Shoud You Notify Your Attacker That You Are Trained In The Martial Arts?

[ExtremeFitness]

Author Shawn Kovacich explains: According to some aneldquo;expertsanerdquo; in the field of self-defense, you should notify your potential attacker that you are in fact trained in the martial arts and that if provoked, you will use that training to defend yourself. Now I consider this advice to be akin to taking a knife and cutting across your own throat to see if it is sharp enough. Sure, youanersquo;ll find out the answer to that one, but only once.

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[torofuerte]

From that link:

Originally Posted by Kovacich

Now I am generally not one to go around calling things or people stupid, but in this case, I am unable to find anything else that fits

The man is right. Suggesting such a course of action betrays a little bit of truth about the author:

1. He's basing his suggestion on the assumption that the offender will announce his intentions to assault. That's an inaccurate portrait of criminal behavior.

2. He's assuming that a person trained in martial arts would have a chance to fight an armed attacker (for who the fuck would commit an assault bare handed), specially if he's not carrying an equalizer (a weapon) at the time of the assault. That's a "Mr. Miyagi" fantasy.

Those two things would make question the usefulness of that type of self-defense instruction.

[wildstang]

if somebodys gonna attack me sure if he's unarmed, im not gonna say anything about martial arts training and use that to my advantage of element of suprise, but if he's armed he or she will be staring down the barrel of my conceiled 1911! of course all legal like (permit 4conceilment) im not stupid and being former law enforcement and millitarty ive made many low life scum enemys. ive been in this situation several times to be honest and have had to draw down in previous 2 situations wich eventually turned out in my favor becuse im very good friends with current working law agencys, clear up to the local feds. ive even been hunting with quite a few showing them the hotspots and insider knowledge of wildlife habits and hotspots since i could very easily become a guide if ever choose to witch im currently kicking the thought about opening a guide servicesince theseslocal guids are easily pulling nunbersupword of 250 to 350 a day. per person in the hunting party some are even paying 500$ a day. (guiding)hunters has become a lucrative part time job. for most sitizens from out of state who are rich and the amount spent on the guide service is chump change 4 them sometimes getting free equipment since good portion of the out of state hunters have multi bussiness business aimed at outdoor sportsman hunting equipment.

[ckn]

The law in the UK is that you take the consequences of your actions if you attack someone. If someone has a serious but hidden illness an attacker can get done for murder if they die from something that wouldn't kill another average person. If someone attacks a master martial arts practitioner then that's their problem when they get a whuppin'. That's on the sole condition that the attacked person stops beating them when the fight is clearly won.

[KPCJH]

I will announce my martial arts training by throwing the first punch or kick, no sooner.