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Ive spent some time as of late perusing the websites of karate and martial arts friends and brethren and a few strangers, and Ive noticed an emerging trend.   That trend is to redefine arts and school curricula in terms of combat effectiveness in all situations.   In order to do this, many have taken to combining skill sets from various disciplines.   On one site, a senior instructor with a red belt must be pretty high up there explains on a video how his art combines karate strikes and kicks, judo throws, jujitsu joint locks, and jiu jutsu ground techniques to attain a complete fighting art.   This seems to be an increasingly popular method of training.   Now, let me clearly state that there is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach.   Nor is it new I visited schools in the eighties that had similar syllabi.   I do believe that the proliferation of MMA as a sport has awakened a desire for martial artists to round out their game, so to speak.   Again, theres nothing wrong with that.   For effective self defense, one must possess skills at all ranges of engagement and in all types of situations.   Whats interesting about such proclamations is the assertion that arts such as jujitsu and its cousin aikijitsu dont contain strikes or that karate doesnt contain grappling techniques.   In fact, when one researches the historical development of these combative martial or civil arts, one finds that they were originally complete systems with inclusive arsenols of percussive and leverage based techniques.   What separated them from one another wasnt the techniques they contained but rather the strategies they employed.   Take jujitsu for example.   Jujitsu was the hand to hand combative system used by samurai on the field of battle.   Certain techniques such as atemi waza striking technique were of less value against an armor wearing opponent than say nage waza throwing technique or shime waza choking technique.   Likewise, ne waza ground technique was not extnsively trained, for what more vulnerable situation is there for a warrior than a grappling match on the ground when there are spear weilding mounted cavalry about  In addition, professional warriors always carry backup weapons.   Would you advise a juji gatame cross body arm lock against someone with a knife in their boot  This does not mean jujitsu did not contain strikes.   On the contrary, jujitsu originally made judicious use of strikes to off balance and set up ones opponent for throws and kansetsu waza joint attacking technique.   Similarly, ne waza was certainly practiced, but not for the purpose of submitting ones opponent as much as for getting back to ones feet or for drawing an edged weapon to finish the fight.   On the other hand, the Okinawan art that evolved into karate was a civil self protection art developed by aristocrats in a society where personal weapons of any kind were prohibited.   This required a mindset and considerations entriely different from those of a soldier at war.   The dominant strategy was to defend against all kinds of attacks, e. So why have these systems become identified solely by the techniques favored by their primary strategies  Why today do some schools of jujitsu and karate feel it necessary to mix and borrow to become more combat effective  I feel there are two reasons.   The first is art ificationsport ification.   As the Japanese martial arts became a popular worldwide obsession, their identities became more narrowly focused on non survival objectives such as self development and competition.   Both of these pursuits favor specialization.   For instance, judoka naturally spend most of their time working on nage waza throwing technique since thats the primary way to score points in a judo match.   The other reason has to do with the strategy based training methodologies of the systems.   Japanese style pedagogy is strictly structured so that students achieve high levels of proficiency in fundamentals before going on to learn more extraneous skills.   Fundamentals are the skills that most directly enable the core strategy of the system.   In jujitsu, its the throws, chokes, and devastating joint destroying attacks that enabled the samurai to defeat enemy soldiers in combat.    In karate, close quarter blocks, traps, and strikes offer the best protection against a thug trying to steal your money. Too often, practitioners learn only the fundamental levels before going on to start schools and teach students of their own.   They simply never become proficient with the supplemental techniques of their art.   They, in essence, become specialists, not complete fighters.   Make no mistake about it real combat punishes specialists.   A thorough examination of karate shows that it contains a plethora of choking, throwing, joint locking, and ground fighting techniques secondary to and in support of the primary strategic emphasis on striking.   Ironically, eclectic schools that purport incorporating skills from other arts do so at the expense of a unifying core strategy.   They might very well come to identify a strategic preference for dealing with violent assaults and eventually allow the less important skills to deteriorate to a point of non existence.   Its at this point that they may identify their short comings and, once again, begin looking outside their art for help, thus starting the cycle over again.   True classical or traditional arts taught by informed instructors contain everything you need for self defense.   Whats the take away  Simple.   When shopping for a school that offers effective, practical solutions to real violent encounters, try to identify if the instructors 1 recognize the need for all categories of offensive and defensive skills at every range of combat and 2 can describe their core strategy for self protection not simply a preference for kicking or grappling.