The smart ass

Every martial arts practitioner one day in his life will encounter a smart ass that will say "martial arts are no good for fighting in the street. It's all bullshit".

I've encountered many of those and my answer always was "well you'll never know until you fight with one" and I always get the cold stare in return.

Then I start to reason with them by asking them these questions:

1- Have you ever heard about a Martial artists, even a rookie, that got his ass whopped by a non-martial artists?

2- Do you honestly believe that someone who is training 3 times a week on how to defend himself will be bitch slapped by a non-trainer so to speak?

Certainly there are some factors that stand against martial artists in a street fight which are:

1- Fear. No matter how much a martial artist train and how hard, his training is for nothing if he can't get the fear of getting whopped out of his system. realistically speaking, they are very rare and chances of you encountering them are very slim.

2- Massive body build difference. Like when the martial artist is very petite and the other guy is very large. Here the odds are against our little Bruce Lee but if he is smart enough, he can exploit the big body build of his opponent to his advantage.

Bottom line, one should always stay out of trouble because this is the smartest thing to do and anyone who is cocky enough to think that he can beat a martial artist just think, who can do any random thing better, the one who is trained to do it, or the one who got himself into a situation where has to do it?