What sort of martial arts do you practice in and why? Judo? Karate?
Educating yourself in self defence seems very useful especially if you live in parts of a country that might be rough.
I’d like to get into it myself but I can’t hear well, I can lip read however. Did some boxing when I was very young but it was only practice on training bags : )
Kung Fu students and masters alike, let me know your wisdom!
Not all martial arts are unarmed. HEMA generally works around some kind of sword, long knife or spear.
Of course, that does mean you need to carry an arming sword of halberd around, which is rather frowned upon in polite company.