There was an incident that just happened to me yesterday. I was in a sporting goods place with my 10-year daughter whom I love more than life itself, when this rude and angry worker carrying an armful of large flat cardboard boxes, in some sort of enraged rush, passes carelessly by my daughter and almost clips her in the face with the boxes. She manages to move her head back just in time without getting hit.
“Hey, dude! Say excuse me or something! You almost hit my daughter in the face!” I shout out to him in anger. He turns, looks at me with smug indifference, and just shrugs his shoulders as though to say, “What the hell do I care.” “Look, guy, just fool around and hit my daughter, and we can step outside.” To this he just looked at me with a blank stare, and walked away into a stock room. We then left.
Let me let you in on a little secret. If that had gone down differently, that is, if he had become aggressive with me and had said, “Fine, let’s step outside and settle this,” I wouldn’t have waited to walk outside with him. I would have “sucker punched” or “clock” him with a strong preemptive strike to some vital area like the eyes, throat or tip of the jaw, right then and there, in that aisle between the jogging shoes and the table tennis displays. This is why you must learn how to physically respond in very closed spaces.
The 3 Reasons Why You Must Train for Scenario-Based Fighting In Closed Spaces
Reason #1 - It Is In Closed Spaces Where Many Real Fights Do Happen – Sure, you usually see in the movies where guys are going at it in the parking lots or in some other open space, but real-world fights happen in enclosed rooms with plenty of furniture and objects all around. This could be in a club, an apartment stairway, or a sporting goods place.
Reason #2 - You Are Only As Good A Fighter As When And How You Train – If you only train in the wide open spaces of a martial arts dojo, I promise you, you will feel confined and out of your element the moment you find yourself having to defend yourself in a tight space or an enclosed room.
Reason #3 - You Begin To Understand What Really Works In Real-World Confrontation – In close and tight spaces, you are just not going to be able to execute your favorite flying side kick or your spinning back hand fist strike. Once you start training in enclosed areas, you may begin to realize that a lot of what you are spending your time to learn in your dojo is absolutely worthless in most street situations.
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From Charles Prosper – The Street Fighting Sifu
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Whenever anyone says Bruce Lee in any martial arts circle, heads bow and knees genuflect as you hear a celestial choir of angels gently sing in the background. We are talking about an icon here. We’re talking about someone more than a man and a little less than a deity. Yeah, right! Bruce Lee wasn’t all that great. Uh oh, I see some of you getting red in the face at the audacity of my statement, and I know that my talking trash about Bruce Lee is the closest that anyone can get to committing a martial arts sacrilege–but–there are 5 facts why Bruce Lee was not all that and a bag of chips.
Fact #1 – He Chirped – Aaarrr! Wooo. Woooo! What the heck is that about? Oh, yeah, I guess making those sounds really gets me scared.
Fact #2 – He Always Fought 20 (Fantasy) Attackers Who Surrounded Him With Weapons – Hey, give me 20 extras in a movie, hand them all nunchakas, bo staffs and clubs, give them a script, and tell them to pretend to be beaten up by me as the camera rolls and as I move in all cool and everything, kicking and knocking everybody out with a single blow, I guess that it would make me look like the greatest martial artist to have ever lived too.
Fact #3 – He Used Too Many High Kicks – Though as spectacular and impressive as they may have appeared as the audience, wide-eyed, mouth-opened went “Wow!” as he did his signature high and flying kicks, this is exactly the kind of kick you should NOT be doing in a real street fight. High and aerial type kicks are the most ineffective for real life street combat for many reasons. If you are too close inside your opponent’s body, the high kick becomes totally ineffective and can easily be caught leaving you hopping on one leg and vulnerable to your attacker’s kick to the only leg that is holding you up, either breaking it or knocking you to the ground. How many times do you find yourself in real life fighting situations that are closed quarters? You’re not going to be doing any high kicks, really, without banging your legs up against furniture or other objects in your environment.
Fact #4 – He Made Too Many Weird Faces While He Was Fighting – Who do you know who fights like he’s constipated or about to pass gas? Have you ever seen the way Bruce Lee twisted and contorted his face every time he was face-to-face with an opponent. (Opponent! Yeah, right! Rather the scripted actors in front of him with all of the choreographed moves.)
Fact #5 – He Licks His Own Blood To Get Mad – Remember that scene in Enter The Dragon were the other kung fu guy claws him across the chest with these artificial bear claws. Bruce Lee rubs his hand across his slightly bleeding chest, and licks it. This is not martial art. This is. This is. Well…just plain weird!
Look, answer me this. What makes you believe that Bruce Lee is qualified to be called the greatest fighter to have ever lived? Before he started to make movies, did he ever work as a bouncer? Did he have extensive body guard experience? Have you ever seen him in a street fight – or anybody that you know who has seen him for that matter? No, I didn’t think so.
If you want to praise great kung fu artists, you don’t have to go to the past to look for some over-glorified movie actor, and a bad one at that, to find kung fu masters, you can find them not on the movie screen but in kung fu schools all over the world. There are two that I personally know who could blow Bruce Lee out of the water, you may have heard of them. One is Sifu Armando Sainz of Florida specializing in Wing Chung kung fu and Sifu Ken Gullete of Illinois. I am sure that there are many more, but we never hear about them.
Just remember one thing, Bruce Lee was primarily a actor, and all of the bad guys that I have ever seen him fight were actors as well. Do I still need to say more? Oh, you’re still mad, aren’t you? Because I am dis-sing the immortal Bruce Lee? Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee can kiss my… Don’t you just love Bruce Lee?
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Let’s see. Time to put on your gi. Now, take off your shoes and wrap your belt around your waist. Walk up to the training floor. But wait, bow first. That’s right. Now go in and line up rank and file and begin your warm ups, stretching and calisthenics. Today you will have to perform kata number 7. If you don’t get each step right, you may not be promoted up to your next colored belt.
The above is a typical scenario of a traditional martial setting of which I was a part for over 21 years. I soon learned that none of this ritual trains you for the real world of self defense, or as we reality-based fighters like to call it, self protection.
There is one key and constant essential to all street fights, and that is its chaotic and explosive nature and its ability to trigger in you immediate survival-type physiological reactions. In this regard, I am particularly taking about the adrenaline rush or the adrenaline reaction. This is commonly known as the flight or fight response. Your heart beats faster. Your pupils dilate. Your pain tolerance threshold raises. Blood rushes to your muscles and extremities to aid in rapid and explosive movement.
If you have never experienced any of these reactions in your regular martial arts training, you are in for a rude awakening and surprise the first time that your find yourself face-to-face with a real live opponent on the streets who is out to do you great harm. When you experience this adrenaline rush, where you have never trained for it, you will usually “not know how to handle it” or in other words, panic, which may lead to the nor only the fight or flight response, but also the “freeze” response. This is the overload of adrenaline which causes “the deer caught in the head lights” reaction.
Your training must incorporate not only choreographed, pre-set and memorized moves, but it must also incorporate reality based scenario training which means the practice of responding to surprise attacks – the way attacks happen in the real world. This is what will not only surprise you but will also stimulate and help you to acclimate to the much needed adrenaline rush that you will never to handle in a real street fight.
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From Charles Prosper – The Street Fighting Sifu
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