Awesome work.
>> My man.
>> So next we have, the one hand lapel. Surdan. Now, Surdan is the man.
How long did you work in clubs?
>> 15 years. >> 15 years. So, Surdan has seen it all. Seen people get hurt? Yes.
>> Stabbed.
>> A little bit, yes.
>>Yes. So he's seen a lot of the real stuff. So, we're going to be
doing the one arm lapel defense. And this is like he said before, before
we started the video. He said, this is probably the one most common
way that people fight. The hockey fight.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. So what is it? Guy grabs with one arm, and just starts
going right into the the face right and I could tell you most people
I've seen from my experience from clubs, there's two ways the most
two ways people fight. One is this way and the other one is just
you know wild punches coming in, so those are to me the most two
most common ways that people fight and I've seen, I don't know
if you've seen it
I've seen guys do this stuff when they get into a boxing stance,
they look all good but once they punch [LAUGH] They turn into
[SOUND]
and you're screaming and the punches are coming from from every
angle. And believe it or not, I'd rather fight somebody like this
than somebody like this because sometimes it just becomes so unorthodox.
Just so wild, the punches are just coming in from every angle that
it's just becomes so hard for you to say, what is he doing, where
is he coming from? And it happens so fast, it's the same thing
for you or not?
>> Yeah. You never know what's going to happen.
>> Yeah. If the guy does this, okay, we're in a stance, we're going to block,
we're going to slip, I know what he's going to do. But this type
of stuff becomes so wild to stop, the hands start moving, you're
like, does the guy have a weapon, does he have a knife? You know
what I mean? And the angles are just so crazy. So we're going to cover
the one arm lapel. What I want do for the one-arm lapel grab defense.
I'm going to use Mark too. Mark, come over here. Actually wait, Mark.
Wait a second. I'm going to do first with Surdan. What happens is...Ok.
Grab me, the shirt. In a one arm lapel grab, the person will use his arm
to keep you back and the hand will come up and he's going to start
punching right here, okay. It gets very hard to defend against because
not only do you have the punch to worry about but you have this
arm to worry about, this is the arm that's actually keeping you
from striking. I can strike Surdan from here pretty easily.
So, I don't have to worry so much about moving the arm and even then
or sometimes it's not easy to move the arm because the person is still
striking okay. However, later on you're going to see we'll go into
the same self-defense drill with Mark and it's going to be much harder because we
have such a huge range of difference okay. So, the person has the
arm, grab again. What do I want to do from here? The first thing
I want to do is try to bring up my hand over here, keep a stick on
his arm why? Just in case he lets go and comes in here, so I might
do this and say
[SOUND]
well from here I might do this and let go and strike into the throat
and even though you're going to go into critical focus on the punch
well this can knock you out because you won't see this
Coming, you won't expect it, right. I can go up right here and from
here you could release and go for a palm strike straight up, boom,
and I won't even see that especially if I'm talking while he hits
me I'm going to get knocked out, okay. So you have the arm here,
I want to establish a stick so he won't be able to do this.
Second thing I want to try to do is tuck in my head right and any this is
one of the striking principles and with Surdan he does it instinctively
every time, tucks his head and why? Because, I know that the big danger
threat is my face. If I take a couple of shoots in the head you'll
survive, your head going to be able to take but if I take in the
facial area, break my nose, tooth, jaw, this is more of the knockout
areas. So I'll tuck in my head the first thing so if I take any
shots, I take them to the head. The second thing is my hand are
going to come up. The last thing I want to do is try and move in
this way, I want to try and move away from his power punch and from
the biggest threat where I'm a little bit off to the side, my hands
are here, because what I want to try and do is move and strike and
I want to try and try to start moving on to the side. Remember one
of the principles, the diamond principle
Is what? Strike, "Y" and establish chest to back as quickly as possible.
So, from here to here my hands are up, if he decides to
start striking, my hands are going to come up, I'm going to block, okay?
Now what can happen very often, some people block like this,
there's an advantage, yes, it's quicker and easier to block,
but if the guy's got a weapon, if the guy's got brass knuckles,
or if the guy's got something, well I might be taking it into the
arm into the thing, so I'd rather try to stop it as much as possible
here. Okay? So I want to keep the arm at this distance, if I keep
it at 90, he's easily going to overpower me. So I want to keep it at
this angle, where it becomes much harder for him to break.
