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>First, look around your area at what styles are even available. No point setting your heart on Judo if no one teaches it in your area.
>Once you know what's in your area, you choose between them based on which one has sparring and which one you like the people at. Better to learn Taekwondo at a place you like than not learn MMA because you hate the MMA people and place.
True enough.
>Third, self defense is honestly not a great reason to learn martial arts.
I heavily disagree.
>A good amount of self-defense occurs before punches start flying
Yes, but that's not a reason to not learn how to fight.
>I've never seen a calf kick in a street fight, but you'll see them all the time in MMA, because they're pretty different contexts.
I have, here's my unwanted anecdote, A guy we'll call fighter A was once approached by two people who are the "never took martial arts but just see red" type (they approached him over a jersey, I think they cheered different American Football teams), anyways one of the guys swung a punch at fighter A's face and fighter A gave that guy a calf kick, then the second aggressor approached fighter A and he gave a teep kick that pushed the guy backwards into the ground. After one aggressor got some pain in his calf and the second one was on the ground, they decided to swallow their pride and walk away while yelling and insulting fighter A. I'd never seen such a miracle before, two troublemakers seeing reason and walking away. It might've been the kicks, or it might've been that fact that fighter A was unfazed after getting punched, but the aggressors left.

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