Budo and Self Defense

What we have to remember is that most Budo is not designded for self defence for todays setting. Many Budo, also called Martial Arts, come from a military setting, and thusly they where designed for the battlefield. This is not what is needed for self defence today.

Some of the modern Budo has been modified to BETTER be suited for self defence, but very often there are still elements in these Budo which are not suitable for self defence, and sometimes they might even be directly unsuitable for it.

I can only recomend you to ONE site if you are interrested in self defence for the streets, and that is the site of Mark and Dianna MacYoung. I don't think that I have seen one site with so much real content as that in relation to self defence on the street.

Their context is of course the USA, but most of the stuff there I think apply world wide. It is a site with strategies for survival on the streets.