Many martial arts take years of training to truly be proficient. If you want a ‘quick’ way to at least be respectable, Krav Maga is a good option. Another that you can get up to speed relatively quickly in is SCARS, it’s a bit obscure, but it was created for military (as was Krav Maga) use. You don’t want to fight, you want to devastate quickly.
I once saw a video of a man aged 35 who picked up archery, and decided to become a combat archer based on military writings from the ancient persian empire. It involves insane acrobatics and offensive attack - not at all lile a line of archers shooting from behind infantry lines - and in a short time he went from 0 to Parthian Hero in a couple of years. That opened my eyes to the possibility of learning anything with enough dedication.
True anything can be learned for the dedicated student. I was just pointing out that Krav Maga and SCARS can be very devastating with very little training. They both BEGIN with deadly and incapacitating fundamental movements. They require very little fitness or strength. And there is no requirement for complex movements. These were/are military systems where immediate incapacitating/deadly results are necessary.
But if these moves are so deadly, can you practice them at full speed/force? Learning how to perform a technique is not the same as successfully applying it in an actual struggle.
Many martial arts take years of training to truly be proficient. If you want a ‘quick’ way to at least be respectable, Krav Maga is a good option. Another that you can get up to speed relatively quickly in is SCARS, it’s a bit obscure, but it was created for military (as was Krav Maga) use. You don’t want to fight, you want to devastate quickly.
I once saw a video of a man aged 35 who picked up archery, and decided to become a combat archer based on military writings from the ancient persian empire. It involves insane acrobatics and offensive attack - not at all lile a line of archers shooting from behind infantry lines - and in a short time he went from 0 to Parthian Hero in a couple of years. That opened my eyes to the possibility of learning anything with enough dedication.
True anything can be learned for the dedicated student. I was just pointing out that Krav Maga and SCARS can be very devastating with very little training. They both BEGIN with deadly and incapacitating fundamental movements. They require very little fitness or strength. And there is no requirement for complex movements. These were/are military systems where immediate incapacitating/deadly results are necessary.
But if these moves are so deadly, can you practice them at full speed/force? Learning how to perform a technique is not the same as successfully applying it in an actual struggle.