in the fight for your life it's an adage
we say all the time no one is coming to
save you
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hi everyone welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea today's video comes to us
from seattle washington
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on their person in this day and age and
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you can see here our victim is looking
at his phone hanging out under the
overhang and the guy in the backpack is
walking away from him and is scouting
him
actually the guy on the park bench the
bus bench there
is in league with the guy in the
backpack as well you can read all about
it news is in the description like
always you can see this guy kind of look
over at him and come up from behind him
and just drill him with a sucker punch
and throw him to the ground here and
then drive him actually
out into the street into this two-lane
road they are gonna get driven out into
and he's gonna kind of at least drag him
back here a little bit while he's
absolutely wailing on him here and our
victim does try to get up you can see
him there and our bad guy grabs a hold
of his cell phone that's what he wants
and so he throws the cell phone over
away
and is just going to continue to wail on
this guy and you know i i guess
put an educational beat down on him or
teach him a lesson for resisting him
here now you see a bystander come up and
try to step in
but the accomplice tells him to not mess
around don't get involved because if you
get involved i'll have to get involved
whatever
now our victim's finally going to get
away and kind of hang out and start
hollering at the guy but these guys are
going to grab his stuff
and run off now again go read the news
story linked in the description
after a pretty significant manhunt they
did finally catch these guys
and they're actually looking at uh you
know the one who did the punching is
looking at up to life in prison for this
man that one is messed up and i have a
question for you out of this one let's
talk about it in the comments
and that is do you do empty-handed
skills training i know
an awful lot of our viewers are firearms
carriers i am too
but i don't know that we would be able
to use it let's talk about that in the
lessons but what about empty-handed
skills what are you studying
this is one of the big reasons i want to
tell you to be real cautious looking at
your phone
and hanging out paying attention to your
phone in transitional spaces
because again it's a thought vacuum and
a tension vacuum it keeps you from being
able to see what's going on around you
and also flashes to people hey look i've
got something very valuable when you're
in public like this
put your phone in your pocket i know
it's tempting not to but don't do it now
the this sucker punch comes in and again
if he'd been paying attention and and
had put his phone in his pocket would
see what's going on around him
at the very least he's not going to get
sucker punched like this this particular
one right here thankfully the guy
was not terribly injured by but this is
the kind of punch right here that does
permanent bodily damage
because he's not able to see it coming
he's not able to prepare for it he's not
able to brace himself
and those are the kinds that can do
really serious bodily damage here
and i know some people are going to ask
a question about well wait a minute now
can i pull a gun and shoot him in this
instance and quite frankly the answer is
you're not going to be able to pull a
gun in this instance you see right here
that that he is being punched in the
face
and he's being thrown about and if you
think you're going to get a gun out in
this instance without positional
dominance without being able to think in
those things
you are fooling yourself instead you got
to have the emotional fitness
to stay present and protect your head
and your neck the biggest thing you want
to do here
protect your head your face and your
neck and in most places
that i've ever taken this kind of
training from what you want to use is
you want to use a horizontal shield and
a vertical shield and these are the
kinds of things that you just got to
learn in class
that i can't really teach you on this
youtube channel we do some of it on
active self protection extra
now i want to also note that he drives
him out into the street and as he's
trying to get out he kind of gets out in
the road i want you to recognize how
incredibly dangerous this is
because hopefully cars coming by are
paying attention but this very quickly
could have you know had a car run them
both over for that matter and so this is
clearly a deadly situation
and again i i think that that even you
know when he's just beating on him on
the ground like that repeatedly raining
blows he's probably
you know justified to use deadly force
but he's not going to be able to get a
gun
out here which is why your empty-handed
skills are so important because this
guy's wailing a tune on you
you got to have the empty-handed skills
in order to stay in this fight
now i really think this is a big deal
that has this guy's throwing him around
and whatever he's
got the guy on the ground and now we
notice that the the bad guy is grabbing
for the phone and of course
our victim is going to grab for the
phone as well and not want his phone to
get taken but that
is a clue friends you got to say okay he
wants the phone and
i'm tired of getting punched in the face
so i'm going to use the phone as the
opportunity give him what he wants to
get me the space that i need
because the biggest thing that i need
right now is my safety not my phone the
doctor bills are going to be a whole lot
more than
a new cell phone is take action to
protect yourself i get it you're angry
that this guy is beating the tar out of
you and he doesn't deserve anything
but take action to protect yourself now
then my friends
you know who are grappling folks i do
want to talk about this real quick okay
again i
practice jiu jitsu as well and so i get
it you go okay wait this is perfect time
for jiu jitsu and it is but make sure
that you throw some dirt in your sport
game
now i am very much a big fan of
sport-based map-based
jiu-jitsu but recognize here he is over
top of him so okay fine you can play in
some you know guard positions or
whatever
but recognize he's throwing hard punches
here so every once in a while throw a
little dirt in your sport game
you know put some gloves on too and
allow some striking and those kinds of
things in a light manner
so then that way you're used to that and
ready for that when you do need it in
real life because in real life
of course these kinds of punches are
what's going to happen he's going to
need real emotional fitness here
because no one's coming to save him the
other part of that is recognize that
somebody tried to kind of
see come over and see what was going on
but the other bad guy prevented him from
getting involved and discretion was kind
of the better part of valor he decided
not to get involved in a third party
encounter
so recognize no one is coming to save
you you must be the primary agent in
your own rescue
because literally nobody else is going
to i'm glad they caught these guys
i'm even glad that the primary guy who
was beating on the victim is
facing because it was a robbery with
injury
up to life in prison on this one kind of
doubt they'll sentence him to that
but that's all great but none of that is
true justice the only true justice is
protecting yourself in the moment
so let's have the empty handed skills
let's pay attention let's know when and
where we could draw a gun not only
legally and morally but
physically and tactically and make sure
that we do the right things to cover our
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