When training martial arts do you think the most important is attacking or defending?

When I train martial arts that the most important skill is to be able to protect myself as best as I can. The attacking is also important as the tequnic has to be strong and powerful (espeically for women and children) but I have found what has really helped me is to focus on being very fast and light on my feet. As well as blocking really strong and fast. I know that there are men who have a lot of power behind them than women but some men have been such bullies (and some do it for the wrong reason) as it is there to learn to defend and not attack. The art is for SELF DEFENSE AND NOT TO SHOW OFF. What do you think?

When training martial arts do you think the most important is attacking or defending?
Martial Arts is based on the principal of self-defence. So obviously defence is the most important, the main objective is to avoid physical conflict as much as possible and only resort to attacking if needed or if the attacker won't back off.


Like you said "Martial arts is for Self-defence and not to show off"
Reply:Both are important, but I think attacking is more important in martial arts. If you lay back and let the opponent dictate his terms, even while defending great, you will definitely lose on scores, and look like a wuss. Besides, in some MA, like Judo, you get penalties for going s amount of seconds without trying some attack.
Reply:Attacking. I do Krav and even our defenses are considered an attack.
Reply:defense, because if you can't pull off a proper attack, your opponent will take advantage of that. By having the best defence, you can protect yourself from any attack and learn to strike when you see your opponent doing a mistake. Attacking puts you in a much more dangerous situation.
Reply:Look, the main purpose of martial arts is to defend yourself or more correctly put: preventing someone else from imposing their will upon (or dominating) you. that goes for the mental/spiritual as well as the physical. now after having said that, let me quote someone else. "the best defense is a good offense." and it's true, if you have exhausted all of your options and you are forced to physically defend yourself from an attacker, past the initial contact where you parry or dodge the first attempt to harm you, you must be effective, quick and aggressive with your counter attack to decisively end/resolve the aggression being directed towards you. this is definitely "attack" not purely "defense". otherwise you could stand there all night trying to parry and dodge until he gets a "lucky one" in on you and then who will be the victim? honestly, they are both part of the same coin and until you learn to embrace the yin with the yang, you will be an incomplete martial artist.
Reply:Your focus should be on defense.


If you are injured by a strike this will hamper your ability to mount an offense.





To sum it up........Focus on "Defense %26amp; Counter Strike"


(Don't back off till you are out of danger)
Reply:the best defense is a good offense.
Reply:I think you should have said "Offense" or "Defense." You're implying that you can't attack with defense, when the reality is: You can. Hence terms like "Defensive-Counter." You can't bring strength and power in this either, because those are just elements of fitness: They can help you in either case, whether it's a hard block, a strong counter punch, or an offensive kick.





They're both really important though. It's hard for me to decide, but when having both: I think defense is just a little more important. That includes blocks, dodges (Slips, parries, and so forth), countering, and so on, which are really important. If you have no defense: That might mean you don't have the ability to block, dodge, or counter, or maybe not even be able to take just one good hit, which is really important.





Not that offense isn't important, but when it comes to self-defense: You're trying to escape, or subdue at best. Hopefully you don't harm your opponent, but it could happen. You might do a jointlock that breaks a wrist, but police officers might use that to restrain someone, rather than maiming them, and so on.





It really depends on a lot of things, but that's what works for me. There was only one art where I didn't take a more defensive-counter strategy (I did when I started Tae Kwon Do, because I learned some boxing beforehand, but that stopped soon), but that counter time is usually when I start throwing combos. I do need to become more offensive, but I'm looking for balance more than how much power my is in my best combo.





Balance is good, but defense is definitely important. Just punch, kick, jab, poke, choke, throw, and get out of there. Maybe you have to wait for your opponent to react to you: If you sparred those techniques with contact and resistance, then BIG DEAL! lol
Reply:It depends on your goal for training in the first place. If you're training for self defense then defending is more important than attacking since survival is the goal and not necessarily crushing your opponent. But if you're training for a fight or competition, then obviously, attacking is more important since your goal is to beat your opponent or win points. No attack means no points and just blocking or avoiding your opponent's attacks won't win you a match.
Reply:defence is the key. if you are challeging an oponent with strong skills, how would you counter-attack. the best thing to focus on is how to defend youself from most,if not all forms of attack. Not withstandind,learning how to attack is also beneficial

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