To be honest if you get to the point where you are fighting then your self defense has already failed.
As for some of the MMA comments, I am 56 years old and train submission grappling once a week. I train at a level that is comfortable for me and have developed my game around my particular skills. If you can call being old and slow skills.I go with the old school Gracie style of fighting, or in my case rolling, not to lose. I play a very defensive game and allow my younger friends the chance to wear themselves our or get frustrated with the slowness of the game and to make a stupid mistake. You would be surprised how often this works.
As someone pointed out WSL's approach was survival also. His approach sounds very much like the H2H I learned in the Marines. Weapons of opportunity were a big part of our training back in the day and still is in the current program. As the put it now, "One Mind Any Weapon".
BTW James, its Marines, with a capital M.We jarheads are touchy about stuff like that.
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Originally Posted by Ernie
