This article highlights the flaws in this approach to the real world defense training in the 21st century. Once you are through this article, you will understand and assess your current training and will come to know whether or not you are prepared to defend yourself from the sudden real attacks of modern times and not the arts which were commonly used in 16th century in Japan, Korea, China or from any other country of its origin.

This is not really criticizing any martial art or its style or approach in self-defense. This is only because the times have changed and what was applicable earlier may not be applicable today.

The model and the style have to change as per the time and the need, so that you are totally protected against a real attack. The important aspect is that you should be able to execute your art’s snapping, front punch or in case of the modern Ninjutsu students’ so called classical tsuki normally pronounced as ski which is effective while wearing the ancient armor.

This has to effective in negating the attack of a modern street thug who does not care what type of fighter you are, he is not concerned or does not know that you are a black belt holder or whatever style you have. You should be equipped with an art which can provide you complete defense in case of a sudden attack.

Here, a big question is that what kind of punch are you mostly likely to deal with, during a street fight or in case of self-defense. There can be many options like using a Karate front punch, a ninpo-taijutsu tsuki, a white crane Kung-Fu fingertip strike but from my side it is a big no.

The reason is that you really do not know that what is really like inside of a real attack, this is the hard reality and I am in no way inviting you to join and get trained in Karate. You have to learn a system which actually works in the real fight; you have a system which can defend you in case of need.

The real question is while you are practicing against the official, classical and proper strikes from the martial art styles. Effective way of self-defense requires more than the few Karate moves, it needs lot of practice and strategy, you have to be strategically right and understand the real self-defense techniques.

You have to neutralize the attack from the attacker and for that you will have to read his mind and understand his / her next move. This needs both physical and psychological training so that any move from the opponent is tackled in the most effective way so that you are quite safe and have dominated the opponent.

So what happens when a person trained in karate vs a street brawler? It’s hard to answer that question. Other elements come into play such as, the weight of the brawler, his height, his strength, his motivation, the surroundings etc. One thing is for sure, without any basic training in Karate or anything other forms of martial arts, you shouldn’t be getting into a fight with anyone.

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