it's always morally acceptable to defend
yourself against unlawful force but you
gotta know when to say when
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this man is just sitting in the bus all
by himself the only passenger he's gonna
get up grab his cane like it's a bat
walk up to the driver of the bus and
bust him upside the head with it there's
no audio so we don't know if they had
any discussion beforehand but the bus
drivers just not having it get to him a
couple of shots there gets his seatbelt
off and is now absolutely gonna wail a
tune on him a little bit kick him right
there and then decide to get the heck
out of the bus grab his keys and then
got out of the bus and now notice here
that this is a guy that first hit him
that's the dude that ended up in the
fight with him and so now this guy is
gonna try to get in the bus and start
the bus and take off with it but he's
not gonna be able to because the bus
driver took it bus drivers walked out
called his supervisors they're waiting
for police to get there so now this dude
is going to walk around outside the bus
and what you're gonna see is when he
does our driver actually is going to see
him at this point and in anger come back
and absolutely like Bruce Lee kicked the
guy and now he's going to get on him
again and punch him several more times
at this point when another bystander is
actually gonna come up and get the guy
off of him now if you go read the news
story that's linked in the description
they said he absolutely had the right to
protect himself against the guy
attacking him but when he went back this
second time and got the guy with the
kick and the punches that was too much
and they fired him for that police have
charged the guy who hit him with the
cane though and that's where this one
ends well that first hit looked like it
really took him by surprise do you
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and it's lessons time from this one now
let's start this one with the discussion
of the fact that some attacks are just
gonna come at you quite unexpectedly you
see this guy here grabs ahold of his
cane in both hands like it's a bat and I
don't know what set him off guys I mean
like I said there's no audio in this and
we don't know what the discussion quite
was but obviously sometimes you know
you're not gonna look at an old man like
this who's walking around with a cane
and think that guy is gonna try to beat
me over the head with that cane and
sometimes the first attacks gonna come
at you unexpectedly and for reasons that
are not robbery or whatever but you
still got to be ready to protect
yourself in that instance and that's
exactly what we see happen here so this
guy comes over and busts him right
upside the head and the second lesson we
get out of this video is the critical
importance of emotional fitness of being
able to stay present because it's very
common for us to take that hit and start
thinking about the fact that we're hurt
and wondering what happened in the past
rather than what's happening right now
and how do I protect myself from it it's
one of the great reasons that you get to
training that you get to the mats that
you get to your martial arts so to
understand how to stay in the moment
even when you get popped and it hurts
our bus driver did exactly that after
that second hit you see him reach out
protect his head and his face with his
left hand while he's reaching out to
stop with his right very common reaction
here and this is actually really good
self-defense protect your head protect
your face protect your neck and then
reach out and get into some kind of
grappling distance because that'll stop
the punch swinging that'll stop the bat
swinging you see him dominate there and
start that five DS plus one so you see
him control the distance then deflected
that tool dominate and dominate all of
it and now the distraction starts where
he's getting in there and starting to
get this guy to go do something else so
then he can't disarm and disable in this
those five DS plus 1is again control the
distance and then deflect dominate
distract disarmed disable that's what we
see here a hundred percent now notice
this this turns into a grappling fight
and a coke okay
it's a grappling fight with an old man
but that guy is already obviously beat
him a couple of times it's pretty
serious stuff has to get his seatbelt
off there and that's pretty interesting
now getting after him and and trying to
keep him from hurting some more now I'm
gonna say that I think this kick is
right on the border when you kick
somebody with a shod foot especially
again the guy doesn't have you know
the cane in his hand anymore has no room
to swing it either and is not you know
not really attacking any morning you
could be seen if you are you know kick
someone with a shod foot while they are
grounded that can be seen by many juries
as aggravated assault as assault with a
deadly weapon
so again if the guy is actively
attacking you okay fine but you gotta
have the emotional control to stay in
control of yourself I get it that he's
mad he has every right to be mad but
recognize the fact that that isn't gonna
help you in a court of law when you you
know if you kick a guy that even though
he just attacked you is on the ground
like that now I think it was wise of him
to get the heck out of the bus and to
get away from the situation calling the
authorities and wait for the cops he
took the keys with him boss ain't going
nowhere I'm just gonna get the heck away
from this guy let the cops deal with him
and let it go at that
okay fine that was a morally good thing
but of course when he comes in here you
know with the Dragon Ball Z kick that's
not so hot friends this kind of a kick
here you can't defend that that is self
defense that's what we call an
educational beatdown and those kinds of
things and of course his employer has
the right to terminate his employment
for failing to follow his employment
guidelines now you may not like that but
the fact of the matter is the employer
can say hey man you can't get in there
and attack customers unless it's in your
self defense they even said he had a
right to defend himself when the guy was
attacking him but it was this attacker
right here coming back after him that
cost him his job
that's totally okay in my opinion from
the employers perspective but I think
the cops did give him a pass here
because they could have arrested him for
assault and charged him for assault for
this one as well especially given the
fact that what you see right here is
again he has the guy down and he is
punching a downed opponent and and you
know basically trapping him between the
guys fist and the concrete and that
could certainly be seen as assaultive
behavior and probably should be but I'm
gonna guess that the DA gave him a pass
because the guy had whacked him with his
bat a couple of times or with his cane
and so of course that makes him very mad
so the biggest lesson that we learned on
this one is you got to know when to say
when you got to keep your ego in check
and say you know what I'm gonna defend
myself here but I'm not going to go back
after the guy and punish that's that
Punisher test is what I am doing
protective of me and my loved ones or is
it punishing this person for daring to
confront me or try
to hurt me as long as you're being
protective and reasonably protective you
are fine but the second you go into the
punishment mode that's when you take
yourself too far in this particular
instance it didn't get the guy criminal
charges but it did cost him his job and
so I want you to stay within that
protective mode so let's learn lessons
here about the importance of emotional
fitness before during and after the
fight about those empty-handed skills
those 5 DS + 1
staying in emotional control and
covering our ass