Hey guys, Nick Drossos and welcome to Code Red Defense. A very very important video today
footwork, is your base. I was teaching a seminar in Athens, Greece and people were doing drills and
a lot of times their feet were like this right. They were parallel. Now, this is the worst stance
you can have in the street, why? If I push, I lose balance, it's easy for the person to take
down. So, your fighting stance is this. This is my fighting stance. When I was working at the club,
I was always here, why? One step in, one step back okay. So, it's, I have good balance to strike
to move, I have access to all my weapons. So, you're looking at your boxing stance
right you're here. So I'm from here, here or here. So, if this was my center line one foot's in,
one foot out, okay. Again, so come over here Pat. I'm here, I'm talking to him, why I could knee,
I can palm strike, if he goes for a tackle or to take me down, my hands are here, they're up and I
have a solid base where if he grabs my leg I'd be able to strike right. If um if you try to push me,
just put into this, I'm right in my stance is right in my stance, If I'm hear, he pushes
right. I do this right. So, you want to have one leg forward, where I can move forward. I can move
back, I can move off to the side and again, I'm in a passive stance. I'm here. So, when
I talk to my attacker, I'm exactly like this, I'm talking to him here, here to here, I'm trying to
diffuse the situation. He has no clue that, if I decide to strike, boom, I'm here, boom I'm there.
If he decides to strike, I'm here to block or to move. I'm one step away from my fighting status.
I'm not doing this, I'm not wide, I'm not getting in fighting stance, instead I'm just here right and now
the next thing, if the person's moving around me, as you guys can see, I'm pivoting
got to practice this. So Pat, let's say the guy is walking in my face fast go...
Now, look look how I just shifted him with one move. Go again, back bring it in that's all I did,
just walk towards me like you're giving me attitude
boom, he's open right there. So, what do I do, practice this shift
shift. So, if he comes here right let's go, so come here, walk towards me here. So, if he
does this, I'm going to shift here. Now, because here I'll shift here, look I'm only doing this,
I'm pivoting already why? Because, go Pat... If I do this walk towards me, if I do this here boom,
I'll strike him there. So, with one pivot I'm off to the angles. It's about understanding angles
right. I see sometimes people they do stuff like this or they move here. So, learn that just put it
here pivot here. So, practice this at home, just do this. So, I'm here he walks here, I'm here
and sometimes they just don't even move at all. Yeah, they don't move, them here I'm talking here,
look I'm in my fighting stance right. Now, if I was talking, let's say making the mistake of you
not moving. Yeah, you want to keep moving. Yeah right, I'm going to be always here why? I want
to force him to move. Yeah, I want to force him to move. If I don't want to stay static because
he's going to set up his punch by me forcing him to move. I'm also creating an opening to strike
him okay. So, practice the pivot just doing this, find a point just practice this here
and you see with one movement. Come towards me Pat, with one movement on here
I'll strike him right there. So guys, very important video because your base is your
footwork right. Your power is generated from solid ground to your hips and as well with one movement
one motion, I control where the person is going to go and
to set up my strike. But guys, if you want to learn more self defense, you got to go
visit our website codereddefense.com. We have a footwork, just a footwork
video that teaches all this. We'll put the link in the comment box as well as let us know what are
some of the self-defense questions and safety tips you want to know. Because that's what we're doing,
we're taking your questions. So, I want to thank you guys for watching stay safe and stand strong.
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