Thread:Demotivator/@comment-26484417-20171025101948/@comment-26484417-20171115171132

Actually, most of what I say are my own concerns, it greatly differs from person to person, and today's world allows you to live in relative safety--basically never requiring you to defend yourself in the real world. Moreover, if you wish to merely learn how to defend yourself, self-defence courses are much better choice; those courses take one or more martial arts and strip it of anything one might deem superfluous in a situation where you're being attacked.

Therefore, while some people start practicing martial arts because of their desire to defend themselves, most people who continue the practice actually care for quite something else; usually it's the martial art in question, but sometime it's the culture behind the martial art, or maybe the very notion of "art" (e.g., some people really enjoy the choreography of katas), etc. Of course, if you practice for a long time and advance enough, you're going to reach a level where you can defend yourself, but in martial arts it takes way more time than in self-defence courses--or even in martial sports (e.g., boxing).

Well, as we have already covered, people are essentially glass butter knives, so assuming "average" attacker and defender; my opinion is that one can take lots of hits to legs and arms (unless you get hit directly into the joint), a couple of hits to the core (except solar plexus), and one or very few hits to the head. Naturally, if the disparity between the attacker and defender grows larger, these numbers are going to shift to reflect that. All in all, I prefer evasion--both in the real world and in games. =)

PS: Not sure if your DPMO face can do the trick, though. Let me know what happens if you ever get to try it. =P