Martial Arts and Boxing For Real Life Situations

Martial Arts and Boxing For Real Life Situations, Can it help you?

What can really help you when your in real need to defend yourself? This is a very heated and debatable question in many social circles, particularly in Martial Arts and Boxing circles. Everyone thinks the thing they practice is the best and they will argue about it all night.

But we don't want arguing or debates, we just want to know what is most effective in a real life situation.

Could anyone answer this question and make you fully beleive it? As we know, all fight situations are different so maybe one martial art would be better for a certain type of fight situation and perhaps Boxing skills would be better for another.

In my own experience i would say, If you have good boxing skills and are a student of Brazilian Jui-Jitsu you have the best general chance of being able to handle most fight situations.

These two fighting arts give you a good mix of stand up fighting and ground fighting, so no matter how the fight goes, you are skilled in both areas. Most fights will either be a trading of punches or a wrestling, close contact fight, so it makes sense to practice both of these as much as possible.

Many of the Martial Arts, such as Kung Fu, Aikido, Karate and so on, although good Martial Arts, don't have any answer for ground fighting, so if the fight goes to the ground all the skills are gone. The same can be said for Kickboxing and Thai Boxing, there both good Martial Arts but they don't have any ground skills at all. Wrestling is a good thing to practice that is very helpful in a real fight situation, giving you an edge if a fight goes to the ground.

The best thing you can do is make sure you do some form of stand up fighting, and also some kind of ground game like Brazilian Jui-Jitsu or Wrestling. This way you are prepared for most fight situations. Obviously if your involved in a gang fight or you are fighting more then one person at a time, you should not want to take a fight to the ground.

How To Defend Yourself

How To Defend Yourself

Need To Defend Yourself? Remember These Tips

Well, I would say most males would love to be good fighters. Sadly or maybe luckily, not all males have that fighting gene. But that doesn't mean you can't defend yourself, or learn to defend yourself.

Firstly, if you want to be able to defend yourself against being hit in the face, you have to be aware of the shot coming, if your not, your most probably going to get knocked out. Like the old, and very true saying goes, the punches that knock you out are the ones you don't see coming. If you are aware your going to get hit and see it coming, your body automatically tenses up and protects you, gets you ready for an impact.

So never forget, always stay alert when you know a fight situation is within arms length. People love to get the first punch in, and if your standing within range to be hit, you better be prepared. Don't stand in range and just try to talk it through. Keep your distance, if they want to get close to you back off a step or two, keep the distance there, and only close that distance if you know your going to fight or if you know the situation has been fully sorted out. If i know there is an argument or disagreement that cold turn nasty, I am NEVER in distance to be hit.

Also, never forget, a moving target is much harder to hit then a still one. If someone goes to hit you and you just slightly move your head either down or side to side, they have a good chance of not connecting properly. Same with your arms and hands. If you get used to having them up by your face in a fight, they will most definately save you from being hit flush in the face. Most people that on the street will use hooks, if you have your arm(s) up, almost in the position as if your using a mobile phone, but bring your elbow round and forearm round to cover the side of your face more. You have an excellent chance of blocking the hook with this type of arm position. So then you take the punch on the arms and not in the face.

Just remember, never let your guard down when you know a fight could take place.

Alcohol is such a bad thing when fighting, you will forget about keeping your arms up and your wits about you, forget about the distance and end up swinging punches like a crazy man. This is when you lose your fighting skills that would save you and you go to the "average guys" level. Make sure you don't go there. Don't drink too much!

To defend yourself you need to be able to think clearly, and drinking alcohol does the total opposite.

I Don't Want To Fight - Do You Have A Choice?

I Don't Want To Fight

Many, if not all of us would rather not fight. The thought alone of trading blows with another person scares a lot of people. But what happens if you need to fight. What do you do if you have to fight? To defend yourself or a loved one? Would you fight. Or would you flight.

Personally i feel that EVERYONE should have some fighting skills, even people that have never had a fight in their lives, because at some point it catches up with you and at some stage YOU will have to fight. And when that day comes, if you don't perform like you thought you would then your going to question yourself. And think, if only i knew how to fight. Many of these type of people are the ones that join a Martial Arts school or Boxing Gym for a few months, until the shame of what happened to them wears away..Then they stop going. And they forget how much they needed the knowledge and clearness of mind to react accordingly in a fight situation- until the next time something happens and their not prepared to deal with it. Then the same questions go over in their mind. Then they want to learn how to fight again, until it wears off again.

With the world getting worse, if you ever needed to know how to defend yourself, IT's NOW.

So many unprovoked attacks, gangs , skitszos running around. I know what your thinking, these days loads of people carry weapons, knifes, guns! etc. But i tell you this, if you are in good shape and do something like boxing, brazilian jiu jitsu, judo, wrestling or any other fighting art, you are much much more able to deal with a weapon attack then if you do no training at all..Doing a fighting art puts your mental state much higher then someone that doesnt. You think more quickly and clearly. Your reaction time is much quicker, way more confident. You can see if trouble is going to start much quicker and try to avoid it before it happens. To be continued.