It's time for "answer a question with a question"! The answer to "Do Martial Arts REALLY work" is "Does football REALLY work?".
To paraphrase Bruce Lee, if you learn how to "do" football and you lose a game, it doesn't mean the plays were bad. It doesn't mean the technique of throwing a pass is no good. It means simply that you have not developed the attributes required to apply those skills against that particular opponent.
To paraphrase Bruce Lee, if you learn how to "do" football and you lose a game, it doesn't mean the plays were bad. It doesn't mean the technique of throwing a pass is no good. It means simply that you have not developed the attributes required to apply those skills against that particular opponent.
To be fair, some people teach techniques that require many years to apply against a living adversary. Even so, it's simply a matter of putting in the training. A Personal Defense tends to focus on techniques that require little training to become effective. The focus is on "low-cost high-return" training. Low cost does not mean no cost though. Any self-protection method is only as good as the one using it.
One illustration to be clear. Let's say your personal defense approach is a 9mm automatic. You could buy it and a box of shells and leave both in the box until 3am 4 years later when some guy with a ski mask and a baseball bat breaks down your door. The guy with the bat wins. Clearly guns don't really work, and bats are the way to go, right?
Maybe instead, you take your new gun home and load it. It sits in the dresser until the same scenario goes down. Winner = bat. Are you ready now to give up on that silly firearm and get a "good" weapon?
OK, so instead, you buy several boxes of shells, get good instruction, and practice with your weapon regularly using the same high stress methods the police use. You always keep it with you, and you invest in a special gun safe that puts the weapon in your hand literally at the touch of your fingers. It changes the scenario a bit, no?
You should know that even with training, 24% of all police officers who get shot are shot with their own gun. The training is good, the gun is good. It comes down to YOU. Are you ready to invest time and effort now so you will have what you need when it matters? It's all about YOU.
One illustration to be clear. Let's say your personal defense approach is a 9mm automatic. You could buy it and a box of shells and leave both in the box until 3am 4 years later when some guy with a ski mask and a baseball bat breaks down your door. The guy with the bat wins. Clearly guns don't really work, and bats are the way to go, right?
Maybe instead, you take your new gun home and load it. It sits in the dresser until the same scenario goes down. Winner = bat. Are you ready now to give up on that silly firearm and get a "good" weapon?
OK, so instead, you buy several boxes of shells, get good instruction, and practice with your weapon regularly using the same high stress methods the police use. You always keep it with you, and you invest in a special gun safe that puts the weapon in your hand literally at the touch of your fingers. It changes the scenario a bit, no?
You should know that even with training, 24% of all police officers who get shot are shot with their own gun. The training is good, the gun is good. It comes down to YOU. Are you ready to invest time and effort now so you will have what you need when it matters? It's all about YOU.
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