Martial arts and Self Defense

I just read "Meditations on Violence" by Rory Miller.

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He gave 3 reasons why martial arts is useless for self defense:

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1. adrenaline is an equalizer, it will make you forget all your martial arts training and make you lose your fine motor skills, he also says clearly in the book that you CANNOT train to nullify this effect (many people will make the argument that sparring will make you immune to this in a real fight, apparently that's BS and from my limited experience I can confirm that), this means that 2 individuals of equal strength and fitness, one a martial artist and one who isn't, would have equal chances in a life or death self-defense situation.
2. Martial arts have a ruleset that will lessen your chances of survival: you learn to fight within a confined set of situations that create unrealistic expectations, this will work against you in a real situation because for example you're going to try and use your limited moveset of sport techniques (that will become bordeline useless due to the adrenaline) instead of just biting or tearing your opponent's ears off and gouging their eyes out, or doing whatever else comes instinctively to survive when there is no option to run and your life is on the line.
3. it creates a false sense of confidence, you might think you'd be able to fight someone because of your training, but that training all goes out the window in a real life situation and your false confidence is useless compared to the primal instinct of a cornered victim who isn't used to a ruleset and is going all out to protect himself or his loved ones.

Of course there is benefit in MA training, you get in shape and you get stronger, but I'm thinking it might be better to focus on calithenics and running instead, or gymnastics, that way you won't create unrealistic expectations, false confidence, limited moveset (fighting "technically correct" vs just doing what you have to to survive).

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Any thoughts on this?

Submitted November 06, 2021 at 05:04AM by Agreeable-Factor-771 https://ift.tt/3mLmxSN