I was training the other day on a technique that would probably land you in court on a GBH charge when one student said something along the lines of:
“You couldn’t use this on the street. You’d get busted for sure for malicious damage to somebody and end up in jail. I don’t like training the really violent stuff”.
To which the other student replied:
“Yeah, I don’t think Wing Chun is politically correct, but I’d rather have it to defend me than a politician!”
Nowadays, it’s better not to be tried by 12 or carried by 6.
The legal system will lock you up and throw away the key and sap your $$$ as you try to prove the difficult defense of self-defense. And being a martial artist means you are held to a higher standard of control than a normal citizen.
does anyone really ever wait for the cops to show up? I always hear about how the book will be thrown at you because your a martial artist but in the numerous street fights I was in as a younger man the police never became involved because all parties (at least those still concious ) were looong gone by the time the Man arrived.
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