TT,
I read back over your post, and I couldn't resist adding:
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My first response is what the hell do multiple opponents or guns have to do with MMA?
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Nothing.
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Not a damn thing except they're against the rules so you just agreed with me that MMA doesn't prepare you for them.
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Right.
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And you can't deny they are a realistic expectation in a self defense situation.
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Can't and
wouldn't.
None of that was ever in dispute. The point many of us are trying (apprently without any success at all) to make is that while it's a good and prudent thing to expect and prepare for multiple attackers and guns and knives and H-Bombs, more often than not, it's just you and some punkass drunk or some random idiot with ruffled feathers, posturing to look good in front of his girl/friends/whatever. There are a lot more times when self-defense is a matter of minimal force than there are when it's lethal. In those situations...the majority of them...the tools and methods of martial sports have a lot of merit.
Besides: They're a lot of fun!
Okay, sorry. Back to the question I asked before, which was:
If sparring, sports, and other forms of "mutally agreed competitive play-fighting" are incapable of preparing one for reality, then how do you go about preparing people for reality?
Certainly you aren't suggesting that they go get in gun fights to learn about guns, knife fights to learn about knives, and mass brawls to learn about mass attack, are you?