but that’s not what you want in a self-defence situation.
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