In the olden martial arts training days and in some martial arts clubs there is still a tunnel vision. This vision is focused only on their style of martial arts training not opening up to the different arts out there in our society. This vision needs to be changed in our modern day training methods.
Going to the ground has become the way to fight. It is not recommended to go to the ground for grappling in real life street fights; however statistics have more than 50% of all fights on the street ends up on the ground. Therefore we need to train for such situations even if it just to get out of the hold, submission or just to get away.
They say you need an art of self-defence to get out of a situation on the street. This to me is not entirely true. There is no art when it comes to surviving a street encounter. This is where vital points come into consideration. Obviously we don't train vital points, as you would apply them in a real life or death street fight situation.
There are so many women attacked every year and almost none of them can defend themselves. That is because not many of them know how to defend themselves and those who do know is so shocked when it happens that they forget what to do when the attack comes. The reason that so many women are attacked is because we are seen as the weaker sex.