I know this a mostly gun-centric forum, but a lot of you guys have done ECQC and some pretty impressive unarmed combatives courses. With the aftermath of the Zimmerman case, I've been considering what I would have done, and it all boils down to "If I could reach my gun, and an unarmed guy was on top of me, I'd probably be able to sweep him off his mount and maybe flip the tables." I've trained some in Judo, but I really want to increase my skills. I live in Illinois, so that also means that nearly every other business I'm in has The Sign out front.
What styles do you train? Do you train for groundfighting or do you avoid being taken down as much as possible? Is your philosophy when you walk out the door to immobilize an assailant and hold them or to injure them and escape? If you want to share personal experience, you may. My experience pretty much started when I got my booty whooped by a boxer who showed up to the local YMCA "kerotty" class to do some sparring. Showed up some pretty serious flaws in technique and the realization was "Hey, I got what I paid for, but I didn't pay to get my booty whupped."