Secrets of Winning Deadly Fight

Martial Lovers are also Peace Lovers. Although we are well-trained fighter, we only fight if we are forced by. You could see a proof of this statement at Shaolin Priests' Attitude. They are polite, civilized, and peaceful people. But it does not mean they can not fight strongly.

But fact of life does not say either. Sometimes we must fight for our life. Even this fight is deadly. Our choices are simple: to disable or to be disabled.

According to my private experience, these are very important points we must apply on when deadly fight occurs.

When the fight is going to occur (but uncertainly occur), look at opponent's hands. Do not look at her/his eyes. You must see whether the hands placed behind his/her back, placed in a bag, placed in pocket, or covered by a thing. If they are, you must suspect a weapon held by.

When the fight begins, quickly and directly apply on fatal technique to disable opponent. Do not give opponent even a second to develop his/her position. If you have been in bad position already, get advantageous position quickly. Keep in mind, real fight only takes extremely short period of time. It takes only seconds to assure the quick and the dead.

These are points we must know and apply when we are involved in deadly fight. Remember, I do not suggest to kill but to disable. To understand what kind of action we should apply to various fight situation, please read my previous article. Visualization Training : Applying Appropriate Action on Fight Situation.

Visualization Training: Applying Appropriate Action on Fight Situation

Martial Lovers, a wise man said, "Life is a choice"

In martial training, we learn how to win any fight. There are fatal techniques and non fatal techniques we train. And there are also many choices we could apply on to win or survive in real fight. To simplify them, these are choices we could apply:

1. Killing or injuring opponent

2. Disarming or disabling opponent without injuring opponent

3. Disfighting opponent (persuading opponent, getting in a room, ignoring, and so on)

4. Fleeing

The choice we decide to do depends on situation we are facing with. It is a suggestion to visualize all fight situation in your mind, thus visualize what you will do to overcome them. Visualization training is important because there is almost no time to think in a real fight. What you will do spontaneously and borne by your unconscious mind.

Now let us start visualizing situation below. You should visualize these situation thus visualize your own action to overcome them. I will not give you answers. A situation may have 1 or 2 answers.

Situation 1

Your drunken brother has come back from a bar. He is getting mad without a cause. Now he is going to hit you.

Situation 2

While you are walking on street, you meet a crazy people. He has drawn his knife, and now he is attacking you.

Situation 3

You are a soldier in a combat now. Enemies' commander is in front of you. You both are out of ammo.

Situation 4

You are being trapped in a massive chaos. Suddenly many people shout and chase you. It seems so well they are going to attack you without any mercy at all to show you.

Situation 5

You and your wife would get divorce. Last morning the misunderstanding had been cleared. You canceled divorcing. This afternoon, your brother-in-law who has not known it meeting you. In his anger, now he is going to attack you with a hammer.

How to Select Suitable Martial Art Based on Your Nature

It is good suggestion to select suitable martial art based on your nature. But this one is very different with to select suitable martial art based on muscle kinds.

To figure out your nature, ask one of your friend to be your partner in a fight game. Like you did in your childhood age.

After the game over, remember what kind of techniques you did most.

Did you prefer to use punch techniques merely? If yes, it is good to select Boxing.

Did you prefer to use kick techniques? If yes, Tae Kwon Do or Jeet Kun Do may be suitable for you.

Did you prefer to use combined techniques of punch and kick? Karate or Thai Boxing could be suitable for you.

Did you prefer to use lock techniques and/or throw techniques? You would better select Judo, Aikido, Wrestle, Pencak Silat, and so on.

Did you use combination of all techniques? If yes, you could select Kung Fu, Ju Jitsu, Shinto Ryu, Mixed Martial Art, and Ninjutsu.

Do you like armed fighting? You could select Wushu, Kung Fu or Ninjutsu.

Human's nature is unseen, unheard, intangible, and immeasurable. Explanation above is only an approach to predict your possible nature. Not to assure exact one.

