You need to train consistently. Some seminar every so often isn’t really going to stick.
In all those sports, you practice/drill moves before you spar.
Not sure what your point is here. Yes, a typical session is warm up/conditioning, technique/drilling, positional training (full speed) then sparring full speed. Live sparring is usually half of the total time.
Day in day out.
How similar is that to real criminal violence?
These arts are great for one on one, no weapons. I’ve never claimed otherwise.
But to answer your question the best I can do is we go hard. I can tell you this, plenty of people can kick my ass but it won’t be easy.
In other words, do you ever drill scenarios - including noncooperative ones - where you are assaulted similar to a criminal mugging which is often many on one and/or one guy armed with a gun or a knife?
Because of training for years in combat sports I am accurately aware of the fact that if someone wants to rob me and has a gun or knife I’ll most likely give them whatever they want
even if I’m carrying a gun.
I have little interest in shooting someone. And again this comes from (firearms) training. Consistent regular training.
And in the firearms training we do go through many different possible scenarios.
If you think you’re weekend seminar in the SPEAR system would make any difference then you are delusional.
Even in a case of social violence, let's say you try to work some groundfighting techniques on a guy who's assaulted you and his girlfriend simply runs up and sticks a knife in you? Would you say your years of getting punched and choked on the ground would've been better than learning how to recognize and diffuse the signs of escalating social violence beforehand? Do they teach such things at your school?
1. I’m not going to the ground if at all possible. This is why wrestling is important. Gives you the ability to stay on your feet.
2. we can make up all kinds of different scenarios that are virtually impossible to train for. That being said, being acutely aware of your vulnerabilities (another thing that daily training accomplishes) while also being extremely confident in your strengths is a not so surprising way to avoid getting in street fights.
In your opinion, is the military wasting its time on combatives training as part of its basic training, even if that training is not regular or even if it's done only once in basic training?
ive never been in the military and can only share with you what I’ve been told by the numerous training partners who have...
...all of them have said that they thought the combatives training was really good until they started doing Jiu jitsu. Then they realized it was useless.
Is no training better than some training if it's not going to be practiced regularly?
Sometimes “some training” can give people a false sense of invincibility and in those cases I’d say not training at all is probably better.
The women I know who train with us get into it because they want to be able to defend themselves and for most of them what they really learn is just how utterly defenseless they really are against bigger, stronger men.
there are “women’s self defense” classes out there that, combined with totally unrealistic depictions in movies and tv, give women an overinflated sense of their ability to fend off an attacker
And that is extremely valuable.
That is also my own personal take away from regular consistent training. I’m acutely aware of just how defenseless I really am.
This is really the bottom line here. The best thing a person can have is a realistic understanding of their fragility. Regular hard sparring in combat sports is the best way to get that.