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Originally posted by Moonduck
... a gun is FAR more reliable than most martial art trainign given the spurious way most people are trained. You are taught to respond to set attacks that you know are coming, and the attacks are generally carried out in a totally unrealistic fashion. You then carry out a set of predetermined formulaic response that does not take into account the physiological responses that a real target will experience to the sequence of attacks. On top of this, you perform these maneuvers repetitively with ZERO FORCE behind the attacks, at minimal speed. In all, this type of 'training' is setting the student up with a completely incorrect mental picture of how an assault will occur and how even their own maneuvers will work in a real world conflict.
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What you're describing sounds more like the "Budget Weekend Self-Defence / Cash-Grab" high-school programs than any actual training you'd receive at a school. A few "graduates" showed up at an informal training session one day to show off, and needless to say got their asses handed to them swiftly and severely.