Now, what happened to me, this happened to me more than once in the
street but it wasn't a one arm lapel. It's when the punch is thrown,
and I end up here. Okay. When you end up here, and he's overpowering,
Well now it's kind of too late for me to come back and do this.
You'll never have enough core strength and enough power to...
Give me power...
All I'm going to do is go down into the ground. If that happens in that case
all you can do to just turn and try to establish chest to back okay.
But I'm going to be coming also in the hay maker because and a lot
of times it happened to me where as much as you train as much as
you calculate everything; shit happens and it doesn't happen exactly
the way you train and sometimes the strike is done so explosively
and so fast that just a few seconds make a difference and you end
up stopping here when and it happened to be and you'll see I'm
trying to move back I said dammit what am I doing and then I just
distinctively just duck slip and establish chest the back.
So what we are going to do for the first drill because this is to me
one of the most important ways to learn how to fight is to actually
what we are going to do is we are going to put on a helmet, I'm going to
put on a helmet, Surdan put on a helmet he's going to put on boxing gloves
for the first part of the self defense drill, all he's going to be doing is he's
going to be punching me. First part of the drill for me is not to
take any hits, to try to trap to try to
move in to try to find a way to take the least amount of
hits as possible okay. Surdan just put on a protective helmet.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Put on the boxing gloves.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
So again, like I said guys this is the most common thing, and you're
going to see the difference, and this is why a lot of martial arts,
the martial artists people teach self defense don't do.
Well, if I'm going to train with somebody who's half my size, well
I've learned how to defend myself against somebody who's half my size.
But, you got to train for bigger, taller and stronger attackers then
the rest become easier. And I'll give you the example, and I'll
prove it to you after when he's going to get to attack Mark, he's
going to have a much longer reach than Mark, how hard it's going to be
for Mark to try to apply the same principles as we're doing here,
okay? So I'm going to put on my helmet. Take off one boxing glove just so
you can grab my shirt.
[SOUND]
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Now, just start by grabbing my t-shirt, whenever you want, go
[SOUND]
Keep going, keep going
[SOUND]
Grab again, whenever you want, go.
[SOUND]
Go go
[SOUND]
go go go, keep going.
[SOUND]
Again. Whenever you want. [SOUND] [SOUND]
Break.
[SOUND]
And you saw? Right? Now, again I knew exactly what he was going to do.
So I don't want to make it like the rest of the self defense videos
where, he grabs my one arm lapel, and I show you how successfully
he did it. But later on, there's going to be full out attacks without
knowing
what the person will do. But the first thing I did is try
to tuck in my head, bring in arm up. I grabbed his arm because I don't
want to allow him, come over here. I don't want to allow him to let
go of this arm, and then I got to try to trap him and then he's
throwing punches with both arms. So my first thing was, I'm going to
keep you here, but I'm going to make sure I block this arm. Right?
Establish a trap. In reality, I'd probably be striking, right?
But we're going to cover that a little bit later. So what do I do?
I tuck in my hand, I trap the arm, and I try to immobilize him,
stick to him, use my whole body. Not my arm, not my back, not my
shoulders. My entire body has to come in and trap. Right? He's
much bigger than me he's stronger than me, but I got to use all
my force to keep him in there as much as possible. Mark, come over here.
You want to wear the helmet again? Put on the helmet Mark
[BLANK_AUDIO]
So, the same thing now, your going to grab Mark, no striking Mark. Just pow, pow, pam,
rapid punch, use your reach, move him back, move him forward,
okay? Now, we have
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Look at this, a pretty big reach, Surdan has a much wider reach than
him. This is when most common attacks I've seen fights happen in
this situation, one arm repel, the guy is much bigger, he's much taller.
He uses that reach and it's like "bam" and you're trying to stop him,
you're focusing on the arm, you're trying to come in, the guy is
pushing you and throwing his punch. Let me see it happen. So no
strikes allowed, only trapping. Don't let get the arm.
