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Remember, a real fight is often either a social monkey dance or a predatory like adrenal-chemical stress-flooding event that takes you totally and completely by surprise where you are in the midst of being pummeled, crowded, unbalanced with total loss of structure. As one professional said, “Say you are hit from behind, just behind the ear and the flurry is reining down on you and you have to start your self-fense from there.” What the … oh crap you are in the shit now!
Sparring is another learning tool that many assume teaches you how to fight but that is not strictly true. Like kata and other aspects of martial arts and karate they teach you a lot about fundamental principles and often, if done right, provide you teachings that help your senses and body to act and respond in certain ways. Sparring in the dojo is also drastically different from competitive events also called sparring. None of that even comes close to how an attack goes down.
Sparring is about teaching the principles and is used to mesh out issues and changes to each unique individual so that when they do actually train, as much as you can in a training model, in a reality-based adrenal stress-conditioned model they can; first, learn how to handle the chemical dump effects and then, second work on making their efforts adhere to principles, methodologies and types of force all within the socially created conditions dictated by law, the legal system and the whims of ignorant societies often alarmed and disturbed by anything they remotely feel, emotionally, is violence.
Another perspective on sparring in karate from the Shinseidokan Dojo blog, i.e., “Efficiency in a fight … dream on!” Clarke Sensei, if you have read his bibliographic-like book has a deal of experience in fighting, the social-n-asocial types. He and some other experienced folks, professionals, who have graciously provided teachings from their experiences all same pretty much the same thing.
Now, I understand that the majority of those self-fense martial and karate dojo out there are going to read something like this as begin to rant, rave, whine and cry that this is all bullshit and what they do will work in self-defense but in truth - mostly, not so much. When you finally get at least a picture in your mind of what real self-defense is; what real martial arts are; what real karate is and how those work in relation to the legal, legal system and social conditions in the real world you will come to a slightly, actually a pretty big difference, different perception and perspective of what you teach vs. what is reality.
In most social situations your karate fense may be there for you and you may get pretty lucky that it just ends up, worst case, in the ER with bruises, bumps and maybe a broken bone or two without some legal response but in truth if things go from worse to really bad and first responders have to take in the situation it is a reality that they will find your martial fense actually illegal and off to jail without passing go you GO. Ain’t life grand.
In my opinion, I suspect and theorize that most who train the common martial defense stuff are just plain lucky and often find themselves not even close to being exposed to real, the realty of, conflict with violence. But hey, what the heck, my experience doesn’t even come close to some of the pro’s I reference much like Clarke Sensei so feel confident; feel good; feel satisfied your reality beliefs are safe cause you can ignore me totally and completely cause I ain’t got the cred’s you envision - especially since most understanding is from the entertainment industry like TV and movies …
Ok, off the soap box!
Hat tip (Ritsu-rei) to <Shinseidokan Dojo Blog by Michael Clarke Sensei> as the inspiration for this post.
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