Is Martial Arts pointless for women?

Which one?

That's exactly what I was explaining to someone the other day.

I'm 5'2 and a judoka, and in my classes I usually fight against women who are in most cases near my height and the same weight as me. This also applies to the competitions I enter, I always fight against women.. guys too if they're the same weight as me but that's very rare. But if I were to get man-handled by a guy, who will (99.9% of the time) be taller and heavier than me, where do my Judo skills come in?

What's cycling like?

Sports based stuff is pretty much pointless in a self-defense context

Your legs will be a lot stronger if you do that often. Martial arts isn't pointless unless you are completely helpless, in a fight the person who knows how to punch and defend them self is the one who is going to win (not talking in context of just straight up fighting but in self defense) unless the person who is attacking you is a LOT stronger than you. Do an actual martial art, karate I didn't learn anything really to defend myself apart from blocks and how to punch properly in white belt.

How long have u been training for? do you ever try to fight the guys and if so what happens

As a woman most guys will be a lot stronger tho

have you done anything other than karate?

4 years.

I get paired with guys who are near-ish my height. Some I'm able to tackle straight up but some just overpower me and throw me everywhere like a ragged doll seriously though, strength overpowers skills when it comes to different genders going up against one another.

How big were they and you? What do u do?

LOOL this made me chuckle.

If you are really focused on being prepared for getting attacked then I don't think martial arts are the best thing and I say that as someone who loves tae kwon do.

First I think the best self defence in not getting into a dangerous situation. Second I think it's verbal de-escalation. Third I think it's running like your life depends on it. And fourth I think it's about physical defence.

For the physical aspect you will benefit from being able to throw a good punch but not really any more advanced martial art stuff, it's not like a film, I'd not be doing jumping reverse turning kicks and split kicks on the street. But the real important bit is how you respond in such a pressured situation, you'd probably be as scared as you've ever been in your life, you'd be shaking, your heart would be pounding, you'd not be thinking right.

I know a guy who does self defence training based upon getting people to respond to that stress, he's done it with lots of people who are black belts (even beyond first degree black belt) in various martial arts and under that pressure they're can't do relatively basic techniques. He films it because people often don't even remember how they responded because their brain is in super stress mode.

So to learn real self defence, you need to find the sort of self defence school/training that doesn't just teach you a few nice hold releases, but will create a stress situation too so you learn to be able to apply it in a realistic situation. You don't do that in martial arts classes and it's even rare in classes focused on self defence.

do u do martial arts? which one

That's exactly what I was explaining to someone the other day.

I'm 5'2 and a judoka, and in my classes I usually fight against women who are in most cases near my height and the same weight as me. This also applies to the competitions I enter, I always fight against women.. guys too if they're the same weight as me but that's very rare. But if I were to get man-handled by a guy, who will (99.9% of the time) be taller and heavier than me, where do my Judo skills come in?

Have done, but not currently.


More than one in fact



Honestly, most Tae Kwon Do/Karate who people dance around like fags in their brown belts would get destroyed, even worse for a 60kg woman. Judo is decent for a guy tbh, but you really do need to be strong and teaching people that they can fight using technique rather than physical strength, is actually pretty damn irresponsible. The main limitation with Judo being that because it's a sport, you'll get paired with people of a similar weight, height, sex etc.


The best thing for a girl would be something really dirty like Krav Maga or Systema, but the quality control can be fairly ****ty in this country.

how tall r u if u dont mind me asking? ya ive started lifting weights but im never going 2 be as strong as a man lol

Sexist

You'd probably get knocked out! :/

No offense to your Judoka skills.

Just curious but are these types of self defence classes common at uni's or people coming in?

You'd probably get knocked the **** out! :/

No offense to your Judoka skills.

No, most things taught as self defence are pretty useless but make people feel better.

Like they'll teach you how to get out of someone grabbing you or where best to strike, maybe a sweep take down. But like I said, useless if you are too busy panicing