Everyone is more or less at risk of experiencing violence during their life. This is especially true for minorities, and as leftists in today’s political climate. The risk of violence will undoubtedly increase as political climates change, so we must be ready to defend ourselves, our comrades, our family and friends, and our communities.
I practise Krav Maga (I know) and have a limited background in wrestling, Karate, and Judo. It would be great to hear everyone’s thoughts on strategies and tactics for self-defence so we can help each other become more prepared to face violent situations.
If there’s enough interest in the topic I think it would be a good idea to start a community for self-defence.
I guess in a life and death situation I’d something crazy like pop the offender’s eyes or push them into traffic or bite their ears or nose or doing all of that, it also depends on the situation that I can’t control, What I have what I could what I can reach for what I can think of etc… there’s also a last resort option I have but I prefer not talking about it, the goal isn’t killing or defeating, it’s buying time to run away.
About self-defense training I don’t think it will do very well in an actual self-defense scenario, the offender will try to get you at your worst, and nothing is under your control, also how many hours of martial arts do you need to defeat a guy who just got into “knife wan do” (the art of just stabbing), like there’s rules and techniques, things that don’t exist in the real world, Another thing is that I am small, Yk like I’ll never have a chance to survive against even a 173cm man… Idk maybe all of this is just drowning my confidence and makes me underestimate my strength or maybe not, idk, That incident fucked with my world perception and I don’t like that.
I get where you’re coming from. It’s important to be realistic about our abilities and training outcomes. At the same time, I think it’s better not to have a defeatist or victim mentality (not saying you do) and train so that that we can bring more things under our control through our skills and abilities and give ourselves more options so that we may fare better in confrontational situations where an untrained person would fare worse.
If there is a good Krav school in your area I would recommend checking it out. If it’s a good school it will train as close to reality as possible, no rules (safely of course). We practise gun and knife defence, but I’m under no illusions about my skills and would only engage if I knew I was going to die otherwise. I’ll give up my wallet or car if I’m being robbed, not worth dying over.