Someone is about to attack you in a real street fight. This bad guy is approaching — fast!
If your goal is to stay safe, then you have to make a very quick decision. Can you get away to safety?
Note: To paraphrase my teacher and those who came before him, if you turn and run away, you may live to run away again another day.
What may seem like two choices are really three:
* Will you have to stay and fight?
* Can you get away to safety?
– and –
* Can you get away, temporarily?
In Street Fight, Run for a Building
You won’t always be able to use this tactic, but it might just save you in a real street fight.
If you can’t get away to safety, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Maybe you can get to an open or unlocked door. A door affords you all sorts of opportunities:
* There could be help on the other side of the door. If you are in a rough area of town, the establishment may be prepared to deal with aggressive types.
* Maybe you could get to the other side of the door and lock it. You didn’t get completely “away,” but you did get to safety.
* The door is a good weapon …
By the way, the whole time you are running to safety, you have to Size Up Your Enemy.
Using a Door in a Fight
If you can make it to the door, and you can’t get to the other side in time to lock it, you can still make use of the door in a fight:
* grip the door by the handle or edge, for a short, quick swing into your attacker’s face
* slam the door into your attacker’s arm as he (or she) reaches inside, to try to grab you.
* use the door as a weapon that can be kicked or shoved into your attacker.
* hold the door open as if inviting the attacker in — and then slam him in the face as he passes the threshold.
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Keith Pascal has been a full-time martial-arts writer for eight years and a martial-arts teacher for 25 years. Ban inefficient techniques
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Do you know the difference between a martial art and a martial science? This a totally revolutionary concept, understanding it, will help you to make the best choice in how you train and where you train.
We have all heard of and are familiar with the concept of a martial art, but how many of us have heard of and are familiar with the concept of a martial science? Let us start with a few basic definitions before we examine the differences.
* Martial Art – A old concept which encompasses what you know as your traditional martial arts. We are talking about all of your ancient systems such as karate, kung fu, taekwondo or hapkido.
* Martial Science – A relatively new concept which encompasses essentially what is called reality-based scenario street fighting.
The Key Differences Between A Martial Art and a Martial Science: (For brevity, we will call Martial Art, MA and Martial Science, MS)
Key Difference #1 – MA Strives for Perfection of Execution – With MA, it is more important how you do a technique, that is, its look, its grace and its beauty than rather or not it is ultimately the most effective technique.
Key Difference #2 – MS Strives for The Effectiveness of The Technique – It does not matter how pretty or graceful a technique is executed. Ultimately, the most important aspect is how effective or realistic the technique is, that is, will it work on the streets?
Key Difference #3 – MA Is Based On What Is Supposed To Work – Many of the techniques and approaches are so old, outdated, ancient and antiquated that many of them have no place in modern-day self protection, yet MA continues to espouse and teach these techniques. They are supposed to work today just because they worked 5000 years ago.
Key Difference #4 – MS Is Based On What Has Been Validated (Proven) To Work – MS uses many training methods that involves the validation of a technique. For example, a RBF instructor will dip the tip of a plastic knife in red dye (to resemble blood). If a knife technique is executed and the RBF student gets red dye on him, guess what, his technique didn’t work. He theoretically “got cut”. This is called validation of technique, very common in RBF training and not common in traditional MA training.
Key Difference #5 – MA Strives To Maintain A Style and A Tradition – MA at times appears to be obsessed with all of their Grand Masters who lived in ancient China, during the Ming Dynasty and how they lived, trained, ate and dressed.
Key Difference #6 – MS Strives To Maintain The Survival of the Individual – MS could care less about the tradition, history, origin or romance of a fighting technique. In RBF, it is not about what style – it’s about what works!
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I had been studying kung fu for about 2 years now. To be quite honest, I could never get into the belt thing. What I mean is that I saw how earnestly everyone strove so hard to learn their fighting forms or better known as katas in other fighting styles. I really didn’t care that I was still a white belt. I just wanted to learn how to fight – how to be able to protect myself or my loved ones in case I had to.
All was well as I learned and practiced 3 times a week all of the complicated stances and the high and flying kicks that required a lot of flexibility and looked so beautiful, graceful and spectacular whenever a higher colored belt executed it during a fighting drill.
I had learned a wide variety of kicks, punches, strikes and moves, many of them based upon and imitated the moves and fighting styles of exotic animals like the crane, the tiger and even mythical creatures such as the dragon. (I guess somebody had seen a dragon fight or they wouldn’t have been teaching that to me, right?)
One night at my 8 year-old daughter’s school Halloween party, reality struck. A guy whom we all knew at the school, a middle-aged 6-foot and very muscular school custodian happened to have greeted my wife a little too enthusiastically by saying hello and also giving her an inappropriate hug which made her very uncomfortable.
I called him outside to politely mention that his over-expressive gesture was not cool, and that it made my wife feel very awkward. (I later found out that this individual had a prison record which he had hidden from the school and also that he was haboring a grudge against me for some insignificant event which had happened prior to this night.)
“If she was uncomfortable, then why didn’t she say anything to me?” was his response.
“My wife is shy person, and I am speaking for her.”
“And if I do it again, then what?” was his unexpected and shocking challenge to me.
Surprised at this answer, I could only say, “Well, I will do whatever it takes to stop you.” However, secretly, I began to feel unexpected fear and apprehension. This was embarrassing to me, after all, I had studied martial arts for almost two years.
“We could settle it now,” was his ultimatum.
I froze. I didn’t know what to do. Should I strike first? Should I wait until he made a move? Should he have made a move, which of the myriad of kicks, punches, blows and counters would I have done? I was confused and paralyzed with not knowing what to do. So, I did nothing.
“You had better not “F” with me because you’re too light in the behind,” he added.
He took a step toward me, looked me angrily in the eyes, then turned around and walked back into the auditorium.
I was humiliated and devastated. I could not have felt worst even if he had beat me to the ground. I think to have gotten beaten would have been better than walking away feeling like a coward. A coward? But how could this be? I was a martial artist of over two years!
I can lift three lessons from this experience that was the changing point of my life:
Lesson One – Learning martial art does not equal being combat ready. In many kung fu, karate and taekwondo schools, martial art is reduced to sports fitness, art and dance.
Lesson Two – Knowing too many techniques is about as good as knowing no technique at all. If you teach a child 300 ways to tie his shoe in the case of an emergency, I guarantee you that at least 298 ways are totally unnecessary. And in the case of an emergency, he will probably freeze and not know which one to do first. This is usually what happens to many martial artists in their first real street combat experience.
Lesson Three – To learn street combat fighting and survival, one must train for street combat survival. Reduce the number of fighting techniques to a few but powerfully effective ones that are similar to each other and that you can executive without thought or hesitation.
As fate would have it in my quest to find the perfect instructor and the most realistic self defense street survival instructor, I searched the globe, and I found two of the greatest real life self defense street combat instructors the world has ever produced who both happen to be black belts in two different fighting disciplines.
My honored teachers are Norm Bettencourt of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, a black belt in karate and Christopher “Bob” Roberts who currently resides in Frankfurt, Germany, a black belt in hapkido. They both have similar backgrounds. They both have had many years experience as both bouncers and body guards and have had to be in and have survived numerous real life street confrontations.
These two incredible teachers have taught me how to make kung fu, though a different discipline than theirs, to be street effective. With their help, I have gone from a kung fu martial artist to a kung fu street fighter.
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From Charles Prosper – The Kung Fu Fighting Guy
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