Civil Arts
There is a distinct chasm that separates the military arts, Budo, from the civil(Ian) arts, minken gaijutsu. Ofte, in self-defense the two get mixed causing the civil and legal actions to trigger and attack, attacking your claim of self-defense. It means many a dojo preaching and teaching self-defense will occasionally expose their practitioners to legal, civil and medical financial pitfalls, obstacles and repercussions and consequences.
It would be a good recommendation to ensure practitioners learn, accept, understand, believe and apply the differences so they can avoid said pitfalls, etc., of using possibly inappropriate and dangerous methods and methodologies of their tactics-cool skills from, “within the dojo,” training and practices.
The dangers begin as one enters a dojo, because the focus is on learning, doing and attaining a status by jumping into the “cool stuff.” You know, like kata and competition and trophies and bragging rights of martial arts as it is viewed by many not to forget to mention its depiction in movies, etc.
It is just “luck” that most, mostly, don’t encounter a need to defend themselves and in many cases when they do it’s more the social posturing, etc., type of fighting (which is the illegal part) where real harm or death is non-intentional but still prosecutable in our legal system. For most, the predatory asocial surprise attack is rare making the current system profitable to say the least.
This brings us back to words, calling self-defense “martial or military” systems sends out the wrong message infecting and influencing our self-talk that literally works against the attitude others see, perceive and therefore judge how they see one’s claim of self-defense.
The words used in teaching will affect what, how and why of what you say to first responders all the way to both the legal and civil systems who will sit in judgement of you and what you claim you did that triggered self-defense and SD-laws.
Mull this over a bit!
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