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Any system, IMO, for self-defense use (whether it's taught for SD, or simply being learned for that purpose) needs a simple fighting base. I've only seen a few actual significant variations on that base. Trained with resistance, most become more similar than different. If a KM school starts with that base (rather than going immediately to individual techniques for specific situations) and trains with resistance, then it can be a good vehicle. If it jumps right to the techniques (here's a sequence to break from a headlock), it'll take a long time to build competency. One of the good things about the approach often seen with MMA is they go right to the fighting base and develop that before adding gap-fillers.
Excellent point. I never thought about it that way.