The Effectiveness of the Martial Arts: Scoring System

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.

Four Catagories of Self-defense

1. One-on-One stand up fighting

2.One-on-One ground fighting

3. Multiple Attacker situations

4. Self-defense attitude and philosophy

Seven Measured Areas of Self-Defense (to be measured in categories 1,2 and 3)

Each will recieve a score between zero and ten, zero being the worst and ten being the best

1. Damage Dealt
         -See Damage Chart
2. Damage Sustained
         -See Damage Chart
3. Practicality of Manuevers

4. Speed of Retaliation

5. Ease of Escape

6. Time Required for full Impact of Damage Dealt to come into Effect
       -See Damage Chart
7. Ability to Teach Self-Defense and Martial Arts as a Whole

-For the scoring of teaching self-defense and the martial arts, I will be using Kyoshi Dave Kovars teaching guidlines and 16 essential teaching tools.

16 essential Teaching Tools
1- Friendliness
2- Transformational Communication
3- Focus Anchors
4-Preframing
5- 3 x 3 rule (Name, Appropriate Physical Contact, Eye Contact)
6- public praise, private reprimand
7- 3 d's (Detail Demonstrate Drill)
8- Praise challenge praise
9- influence over authority
10- SSL rule (Sweating Smiling Learning)
11-Disguise repitition
12- zero downtime
13- rise to challenging students
14-every huddle discussion a masterpiece
15- safety first
16-never compromise the instructor/student relationship.