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For me, it's martial arts safety vs practical application. There are things you just don't risk in practice, because you're going to get fucked and not practice anymore.

What martial art could that possibly be? Krav Maga, where they teach how to gauge out someone's eyes, and stab them with a knife?

All that stuff is pretty non-practical anyhow, because anything you can't truly practice, you wont be able to implement in a real situation.

In Jiujitsu, Wrestling, Boxing, Muay Thai and other practical martial arts there really isn't anything you can't actually practice -- you practice all of it. Which is why if you know these thing and you get into a real altercation, you can usually execute them pretty flawlessly, especially against an untrained opponent.

Something like Aikido is never going to work, because its not practical at all, which is why its not practiced as such -- there is no way to practically practice a "zen" or "fitness" martial arts, because thats not what it was created to do.