As any good martial artist will tell you, the best way to win a fight is to not get into a fight at all! Avoiding a self-defense situation is the best defense. Just observing common sense when it comes to how you act will limit your chance of getting into a self-defense situation.
Would you ever walk through a back alley at night while waving a hundred dollar bill out of your back pocket? Hopefully not. This is obviously a bad idea, even though it does not guarantee you to have to defend yourself, it just makes it more likely. By just increasing your awarness of what can increase your likelyhood of being attacked, you can lessen the likelyhood of being attacked.
Being aware of your surroundings:
Park under streetlamps, Walk in pairs when in unfamiliar areas, don't wander, etc.
When talking about self-defense, prevention is better than having to fight and win. So, styles that take this into account will be scored equally as if they were teaching self-defense.
Thanks,
Mr. Waaler
Statement of Purpose
This project is an investigation of 5 Martial Arts styles. Self-defense is a major theme in martial arts today and to better understand how different martial arts schools and styles treat self-defense I am going to learn all I can (given time restraints) about each of the five styles. These schools will be chosen from a list of local martial arts studios, and the style will be the one that is taught at that studio. Many studios teach multiple styles, so in this case on of the styles taught there will be analyzed. At the end of the project all the schools I visited will be rated and scored to show in which areas they excel or by contrast, fall short.
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