What Are The Best Self Defense Moves?

When deciding to train martial arts you need to get all the information you can before you make the final decision.  You need to know why you want to train martial arts.  Do you want to train just for self defense?  What moves best suit your body?  What style of martial arts is best for your body type?  These are just a few of the questions you will need to have answered before you start training in a self defense class. 

Martial arts are continuously developing. What so many found useful long ago is no longer holding up in our modern-day world. This is not necessarily a bad thing. It just means that new catalysts have been introduced into the situation and now new studies and practices are necessary. Gracie ju-jitsu is a perfect example of this. Suddenly all the stand-up martial artists had to figure out a way to fight on their backs. Later the game changed again. A mix of martial arts were then required in order to compete in professional circles. Practitioners needed a good stand-up game and a good ground game to vie with the best. However, many individuals are solely interested in martial arts for self defense moves. This means reality and the street are the issues at-hand. Any idea what you would do in an altercation?

There are street forms of self-defense and there are sport forms of fighting. Sure, they may share some of the same principles, practices and techniques, but they can be very different. You see, fighting in a competition requires lots of training, conditioning and sparing. Whereas self-defense will not take up as much of your time. The key is learning the high percentage self defense moves. What works and what doesn’t?

Some martial arts techniques are very practical and efficient and others are simply ridiculous.  First of all, if you're learning a martial art for self defense, I don't recommend hard styles such as karate and tae kwon do. They have a lot of kicks and blocks that can take longer to learn. If you're searching for a good hard style that has proven its worth for tournaments, I recommend Muay Thai. Secondly, the two most practical arts for street self-defense are Wing Chun and Brazilian ju-jitsu. Both offer very effective self defense moves that can be learned in a short period of time.

The Internet will definitely guide you to plenty of information and websites when it comes to self defense moves. Even if you're not interested in taking a course, you can acquire certain texts that are awesome for our modern-day environment. Learn how to keep your self safe at all times. Most of it is just common sense.  Don’t think you can watch a video or read a book and be able to recall the self defense moves while under attack.  Sorry it just doesn’t work that way.  You will have to practice and train to make it work for you. 

That doesn’t mean that you need to become a professional fighter to learn self defense and how to take care of yourself in a fight.  A 6 week course can go along way in giving you the information you need to start making self defense moves easer for you to recall.  Of course the best thing to do is enroll in a good martial arts school and get trained right.  You will get into great shape and you will learn lots of moves that can work in self defense for your body type.  Also you will meet great people who are working to better themselves.  Whatever you decide make sure you do your research and find a martial art class around you and try it out.  You might find you like it.