I think it's a moral good when people
step in and protect the vulnerable among
us welcome to today's active
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from Buenos Aires Argentina today's
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see our victim is the elderly man who is
facing away from us in the center of the
screen the guy in the black shirt is his
attacker we don't know exactly what the
cut the conflict was beforehand but what
we're gonna see here as the action
begins is this guy is gonna grab hold
and punch that older man right in the
head now what happens is this bystander
comes up had seen that happen and lays
this dude out and is just absolutely not
having it and he's wagging a finger at
him or whatever kicks him a couple times
to keep him down now you see this other
couple come up because they didn't see
that hit so they're like hey man leave
him alone or whatever but now they're
standing up and now the standing
fistfight starts and you're gonna see
our bystander get a really good jab in
there it's gonna get a second job
knocked that guy back a little bit and
again people that didn't see the hit
they're like hey man maybe back off him
but now what's gonna happen is we're
gonna see our dude here step in finally
with the right hand hit him right on the
easy button and knock him out and that
is where this one ends good for him for
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lessons from today's video first things
first here if you are in a vulnerable
population you got to recognize that you
might be targeted now I don't have all
the information on this and I don't know
that this old man couldn't have you know
you know liftoff at this guy or call
them dirty names or said something ugly
Adam or whatever but regardless of that
I think it's morally evil to be
physically violent to elderly people
those are vulnerable folks we know that
it is much easier for
to be hurt very very seriously and I do
think it is absolutely morally evil and
reprehensible to put your hands on a
vulnerable person like that in any
capacity now then our bystanders saw
this coming and he is on the way to help
now that said I will say this as your
defensive coach and as your trusted
advisor please be very careful stepping
into third-party encounters like this
because if you don't have all of the
information and you start mistaking
facts or something like that you don't
know this guy didn't hit him or whatever
and our good guy here didn't know that
you could land yourself in a world of
legal trouble as well as really be end
up being morally wrong god forbid this
guy was defending himself or whatever
doesn't look like he was in this
instance but it really wants you to be
careful stepping into third-party
encounters because of the danger to
yourself everything you have is at stake
here now then I want you to notice he
hits this guy knocks him down then
stands over him and talks at him that
tells me this is social violence so this
is this is this guy saying you don't hit
elderly people you watch out what you're
doing because you've broken a rule and
you have to pay for that breaking of
rules in many places friends those
social cues and those social norms are
enforceable at the point of violence and
if you don't recognize that you can get
yourself hurt in a significant way if
you don't know the rules and the social
rules of that area now homies gonna get
up here and now they're gonna have
themselves a little bit of a fight and
the fist fight is about to start when
that dude finally gets up but I do want
to notice as well this other elderly
couple comes over and tries to stop him
remember what I said earlier about not
understanding third party encounters and
being very careful because this couple
didn't see the punch on the elderly
gentleman and so they came over to try
to help him go hey man why'd you come up
and punch that guy that's not cool
whatever get off him and they don't have
the whole story this is a great reason
to be very cautious to that because that
mistake effect are not knowing all of
the facts can get you into a place where
you are actually trying to stop what
could be a moral good so be very
cautious to that okay fine our dude here
was the initial aggressor gets up and
now he wants to fight and have it out
with this guy let's remember we better
have some empty handed skills and this
guy at the very least has a reasonably
decent left jab that's actually not too
bad was it picture-perfect is he gonna
go in boxing the WBO with that no but
not a bad job at all and he's gonna get
another one
here and hit him a second time but
recognize it you can do something twice
you try to do it a third time it's not
gonna happen and not gonna work very
well so you got a very up your patterns
exactly what he does here is he throws
instead of that left he throws that
right cross and hits him right on the
easy button here's a crazy thing about
boxing if you've ever done it for any
length of time you know there's a very
small windows to actually hit somebody
in these places and flash knock them out
very difficult to do but when it does
boy it sure is a fight stopper and he
did a good job of that in this
particular instance so empty-handed
skills incredibly important standing
boxing skills really important those
standing skills now then once it was
done our good guy walks off and I think
that's the right thing there again you
don't want to stand over the guy and
beat him to death you do want him to
stop what he was doing if he wanted to
have that at that point okay fine you
defend yourself but don't go and give
the educational beatdown because you
don't want to be looked at as an
aggressor or do the morally wrong thing
and all things considered I do think
that defending vulnerable populations is
a moral good so I applaud this guy for
that I think you better know the dangers
though and if you do you better have the
skillset to back it up but cover your
ass