Use

No martial art works if you don’t use it. Self-defense workshops aren’t real, police and military defensive tactics aren’t real, no one off or short-term training is real. Not because the techniques are invalid, but because if you have not relentlessly practiced the skills, when you run into someone who’s resisting, anything you have flies out the window. In order to be effective, especially as a smaller or less physically dominant person you must practice, and as a community, we have to stop selling people otherwise.