[SOUND]
Trap the arm underneath, trap it, pin it.
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Trap the arm, that's it, break. Break. Good. Now, he landed a lot
of shots right. A lot of them wouldn't have done that much damage,
they're behind the head, they're half blocked, half stopped, but
where did
Mark go wrong? when he's trying to trap the arm, you gotta trap the
elbow, okay? The elbow is the weakest part between the shoulder,
and the hands. You got to try to pin it over here, right? Because it
doesn't have much force, if I do it over here, the person can move
the arm, grab me here, grab me here.
[SOUND]
I still have more here. If you grab the elbow, and pin it here,
it becomes much harder for me, all right? You pin it to his body,
okay? Go again, but you saw how easy it was for me to block that
punch because I had that reach, and how harder Mark had to mode forward
to come in, to not let him get it. Go again.
[SOUND]
Don't let him Mark, use that range. Go. Wait, wait, start. That's
it. Wait, wait. Wait, wait. Start, back here, and whenever you're ready...
Go. Make it hard for him. Go!
[SOUND]
Look at that.
[SOUND]
That's it. Behind the head.
[SOUND]
Uppercut him that's it, keep going.
[SOUND]
That's it, that's it, that's it. Break it up.
[SOUND]
Keep throwing, keep throwing that punch
Go, go, go.
[SOUND]
Break. Nice! You managed to get a few shots, right? What did you
feel there Mark? What did you feel?
>> The impact of the punches,
[CROSSTALK]
doesn't matter, like if you grab him.
>> You're still feeling the strikes, yeah. You have a height, and
weight advantage guys. Anybody who tells you size doesn't matter,
to me has never fought anybody bigger. Does size make a difference
for you?
>> Everything matters. Speed, size
>> [LAUGH]
size both. But, when you're facing who's 200 pounds more than you,
whether he knows how to throw a perfect punch or knows how to transfer
his weight with that perfect punch, it's still 200 pounds more
coming straight to you. Whether it doesn't hit with full force,
there's still a weight that you have to move, that you have to
deal with. It's still a disadvantage towards you. Again, there's
a lot of factors, but to me this being the main one.
>> Especially over 200 pounds, if you get knocked out
with one punch.
>> Yeah, for sure, for sure yeah there's no doubt about it man.
Size makes a difference and so does height and weight and range
right. You find somebody with a longer range well becomes much
harder for you to enter, much harder for you to counter even when
you're faced against a knife attacker, because the guy has such a big range.
It takes so much more timing and speed for you to come in, okay?
Put on the helmet again.
[SOUND]
So I'm going to go now again. So now what we're going to do, I'm going to
very light, I'm going to strike, don't worry. What we're going to do
is we're going to do this same thing, now he's going to be doing the
same thing. He's going to come in with a punch, right, but l'm going to
be allowed to strike. So now again, there's three things I have
to worry about. I got to worry about his arm here, making sure he
can't move it. I got to make sure I trap so I don't break away then
I got to deal with both he's hands and then try to enter against
a guy whose much taller and
stronger than me. I got to worry about his fist and I got to counter
as quickly as possible. Objective is to counter and try to move
out of this off the side. The last thing I want to do is move into
his power box, right into this punch because this is his power
punch. So, I'm striking and then moving. So you're basically doing
four, five things at the same time, now which one do you do first?
Do you strike first, do you block first? It depends. I don't know,
it all depends on what he does first. Okay? But I'm going to allow
him to do the first strike first. Technically, you're put in a situation,
I'm talking, it's easy for me to go to preemptive, right? If I
decide to go preemptive my hands are coming up here if I'm talking
to him, and he's saying I'm going to beat the shit out of you, whatever
My hands are here. Strike here, strike there, move off to the side.
But what were going to do for the first part of the drill, the second
part of the self-defense drill is actually I'm going to be allowed to counter.
So all you're going to do, I'm going to go light, grab me, just start
throwing those punches. Once you feel two or three strikes or if
I say break
just stop, okay?
>> Okay.
>> [BLANK_AUDIO]
>> Whenever you want.
[SOUND]
>> Come again.
[Punches and Strikes]
Let's try with Rock.
[Code Red Defense]