For starters, you forget everything you have eve seen in the movies because movies are not real.
Then you find a good instructor who teaches self-defense regardless of the style and practice diligently many hours a week and for several years.
You also learn everything you can about fitness and health that includes good nutrition and healthy lifestyles. This means eating right and living right.
You then pray and hope you never have to face a guy twice your size or 2+ guys out to harm or kill you because in life there are no guarantees. Learning martial art does not mean you can throw caution to the wind and go anywhere and do anything because you are invincible. No one is invincible. When you train in self-defense, you are hedging the odds so when the dice is rolled there is a higher chance it comes out in your favor, but there will ALWAYS be a chance of losing and on the streets losing can mean dying.
As for being fearless, the only people who are without fear are psychos. You are confusing courage with fearlessness. Courage does not mean having no fear. If you have no fear, then it is not courage. Courage means having the will to do what you believe is right or must be done in the face of fear. Fear is your mind warning you of potentially danger. Without it, you would probably have died long before now. This is why children are not allowed to do certain things because they do not know enough to understand the dangers involved and therefore have no fear of it so they blindly unknowingly do it and get hurt or killed.
Some decent answers here... but let's be a little more reaslistc.
Nothing is a guarantee, professional fighters don't even want to take on someone twice their size. The idea of beating up 2+ guys at the same time isn't realistic. You can survive an encounter like that, you can do enough damage to get away, but your goal should never be to willingingly engage in a physical confrontation with 2 or more people with the unrealistic expectation that you are going to be walking away unblemished while they writhe in agony on the ground or they are laying there unconcious and twitching.. can that happen? Sure, with a good bit of luck and skill. But it isn't what you set out to do.
Everyone has fear in the face of the opponent, it is what they do with it. Lack of fear means overconfidence, which usually sets you up for failure. That are you are a complete sociopath.
If you are a naturally fearful person, no amount of training is going to change you getting scared. What it will do is help you harness that and not let it paralyze you.
But reality is, even with all the best training in the world, some people are just not wired that way period. You have some of the most extensive combat training available, and you still have elite level soldiers that freeze when faced with actual battle for the first time.
I have seen guys who were AMAZING in the gym or dojo, who go into a fight, tournament or match and suddenly freeze up or dramatically underperform.
So sure, you can train to give yourself the best possible chance in those scenarios. But no art, no training methodology is a gaurantee at success.
To be good at fighting requires you to constantly fight people better than you. You essentially have to get good at getting beat up, and then learning past there.
And with that, doesn't mean that you are willing to take on people twice your size. It just means your skill should let you take an unskilled opponent twice your size or at least give you the best advantage.
Anyone telling your otherwise is trying to sell you something or has an unrealistic expectation.
Some people will always be wired for "flight" during a fight or flight response. No matter how much training they do.
Find a style that fits you. -There are as many styles as body types, and people have varying body mechanics, so one art may fit much better than another art, depending on the person.
After you find the style, train hard in it. Do a lot of drills and bag/pad work. And spar. Spar a lot. The best way to learn to fight is by fighting as KW says.
Oh brother here we go again. He asked the best way to learn enough skills to fight, which of course is practice and time training as there can be no other way, but here we are hearing about KM AGAIN...Every answer is the same thing. Its the be all and end all of martial arts.. Talk about Fan boy stuff WOW..
The answer tto your question Bruce is Not to go to one particular sttyle over another. It is about finding a style and training hard, it is about spending time on the mats and learning how to defend yourself. Nothing can compensate for time training.
Being fearless is not a good attribute to have because fear will keep you alive, Fear is what mechanisms the brains fight or flight response and what teaches us to be safe and use caution. without this then you are heading into a dead end street alley with multiple attackers with weapons behind you because u r not afraid..
Find a proper training center that teaches just that...how to fight, A quality Mixed Martial Arts school, or Krav Maga center will give you the best well rounded training for competitive and street combat. The major difference between competitive MMA and Krav training is competitive MMA will not necessarily teach you the more critical or lethal techniques that may be required to survive a life threatening situation.
And before people come on here and start bad mouthing Krav Maga, remember, the quality of training is in the quality of the instructor. You will find good and bad instructors in any system you choose to train in, it's up to you to do your "homework and decide which school and system best suit your goals.
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Edit: Hello Shaeeck, nice to see you here. Since this post I think we talked out some of our differences. I appreciate you clearing some of those things up with me. ( KM RULES!) LOL : ) (deep bow in respect)
i agree with keyboard warior, you must hard work train and learn, and you have to try how good you are in real fighting but before you can try to sparing in your dojo
how do you get enough skills in fighting that you are able to take on a guy twice your size or beat up 2+ guys at the same and just be absolutely fearless in the face of any opponent?
