Always? No. Not always.

I get a bit of a thrill when I get to tell students to keep their hands down.  I spend so much time telling them to keep their hands up that telling them to do the opposite is fun.

But shouldn’t you ALWAYS keep your hands up?  No.  Okay – shouldn’t you ALWAYS keep your hands up in a fight?  No.

There are no ALWAYS rules in martial arts… or any art for that matter.  There are definitely some pretty good ideas and keeping your hands up in martial arts is one of those pretty good ideas but there are times when keeping your hands down is a good idea.  (Go ahead, think of one and post it to the comments.)