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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
My 20 years as a Master At Arms taught me that people who view fighting as a sport (a game) tend to get into them more often than the people who view fighting as self defense. People who train with weapons typically think fighting includes these things and as such tend to avoid them far more often than people who view fighting as a sport.
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I think that's probably the smartest thing anyone has said in this goofy assed post so far...because I think that it is the main distinction. Putting megalomaniacal, ego-inflated sport fighters aside...training sport fighting (i.e. boxing, judo, jiu jitsu, etc etc etc) DOES add more (high percentage) tools to your arsenal, helps you prepare physically and mentally for the realities of a fight.
Self Defense people ("self defense" is probably a misnomer) sometimes train full contact, and sometimes can prepare their adherents to the realities of ACTUAL combat...but for the most part they are blow hard arm-chair warriors just spouting out their personal philosophies.
Somewhere in between is probably a nugget of golden truth.