What I Have Been Doing Wrong ....

Most of what I understand about martial systems, self protection, etc. comes from what I am studying but most of all from what I have discovered I have been doing wrong for a lot of years.

Self-defense, Self-protection and Self-promotion; these things are not always as clear as one might think. As to SD - I spent about fifteen years practicing, teaching and promoting a series of techniques as related to specified threat techniques; I was wrong, fooling myself and most important fooling my students.

I didn't do this intentionally. It came about from the same teachings most dojo or training facilities do today. I suspect either they don't really know or they don't give a shit cause their bullshit is earning them money. They, as I, have been lucky that the percentages of persons actually encountering violence is so small that it is rare that a student, former student or a martial artist has not sued the shit out of the persons promoting the most deadly system of self defense that is absolutely fool proof yadda, yadda, yadda.

I can honestly say that once the truth was exposed to me I first said to myself, "Oh shit," then started to change the way I think, practice and train. The positive side is that I have spent the last few years "correcting" all the bullshit into a martial system I can be proud of. I have also taken a closer look at my system as I was taught and have spent those years modifying it for what I meant to practice when I started.

You have to be able to realize when your doing something wrong. You have to be able to say to yourself that you were wrong. You have to take the strength and intestinal fortitude to change and to tell those who practice and train with you that you are wrong and you are changing things for the better.

If you have been doing this a long time one way you will need to accept the facts, allow your pride and ego to subside  thus allowing you to seek out those who have trained and practiced as it should be done and ask for assistance in making those all important corrections.

This is maybe the hardest aspect of martial arts or any system that is for fighting, violence and combat.