To provide more practical self-defense, many late day martial arts schools now adoption a combination of martial arts styles and techniques, and will often customize self-defense training to suit the participants' lifestyles, occupations, age groups and gender. The habitude of combining martial arts styles for competitive sport is most often referred to as Mixed Martial Arts or MMA.
Awareness Self Defense is defending yourself by avoiding crisis altogether by thinking ahead, or controlling bully decisions. Examples include parking in a well-lit area, not wearing measure headphones while jogging (so you can applicability your sense of sense to pay engrossment to your surroundings), or looking under your car/in the backseat before entering to ensure there is no one waiting for you.