Mistake #1 – You Don’t Have Situational Awareness – Situational awareness means you see the “orange alert” signals of suspicious and dangerous-looking behavior on the part of suspicious and dangerous-looking individuals.
Solution: You must trust your “gut” instinct. When you feel that something is wrong or not right in a strange environment, pay attention to those feelings. Don’t ignore the individual with the shifty eyes wearing the thick wool overcoat in the middle of a hot summer August day with his hand placed inside of his coat pocket.
Mistake #2 – You Don’t Look Around For Objects In Your Environment Which Can Be Used As Weapons – Forget about nunchakus, shiroken stars, bo staffs and kung fu swords that ridiculously many sifus teach the use in kung fu schools. This ain’t ancient China folks! You are not going to walk around with any of these ancient weapons. One, the law won’t allow it, and Two, most of them are too complicated to maneuver and use expertly. How many times have you seen on America’s Funniest Videos someone demonstrating the use of nunchakus and then wind up hitting himself in the “family jewels”?
Solution: If you see a ketchup bottle in a fast food restaurant, (or any hard and easy to grab object), if necessary, grab it and use it. If you have a cup of hot coffee (or cup of any liquid for that matter) throw it in the face of an aggressor unexpectedly, then kick hard several times to the shins, and follow through with other blows.
Mistake #3 – Allowing An Obvious Aggressor To Strike First – This is a judgment call, but there is a point where the situation moves from a gray area to jet black. If someone gets verbal with you, but is just yelling and screaming while standing in the same place, this is usually a sign that he is not a real threat but is just letting off steam. Now, if that same person starts to clench his fist, start moving in aggressively toward your personal space even though you are stepping back – now it’s time to use a preemptive strike.
Solution: You strike first and fast in a way and in an area that will devastate him and stop him cold in his tracks. Best first blow? Front kick his shins hard a couple of times, and follow up with an eye rake, tiger claw, fingers curled inward from top to bottom over the eyes or a 45 degree angle close range foot stomp to the knee.
Mistake #4 – Not Continuing Your Attack After You Have Committed To Executing The First Blow – In street combat, it is a dangerous mindset to want to just “control” the situation or placate the attacker. I know of a case where a brown belt in kung fu got into an altercation with an individual whom he swiftly and luckily managed to knock to the ground with a high round house kick to the face (the type of kick that I would not recommend in a street combat situation) anyway, to make a long story short, when the guy hit the ground after that kick to the face, he feigned being hurt more than he actually was. When the brown belt bent over to “talk” to the guy to calm him down, and as he was explaining how unnecessary it was for them to be fighting, the guy on the ground quietly grabbed a brick and smashed it into the brown belt’s skull, knocking him unconscious and giving him a brain concussion.
Solution: Once your commit to hitting someone with the first blow, make sure it is a blow that counts and – don’t stop hitting – until your attacker is either completely subdued or knocked out.
Mistake #5 – Trying To Do High Aerial Kicks Instead Of Low Line Kicks – Forget Bruce Lee. Forget Jackie Chan. Forget Jet Li. Forget the movies. This is real life. You are not trying to fight pretty, look cool or feel like an action hero. This is not sports fighting. This is not tournament fighting. You are, in many cases fighting for your life or the safety of your loved ones.
Solution: Fight to survive. Fight low down and dirty. Kick the shins. Kick the knees. Kick the groin if you have a clean shot at it. But never kick higher than waist level. Save that for the Hollywood movie producers. You job is just to save your life.
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So, you want to learn self defense, eh? Do you really, really want to learn self defense? I playfully ask and repeat to you this question because there is something inherently wrong with the very concept itself when your goal is self protection. Even though I know better, I often, but not too often, find myself using this term as though it were the best mindset for survival.
As it is commonly used, it is a mistaken notion for maximum self preservation.
The 2 Reasons Why Self Defense Is The Wrong Mindset for Survival:
Reason #1 – When You Think Of Yourself Defensively, This Means That You Are Willing To Allow An Attack To Be Launched Against You – In order to defend yourself, you must first allow yourself to be assaulted. My question to you is, why would you wait to be assaulted if you can see it already coming? This is what situational awareness is for, and this is the purpose of a self-protective preemptive strike. Self defense is about reactionary responses. Self protection is about proactive and preventative responses, that is, you strike first, once you see the signs that you clearly will be assaulted.
Reason #2 – Self Defense Is NOT Control of the Situation – Let me make something clear. You are never in control of a confrontation as long as you are in a defensive posture. Offense is the the only way to control of a fight. Even in the non-combative sport of basketball requires that you do not just play defense against someone’s shots. You must take the ball and shoot as many times as you can to win.
So, in summary, do not defend – self protect yourself by offending the attacker with blows and strikes making sure you are the one who attacks versus the one who is being attacked and assaulted.
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Charles – In this article today, I am going to interview an expert on street fighting and Mixed Martial Arts fighting who is going to tell us the 3 reasons, even though all of the MMA guys out there like to take down and all of that fancy stuff while in the octagon, why it is crazy to fight on the ground in a street fight. How are you doing today, David?
David – Charles, it’s wonderful as always. How are you?
Charles – I’m doing good. Everything is kickin’. So, you’re going to tell us now why it is totally ridiculous and insane to want to fight on the ground in a street fight. So, take it away, and enlighten us, brother.
David – Charles, as you know, I am a reality-based instructor, and as you also know, I also do MMA. I know what I’m talking about when I speak of both. And while it’s okay to take someone down in the cage, it’s ridiculous to take someone down on the ground in a street fight.
- The Key Principle to Remember when you go to the ground in a street fight, if that should happen, is that an immediate recovery to your feet is necessary for your survival.
With that said, the -
#1 Reason Why It Is Ridiculous To Go To The Ground Is – You Don’t Know If You’re Fighting Multiple Attackers – You don’t know if this guy that you’re fighting with, that you’re on the ground with, rolling around trying to slap on some submission hold or arm bar or whatever it is you’re going to do, you don’t know how many, one, two, three, four friends he has laying in wait to come out and stomp on you, maybe pull out a knife, even pull out a gun and pop one in your head.
Charles – Wow.
David – And -
Reason #2 – The Ground In And of Itself Outside of The Cage Is A Very Dangerous Place To Be – There’s glass. There’s gravel. There’s all kinds of stuff that could cause you further injury, more so that what you’re going to experience fighting anyway. Why increase the chances of further injury? (Now, if you wind up on the ground, that glass and gravel can be used to grab a handful of it to rub it into your opponent’s eyes and face as an escape method.)
#3 Reason Why It Is Ridiculous, Crazy And Stupid To Stay on The Ground Is Because Once You Are On The Ground, You Have No Evasive Maneuvers – You have no escape options. You’re down there. You’re pinning yourself. If you need to get up and run, if you need to use evasive footwork and maneuvering to fight off multiple assailants or whatever the case may be, you can’t move as effectively when you are laying on your back than you can if you have your two feet on the ground that are meant to propel me around and use my evasive maneuvering and footwork.
Charles – Thank you so much, David.
David – Thank you.
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