How to Select Suitable Martial Art Based on Muscle Kinds

According to dr. Sadoso, an Indonesian Sport Healthiness Expert, human's muscle consist of two kinds. Oxidal Muscle and Non Oxidal Muscle. These two kinds have very different character.

Oxidal Muscle is muscle which need plenty of oxygen to release energy. It releases energy only in second or seconds, even less than them. But it releases largely powerful energy. Example of activity which needs this kind of muscle is like when you try to destroy large stone with a sledge hammer.

Non Oxidal Muscle is muscle which need very little of oxygen to release energy. But this muscle can endure for a long time, about a half an hour or longer than it. The released energy is very little and economical. Example of activity which needs this kind of muscle is when you are jogging.

If you have a lot of oxidal muscle, it is suggested to select far-fight martial art. If you have a lot of non oxidal muscle in your body, it is suggested to select close-fight martial art (to define close-fight martial art and far-fight martial art, please read my previous article: Two Categories of Martial Art).

To know which muscle kind you have majorly in your body, please try these two activities. Which one is easier for you to do, 100 metres dash or a half an hour jogging? If 100 metres dash is easier, it means you have a lot of oxidal muscle in your body. If a half an hour jogging is easier, you have a lot of non oxidal muscle.

Two Categories of Martial Art

Based on technicality and distance of fight engagement, martial art is categorized in two categories. First category is close-fight martial art, second category is far-fight martial art.

First one always gets closer distance in order to win fight. It uses throw techniques, lock techniques, and break-joint techniques. Judo, Wrestle, Aikido, Pencak Silat are example of this category.

Second one always gets far distance of fight engagement in order to win a fight. It uses variety of punch and kick techniques. Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Western Boxing, Thai Boxing, are example of this category.

May be you want to know this. What is suitable Martial Art Category for me? If you do, please read my next articles : How to Select Suitable Martial Art Based on Muscle Kinds and How to Select Suitable Martial Art Based on Your Nature.

Why People Learn Martial Art

Generally, these are reasons why people study Martial Art :

1. Self Defence

This is the first and the last goal to study Martial Art. People need to protect themselves from harm

2. Sport

Martial Art is a good sport. Thus, we could get sport achievement. Example, to be a winner in Tae Kwon Do National Championship

3. Job Requirement

Soldier, police, bodyguard and any professional fighter have to learn Martial Art. It is a must for them

4. Prestige

Some people study and practice Martial Art for prestigious reason. They want to be "Hyundai"(black belt master). It is a pride for them

Whatever your motivation to study and practise Martial Art is, in this blog we refer to use self defence purpose. Articles you read or you will read is in Self Defence Sense.

Martial Art and Self Defence

Although literally Martial Art and Self Defence could have the same meaning, these phrases have quiet different meaning essentially. Martial Art is an art fighting which basically formed by Dharma Taishi (Tatmo Cawsu), The 28th of Buddhist Priest. In 550, he traveled from India to China in order to teach Buddhism. He did not only teach Buddhism, but also Indian Art Fighting (Indo Campo). It was important to teach because Buddhist priests often traveled from India to China, or on the contrary to learn Buddhism. The Silk Path in the time was not empty of robbers.

Then this art was developed in Shaolin Temple, which then called "Shaolin Kung Fu".

By the time, basic of this art spreads to many countries in the world. In Japan, adoption of this art bore Ju Jitsu, Aikido, Hapkido, Judo, and Karate. In Thailand, Thai Boxing. In Indonesia, Pencak Silat. In Korea, Tae Kwon Do. Even in this modern time, it still bears new martial art such as Shinto Ryu and Mixed Martial Art.

What about Self Defence?

Self Defence has greater meaning than Martial Art. It includes any method which human being use to defend themselves. It does not matter unarmed or armed action. Wrestle, Boxing, sword fighting, shooting, and Martial Art itself are Self Defence. So we could conclude Martial Art is part of Self Defence.

Although many Eastern experts insist on classifying Wrestle and Boxing as Non Martial Art, but now these arts are considered Martial Art. Systematically, they complete requirement to be classified as Martial Art.