Modern martial arts are a sport now and hence very few females look at it as a fitness option. It’s not a girl kind of thing to kick, punch, lock, throw, and wrestle. Being a ‘weaker gender’, she is entitled to protection. So self-defence and defence is for you, guys…
I have been practicing martial arts as a sport with the knowledge that they have a ‘bonus’ of being useful for self-defense – if the need arises. But this is because I love martial arts. I do not say girls cannot do it. My point is that sparring and combat is unnatural for girls and there never will be a 50-50% male-female ratio in martial art/self-defence schools.
Moreover, short-term/introductory self-defence training may even be dangerous for girls because it gives them nothing at all apart from some false confidence of using techniques that would not work in a real life situation and potentially endangering their lives.
