Low risk of serious injuries It’s useful for actually defending yourself
IANAMA,² but I think these are incompatible goals: IIRC most traditional martial arts are nearly useless in real-world situations and stuff like MMA is quite dangerous.
Designing a martial art that’s good at both goals is a hard problem. I don’t know whether anyone solved that problem.
I don’t think it’s insolvable in principle.
Fair point—Sonnon has a substantial martial arts background, but I hadn’t registered that he might not be teaching martial arts. On the the hand, he’s selling martial arts DVDs.
Designing a martial art that’s good at both goals is a hard problem. I don’t know whether anyone solved that problem. I don’t think it’s insolvable in principle.
Scott Sonnon has put a lot of work into combining effective martial arts with low risk of injury. I don’t know how successful he’s been.
The website that the link leads to may have been hacked—there are a bunch of very suspicious vietnamese-looking links at the bottom.
Other than that, I saw a fitness/training system there, not a martial art.
Fair point—Sonnon has a substantial martial arts background, but I hadn’t registered that he might not be teaching martial arts. On the the hand, he’s selling martial arts DVDs.