- Ay-ahhhh! Ooosh! Ay-ahhhh!
Oosh! - (React) Welcome...
- Hi. - (React) ...to self-defense
with Travis Shaw! - Ohhh, let's go!
- (React) We are gonna teach you six self-defense moves.
If you can replicate four of them and not die, you will be
classified as a death evasion expert. - So cool.
22 years, tang soo do, third-degree black belt.
Hopefully, I'm gonna test for a master in the next year, so...
- But does that compare to a taekwondo white belt?
- I guess not. We're gonna find out.
How are you feeling? - Hm.
- (React) Yeah, do you know what you're getting into?
- Hm. - (React) Yeah.
Travis is gonna kick your [censored] today.
- Sick. - Well, we'll see if you survive.
Round one! Wrist grab. - Oh! (laughs)
- I have you. - The first one.
- That's it. This is it. - Oh.
- (both laugh) - How would you get out of this?
- Just this? - Yup.
- (laughs) - Are you okay?!
- Yeah! - Yo! Stop!
Heya, heya, heya, hey. - (laughs)
- Okay. Get in my van!
I'm giving you sugar-- ah. (ding)
- Gah! (ding)
- Ha-ha! Ha! - Oh, okay.
- Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
- Oh. - But now I have you.
- Yup. - Now I got both hands on you.
- Both hands. Okay. Well, see the thing is, what I would
do naturally, I don't want to do to you.
- (React) What would you do? - Go forward and aim
for the [censored]. The nads. - For the nuts!
- Yeah. - The weakest point
of the grip is where? Where would you say
the weakest point of the grip is?
- (Dani) Right here. - (Travis) Right here, yes?
- (Dani) Where the hole is. - (Travis) And that is how you got out
each and every time. All you have to do
is make a fist, grab the fist, step back, pull out,
and then you're done. That's it.
You literally have to pass through the thumb
and the middle finger. That is the weak point
of the grip. - Oh!
- Yay! - You survived the first round.
Good job. - I like surviving! This is fun.
- Nice. - (React) Yeah!
- I'll take the point. - Awesome.
- I'll take the point. That's a good one.
- (React) Where did you learn? Did somebody teach you or--
- No. - She just figured it out.
- Yeah. - Over the years of...
- Street fighting people. - (Travis) ...fighting other people.
- Yeah. - Now I know how to defend myself,
so I'm gonna do this, pepper spray, and then run.
- I feel it could be more useful for a bar
or a social event or something like that,
where somebody is like, "Hey, wait."
It's like, "'Ah, no." - Yeah, "Don't touch me."
If someone touches you, and you don't want them on you,
you can get them off you. Round two! Chokehold.
- (React) We're gonna see how you think you should--
- You might wanna take off this lovely necklace
that you have on. - Y'all making me take off
all of my jewelry! - Are you ready?
Ya! - Ah-ha-ha!
Oh, I had to wait. Okay, hold on.
- (laughs) - Ahh! (laughs)
He's big enough that he gets away with this one.
You're being choked right-- - I'll go like, "Bah!"
- That could work. Let's say you do do that.
Okay. Now I'm here. What happens?
- I go out? Wait, no. But I feel like this
would be a strong grip. I'm gonna--
- You're dying. You're dying as we speak.
- I'm choking you. Oh, you're laughing?
(laughs) That's not bad!
- Do it. Do it. - Oh my--
- Do it. - Oh, god.
- Do it! - Oh. I wanna, like--
- And that's called psychotic intimidation.
- No, no, no. So, we're here, yes?
- Yes. - Arm up, turn over,
trap, arms down here. And then, you can elbow
to the face. A lot. - And elbows are a fave
'cause, again, long nails can't punch that well.
- See? - Yeah.
- You survived! - Yes! All right, all right.
I'm doing all right. - This reminds me of Ms. Piggy.
Hiii-ya! - (laughs)
- I feel like these moves are too easy,
and I overthink these. But if you knew these moves,
for everyone out there, you would be safe.
And I feel safe now. - (React) Or [censored] your pants.
- Or [censored] your pants. - Or just [censored] your pants.
- When in doubt, [censored] your pants.
Just [censored] 'em. - Round three! Side headlock.
Ohhh, snaparoni and cheese! We're coming over here.
- Oh. - No.
- Oh, this. Oh, th-- okay. - This one here.
- Right. - Honestly, at this point,
I think it's the leg. - Oh, okay!
So, you wanna lift my leg up? How are you gonna get out
of this, Dani? I still have you.
(buzzer) (laughs)
- Run, run, run! Run! - See, now we're both
going down, though, together, and I still have you
in the headlock. - Oh, you know what?
