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by paublyrne 2876 days ago
My old karate club used to and I'm sure still does run self defense courses twice a year, partially as a way to get new members. One of the instructors used to repeat the same mantra at every course, echoing the old master Gichin Funakoshi, that the best defense is always to be somewhere else.
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Our Sifu at Kung Fu when demonstrating the 'best defence' would run as fast as he could out of the kwoon. It got some laughs but he was deadly serious!