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Originally Posted by nascarmike71  If you practice TKD you are a martial artist. A good SD drill is to form a circle, place one person inside, people outside of circle are given rubber knives, clubs, etc. Then the instructor goes around tapping people in to simulate bieng attakced from different angles. This is very good if done at full speed and with control. |
Curious, you train to defend yourself once you are in the circle.
Do you train how to avoid being in the circle?
How about getting out of the circle?
I ask this question from thought of an individual at work I had told him I do MA. He asked what we do and at the time I was a beginner and doing mostly throws, I commented on how much I liked the knowledge there on how to fall correctly. His response was that I was training to fall on the street, rather than stay on my feet and fight. It was a question I did not know the answer to at the time, but after a week or so it donned on me, "Because if I never fall and nobody else does either, then how will we ever learn to throw." That conversation has more depth, but I'll leave it at that.