That's correct. - There's something else
that-- well. - There you go! I got out!
- Wow, was I just not paying attention?
- I survived. - See, everybody wants to pick me up!
(buzzer) Why does everybody wanna pick me up?
- 'Cause it's fun. - I think you're dying.
Get me in a headlock. Nyah. - So, right here?
- All the way down. Good. You strike anywhere here
in the groin area. You can either go for the chin here...
- Oh. Okay. - ...and come up,
or if that doesn't work for some reason,
you usually go-- like, if you're being really, really mean,
you go for the eyes or the nose or the ear.
You can pull the ear. You have a lot of hair,
so I could just grab your hair and pull back, strike.
- It's a very kinky sport. - (both laugh)
- Ahhh! Ah! - Ah! Gah!
- (React) Bam! - I'm trying! It's not working!
- You push here. Push-- no, you're pushing off to the side.
I think you're dead, Paulina. - I'm not dead!
- Yeah, I think you're dead. - Here.
- Yes! Good! - Come back up.
- Uh-huh. - Wah! Dah!
- Reach, reach, reach. Chin, chin, chin. Up. Good!
- I couldn't find your chin. I'm sorry.
- Let's go! We're teaching people today.
We're teaching people how to survive.
- (React) I like how Dani is like-- you're like that unassuming person
that somebody might [censored] with, but then you would destroy them.
- You would-- - (React) Oh my goodness.
- Oh my gosh! The hook! - (React) He's got it!
- You know, I literally just beat you. - No, I won. I won.
- (Izzy) I literally just beat you. - You're still down there.
- (both) I won. - The other ones are a lot
easier to do. This one is like, cha-ching!
It's harder. - ♪ (both humming fight music) ♪
- Huh! Rah, rah, rah, rah! - (React laughs)
- Round four! Bully grab. - Bully grab?
- Yes, it's called bully grab. - Is it against bullies?
- I got you here. Right here. - Oh, I hate this one.
- (laughs) - I'm hungry! Give me your money!
- You know what? Legitimately-- - Do people still use money at school?
So turn-- good! Oh my gosh!
Are you guys talking outside of here?
What's going on?! - Kick you in the balls.
I'm not kicking you in the balls. - Let's assume that you did
just kick me in the balls. Ohhh! Ah! Gah!
- There you go. I'm gonna run! - Oh! Ah!
I probably would let go... - There you go? See?
- (laughs) ...if someone hit me in the balls.
- I survived. - Hello!
- Oh my god! - You're dying! You're dying!
Now I got you in a headlock. - And then we gotta--
- Ahhhh! - Dick punch!
- Dick puuunch! - First idea is to break here.
- You're getting there. That's good. You're twisti--
you're using your sweat to your advantage. (laughs)
He's like salamander over here now. - I am just a sweaty boy.
That is what it is. - What I'm teaching everyone
is to go here, like this. - Oh, that's cool.
- (both laugh) - You get this hand out first.
- Okay. - You step allllll the way around.
- Uh-huh. - And then, you put this hand
on the shoulder. Boop. - And then go down.
- And then you're down here. Ha!
Boom. - Hee!
- Hey. - Look at him and his dumb lunch box!
- Hey, first of all-- - Give us your food!
- I like my lunch box, okay?! - Oh, god! Oh, god!
- It's a great lunch box! - Give me YOUR lunch money, punk!
- I don't have any! (cries) - (voice-over) Hiii-yah!
- I have scars from punching things... - Jeez!
- ...on my... - (Travis) Dani! Who are you?!
- I'm confused now! - Good. (laughs)
- You did a good job. - Woo.
- Woo! - Gah!
- (React) Did that one feel natural to you
because of kinda like the dancing background?
- Honestly, yes. It felt like a literal dance turn.
- For any of you out there that are being attacked
by a dude and they get close enough for you to kick him in the balls,
kick him in the balls. - Do it.
- It works. Round five! Bear hug.
- Okay. Okay. - Ahhh!
- I think I know what's going on here. - Yes?
Ha! Oh my gosh. My arms wrap all the way
around you. - Dead weight! (laughs)
- I got you now. - Well, this one, I can't pepper spray.
- Nope. - My hands are immoved.
- I got you. Ahh! Nooo! Ahhh!
(buzzer) - My first is to go down and out
because I feel like, from here, I have enough energy
to be able to pull open here. - You're close.
- Fingers! - Yeah, go for the fingers.
- Ow, that would hurt in real life. - Woo!
- No. - Got it.
- Yeah, you went forward. - Okay, well then, get up.
