Is my self defense too much?

Question

I feel afraid sometimes beacuse i know that if i put enough force into my moves, i could injur or kill someone. i am responsaible with my karate, but i still get afraid because i could potentailly kill someone if i put enough force into it. what should i do?

Answer 1

What you should do is make sure you don't put yourself into situations where you might have to use your Karate.

Your a killing machine and you don't want to hurt and/or kill anyone. If you do you could end up going to jail and/or sued even if they deserved it. The law is not fair! You defend yourself and your the one standing trial!

Answer 2

No you don't really think that. You claim it's too much because you're actually afaird to fight because you're unconfidient about your ability. I use to be exactly same way until some time in Muay Thai. I finally stop say "I'm too dangerous" I simply start to think "well if anyone want to mess with me, go ahead bring it on" I've seen this situtation so many time that I'm convinced this is a very normal process.

Don't worry about hurt someone, you'll be amazed by how tough a human body are. It's not like human will shatter like a china at touch. It take a LOT to really hurt someone badly. Unless I put on a lock, but that's different story.

Yes you'll hear whole bulIshit about knock nose "bone" into brain, kill by punch to throat, etc... But it doesn't exactly work as people claim it to. I've got kicked in side of neck hard and all happened was I got knocked out cold. Throat are like a sponge, so if somene hit you in throat, it'll simply pop back in place instead of broke. Hard punch to chest, that's stupid! If it's actually that easy to hit someone chest hard to shatter sternum and hit the heart, then there'll be thousands of death in football every year. No way you will be able to hit harder than a 250 lbs man full of muscles charging at another man like a train. Even with chest guard on, the football player still hit WAY harder than a barehand could hit a chest.

So get over the fear and if you think you're too dangerous, GET OUT OF YOUR GYM!!!! Find new one! Thinking you're too dangerous is a sign you're in a gym where the instructor doesn't know a thing he's teaching and you're most likely reciving piss poor lesson.

Answer 3

What should you do? You should keep training. This is a stage which passes with time. In the meantime, train. While you're training, two things will happen.

First, as you accumulate training experience, you'll discover that it's fiendishly hard to even knock the wind out of someone who's trying to do the same to you, let alone kill him with your bare hands.
If you're honest, you'll have those moments in sparring when you realize that you just gave your partner your best shot; you lost control and you weren't pulling it at all, and it didn't hardly phase her, let alone kill her.
True, some people have been killed with one punch. Some people have been struck by lightning, too. There's no call to treat the freakishly unusual as normal. You're training to cultivate that ability, but it's harder than you think, and although it doesn't *have* to take a long time, the standard training regimen for civilians is designed to take a while. My guess is, it will take longer to develop than you've guessed.

Second, you'll begin to reorient your philosophy. Being able to kill someone who is assaulting you is not something to be afraid of, it's something to be glad that you can do. You need to think through when you're willing to do that, and when you're not. There's a link below to an essay that will give you a good start in the right direction. It's primarily talking about self-defense with a firearm, but lethal force is lethal force, and the same considerations apply to you. Besides, once you've worked out how *hard* unarmed combat is, you may decide to start carrying a weapon; might as well start thinking it through now.

And in the meantime, train.

Answer 4

I feel the exact same way, but for some reason i keep getting better and more efficient at hurting people. That is why disipline is such an important part of martial arts, it is also up to the sensei or coach or whatever type of instructor you have to refuse to teach people of poor moral structure, they have this right to only teach martial arts to those that are appreciative of it's potential power and to turn down anyone they deem would use it innapropriately.
So being afraid of your power is a good thing to an extent, it means you probably won't hurt someone seriously unless it is in a real situation where instinct will kick in and everything slows down and you move without thought. You will always have enough control to stop yourself, don't be too concerned, just remember your safty over his if it comes to a life threatening situation and don't fool around with it for fun. They have rules in place in dojos for reasons, follow them and you should be fine.

Answer 5

You have to be very strong to kill an average human being.
You can break bones and knock someone out but I don't think you're good enough to kill someone.
Unless you use submissions(neck break), but that'll be intentional.
But I did nearly kill someone by punching them in the face area or the stomach. Use kicks so that person can't stand up.

Answer 6

If you were skilled enough to kill someone you would not be asking this question because part of your skills would be control.
Injury beyond intention could occur however, even when you play a game. When you will have to defend your self, just do it.
Keep on training. Don't listen to the people who play it smart here.

Answer 7

If force is how you are doing it, you need more practice.


Learning dangerous moves, especially in your situation is a way of making yourself face the reality of your skill.

Any person that is going to attack you in the future is going to attack you anyways. It's better if you train now and get the skills and face the problem. It's a problem many other martial artists have faced in their time.

For every moment we put off our development, we or someone we love and care for will suffer in the future.

Be strong and train hard. I am confident that you will be responsible and master your art.

Answer 8

If someone attacks you, hit them as hard as you can. If it injures them, too bad they shouldn't have atttacked you.

And killing someone with a punch or kick happens only in like 1 in a million cases. Watch a MMA fight and see how many kicks and punches a person can take from men who weigh over 200 LBS before getting knocked out. Killing someone like that is harder than it sounds.

Answer 9

There is only one reason to attack an opponent, and that is to stop them from attacking you. If you are affraid, it means that you don't have enough confidence in your training. You should speak to your sensai about that. If he is unable or unwilling to help you, then you need to find another dojo. Obviously, all of us who train in any martial art have the ability to injur or even kill someone.

I worry more that you feel you are put in situations where you need to use your skills at all, let alone with any degree of force. If you are talking about sparring, then you shouldn't be affraid. If your instructor doesn't allow you to spar at full speed, then you shouldn't spar at all. If your sparring partners aren't skilled enough to defend themselves against your attacks, then you need to seek out higher ranked sparring partners.

The worst thing though is for you to be afraid of your skills. If you are afraid to use them, you will hesitate and if you hesitate, it may be you that is injured or killed. I'd be more afraid of that.

Good luck.

Answer 10

Well it sounds as though you have a fear with your ability to control your techniques. So when you're training, you might want to try controlling the power and speed of your technique.

with practice in training, you'll better your control, but that's what you want; to control your technique.

try throwing your technique and then stopping it just before you hit the target, if you hit it you didn't have enough control to stop the attack from connecting (the object is NOT to hit the target, but pull the power and speed of the technique back to guage your ability to stop or slow your technique) and therefore should continue until you can do it.

The closer you can get to the target without hitting it is practicing your ability to stop the technique should something happen.

the chance of getting hurt especially in practice is always there, but that's why you practice, to learn the control of what you've learned.

Answer 11

We all have to be responsible with our actions. Continue until you see a safe exit away from situation. I don't like to hurt others, but I am a strong believer in Karma. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.