When We Are Allowed To Hit Someone?

As self defense practitioner, there are 4 situations where we are allowed to hit someone:

1. When someone trying to attack us or touching our body.

2. When someone trying to touching, stealing or sabotage our private belongings.

3. When someone trespassing our private area without permission.

4. When someone being attacked and need our help (good person only, we never help bad person).

How To Stopping A Fight

Stopping a fight is mandatory skill that must be mastered by all fighting sport trainers and referees.

Sometimes, the fighters can't / won't listen your command, so you must stop the fight and separating both fighters using direct force (personally, i was also can't listen the referee several times because the tournament venues are too noisy).

Tang Soo Do

Tang Soo Do (당수도) is a Korean fighting style created by Korean students who developed it from Northern Chinese Kungfu (功夫) during Tang dynasty era (618-907).

Tang Soo Do is Korean martial art that focus on both punches and kicks balancedly.

Silat

Southeast Asian fighting style created by Malay students in 14th century.

Developed from older Chinese Kungfu (功夫) and Indian Kickboxing (Adithada/Musti Yuddha) brought by missionary monks.

Beipai Kungfu

Beipai Kungfu (北派功夫) / Kuoshu (國術) is an ancient Northern Chinese martial art created before Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC).

It is said that the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi) who ascended to power in 2698 BC, introduced the earliest systematized fighting style in China.

Kickboxing

Ancient Indian fighting style, also known as Musti Yuddha (Sanskrit), Adithada (Hindi) & Moraingy (Malagasy).

Various ancient Kickboxing tournaments existed in ancient India since the middle of the 2nd millennium BC, Indian Kickboxing spread worldwide from neighboring South Asia countries to overseas Africa countries.

Karate

Karate (空手) is a Southern Japanese (Ryukyu Kingdom) fighting style created in 17th century.

Developed from Chinese Kungfu (功夫) brought from by Ryukyuan students to Southern Japan.

Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do (截拳道) is a modern Kungfu style created by Bruce Lee (Lee Jun Fan) in 1967.

Bruce Lee combine various martial arts into his new fighting style.

Boxing

Ancient Sumerian fighting style also known as Mulakima (Arabic), Loh Mushti (Punjabi), Pygmachia (Greek), Kulachniy Boy (Russia), Dambe (Hausa), Musangwe (Venda) and Takanakuy/Tinku (Quechua).

The oldest historical artifact of Boxing comes from a Sumerian relief in Iraq from the third millennium BC.

How To Teach Martial Art For Kids

Teachers at dojo must be a good example for their students like teachers at school. Your dojo must safe for kids both physical and mental health.

These how to teach self defense and fighting sport for kids properly:

- You must act like real school teacher, be nice.

- Teach your techniques as fun game, for aerobic exercise and for self defense. Not for violence.

- No difficult nonsense theories, no delusional mystic things. Just teach them how to punch and kick (martial art dojo is sport club, not occult sect!!).

- For basic aerobic - self defense clubs, 5 years old is the minimum age requirement to learn basics of self defense, because their mind and body ready for basic self defense training.

- For fighting sport (for pro athletes) clubs, late middle school ages (11-12) is the safest minimum age to doing sparring fight or participate in fighting tournament (with modified-special rules, using very limited techniques for their safety), because your kids now mature enough to respect the tournament rules and control their emotion.

- For martial dance (like Wushu Taolu and Karate Kata) clubs, 5 years old is permitted to join the club but they join for introduction / for fun. 5 years old students are not expected to mastering difficult martial dance forms (Taolu/Kata/Jurus Tarian/Teul) yet, unlike middle school students.

- For grappling sport (like Wrestling and Judo) club, early high school ages (12-13) is the safest minimum age to start training. Grappling moves relying on raw muscle strength and the student’s body must developed first to training well.

Proper Shoe For Martial Art Training

Before buying shoe for training, check it sole first.

Expensive price and famous brands are not guarantee that shoe will be useable for martial art training well. You must check the sole carefully.

Light and flat soled shoe is the proper design for fighting sport training. Doing a quick footwork, high kicking and balancing the body will be easier with light and flat soled shoe.

Alternative footwear for martial art training is strap sandal (sandal with strap) used by ancient warriors. This sandal model is still used by Silat, Kenpo and Karate communities today.

Strap sandal will not fly away when you doing kick, you can do any kicks you like. Honestly, training with strap sandal is more comfortable for me, it's much cooler than shoe because you don't need to wear sock (especially during hot weather, very helpful).

“What should i do if i was attacked on the street while wearing unproper footwear?”

Just do what japanese Samurai did, if they attacked by assassins on street while wearing wooden sandal (Geta), they throw away their sandal and fight barefooted like in Karate - Kenpo training.

If you’re unable to throw your sandal, then just use your punches, elbow strikes and pressure point strikes. Just like ancient middle eastern - african boxers did many centuries ago when they fight against bandits while wearing sandal and long dress (that is another reason why ancient Boxing only train hand techniques, because at that time there is no proper clothing and footwear which allow the fighters using high kicks).