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After training in several different martial arts styles, I feel like I’m not really learning what I want to know to protect myself in a street fight. I want to learn to fight dirty and use EVERY weapon in my arsenal to quickly devastate my opponent. Such as, eye gouging, biting someones nose off, ripping someones ear off and other tactics designed to quickly and completely destroy an opponents will to fight, rather than learning how to punch, kick and submit an opponent, which is pretty much what most forms of martial arts teach today. Any thoughts?

I was watching a martial arts film the other day and seeing this guy do some really good moves like back flips and really high flying kicks. I do some martial arts workouts at home but i’m wanting to be really good at it like that soon. How long will it take and is it ok to train at home or do i need to go to classes as well? Because no one will go with me at the moment and i’m embarrassed to go on my own being a girl.

I love teaching tai chi chuan, kung fu and karate. I do not run the school from the gym, but from home facilities in West Midlands instead and it works well. However I do think I need more students but my worry is that group classes you have to do much cheaper and cannot give the personal guidance you can in a 1-2-1 session. If I reduce my hour fee (£20) and do group classes is it going to be worth it? I wish I could teach for free but modern teachers of martial arts need to pay bills too! Right now I have two regular students who, because of their hard work and training are improving, and at a rate faster than what they would do in a group session. Ideally, I would like eight students but maybe I have to do group classes – but for that I must rent a hall. I am someone who has trained very hard for over 20 years and have a lot of knowledge to share, so do I do group classes more than 1-2-1 classes, or less?