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Originally Posted by Adam Welch
I'd like to take some classes if I can find a good instructor close by.
I've done 3 months of kung fu, 1 month of tai chi, and taken only 2 grappling classes.
I don't want to break bones, I just want to stun the heck out of them, without giving them any injury that won't heal within 1 week.
I also want it to be realistic as a self defense towards all types of people, big or small.
I'd like to find something that I could do twice a week progress to where I had more confidence and felt a little more safe in new orleans, in a period of 6 months.
Do most fights seriously end up on the ground? Should I just train grappling? Judo? Ju jitsu? Hapkido? Muy Thai?
I mean, MMA isn't really realistic as far as street because I have to be able to defend against nut kicks and eye gouges and biting.
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In six months at 2 times a week for the results your looking: your best bet would be to take a self defense oriented class that will teach you how to use pepper spray or a taser (depending on the legality of carrying them in your area). Those are two options that you can learn in fairly short time and both are relatively non-lethal. Combine this with learning how to run and you'll be ok.
On the non-weapons level I'd suggest taking a self defense oriented class that teaches you to hit the person quick combined with getting out of the situation (i.e. running). This might involve hurting the person to various degrees.
Anything else is going to involve more then 6 months and/or will probably involve causing some type of damage to the other person that will take longer then a week to heal.
Even training for a long time wont allow you to end every self defense encounter with the other person not getting hurt, what it should do is give you a continnuum of possible responses to choose from, allowing you to pick the least violent to end the situation (which wont always involve not hurting the other person).