- Nope. - Okay.
- We're down here now. - Well, if I--
- And now, I'm gonna come up here. - Okay.
- And you're gone. (buzzer)
I think you're dead, Brian. - Yeah, I think I'm dead.
- You're taking too long. - I think I'm dead.
- You had the right idea, though, but you're dead.
Brute forcing your way out will only work if you are naturally
larger than the other person. See? You have to drop down,
and you have to lift your elbows up here.
- Okay. - Oh, and it releases.
- And then I come back, and then you can throw elbows,
elbows, elbows, elbows, elbows, push, run away.
- Dropping straight down dead weight was good!
But you dropped all the way down and you leaned forward,
which is bad. - Oh, bad. Bad.
- Oh! Yes! That's it! - Yeah.
- Yeah! - Drop it. Boom! Ta-ta-ta!
- (laughs) - Your arms are bigger--
- What do you mean?! They didn't grow.
- You cover me! - They didn't grow
in the next five seconds! - Guess again!
- I'm a bear! - When you're at a camp site...
- (bear roars) - Ahhhh! Oh, gosh! Oh!
That was it! Ah! - (React) What's going through
your mind when somebody is bear hugging you from behind?
- I knew you weren't gonna hurt me,
but it's so scary, 'cause I can't move
and I'm trying to do the moves. - You survived. You survived.
- Thanks. I survived? - You survived.
- Oh! - Honestly, though, the head tuck
is the most important thing about that. - Super important.
- Was I literally went, "Uh!" - All fun and games until
we go, "Now let's try these in the real world."
- Yeah. Round six! Knife?
- (React) What are you gonna do if somebody's coming at you
with a knife? YES! - Dang! But that's technically
the right answer, yes. That's technically the right answer.
You run! (laughs)
- You killed me without my consent! - Ah!
- Chu! - You just grabbed the thing!
- It's okay. I'll-- - That's dead.
- This one is a big one as somebody who has worked
in many a bar. This is absolutely critical.
- (Travis) Super critical. - Oh, there it is.
- (all laugh) - Well, hello.
- Are you ready to learn? - Learn me.
- For the record, if you ever have to do any of this,
you gotta know that you're probably gonna get cut.
You gotta be careful. That being said,
here are some techniques that may not be entirely practical,
but that could still probably help you. Let's say we're in an elevator.
You have to use your legs to keep me as far away from you
as possible. Boom. Good. Boom. You just keep me back
the whole time. God forsake-- God forbid
you CAN'T run away from a knife and you HAVE to get control
over it, thrust in. Boom. I come to you palm up.
You know why? This is hard. This is soft. Much more
important stuff in here. Less important stuff over here.
- Okay. - Grab. Up and over.
Strip the knife. Then I take you down to the ground.
I sit down on top of you. - Death.
- And then I call the police. - Give me your phone.
- No! - Ha!
- I will not give you my-- wait. What is it?
- Uh-oh. Uh-oh. - Yah!
- I missed. So, I died. 'Kay. - Yah! Yes!
Are we out of frame yet? No? - And then,
I can take you all the way down. - Yah! Oh!
That's pretty good! Wow! Murder charges!
- (React laughs) - God, this one has too much
thinking involved! - Yeah, this one's really,
really technical. Not at all practical!
Izzy, you're dead. You died. - Goodbye. Hasta la vista.
- Boy Scouts, always prepared. - (React laughs)
- I know that we've been-- gone through multiple things.
Were you holding that knife the whole time?
- Yes. - Holy crap! Holy crap!
- I know what to do. - (laughs)
- I know what to do with the knife.
- You know to run away if there's a knife.
- I know to ru-- - Learning how to get out
of the headlock was helpful... - Yes.
- ...since I do that one a lot.
- I like the ones that I lived through. - Oh, of course, yes.
- Yeah. - Naturally, you would like the ones
that keep you alive. - Yeah, exactly.
- The wrist grab at the very beginning was helpful
all the way through this situation. - Mm-hmm.
- I haven't fought in a really long time.
- I haven't gotten in a fight in quite a while.
- Let's keep it that way. - Quite a while.
- Yeah! - (React) An evasion expert, my friend.
- I had a good teacher. - Thanks.
It's like I've been doing it for six years.
- You're a death evasion expert.
Thanks for watching this episode! - Which one of these
would you guys wanna learn? Let us know in the comments.
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- Punch that Subscribe button. - (both) Goodbye!
- Goodbye! - Goodbye!
- (both laugh) - (both) Bye!
- Hwa! - Wa-jah!
- Bye. Bye! - Goodbye.