An excerpt from "Rick Tew's Martial Science - System and Philosophy" on
www.NinjaGym.com by Master Instructor Rick Tew:
Like most beginners of the martial arts, students of Rick Tew's Martial Science (RTMS) are also interested in self-defense. Fear of pain is the motivation in this case. People are always trying to avoid pain. This pain could be in the form of a school bully, thief, or a mugger. Other fears, like that of being overweight, out of shape, lazy or undeveloped as a whole, are also factors for motivation. However, many martial artists will agree a high percentage of their purpose was to learn to defend oneself. As well as being unique and eclectic, RTMS offers techniques of self-defense that give students a sense of confidence and ability.
Self defense is the ability to do the best you can when protecting yourself or others.
Too often people confuse self defense with the illusion of television action stunt scenes. You can not expect to be 100% effective in combat.
The purpose of self defense training is to increase your percentage of survival.
For example, if you started training with a 10% chance of defending yourself the skills you learn may increase your ability to a 20% chance. Twenty percent may not seem like much but it is double what you came in with. If you get attacked and beaten and were unable to defend yourself or others it does not necessarily mean that your training is ineffective, it means your percentage was not high enough and perhaps you would have gotten beaten worse if you had not trained. So our goal in self defense is to increase our self defense percentage.
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