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watch the interview with the defender in
this one I've linked it in the
description it is a fantastic interview
that gives you all kinds of insights as
to what was going on in his mind and
what precipitated this this couple is
just home for the evening their dogs
have just gone out and one of the dogs
started barking loudly and that alerts
everything everyone that something's
going on the woman in the house is
actually in treatment for cancer and so
when the burglar breaks in here the
homeowner says man I just my why is big
and so I had to defend my wife against
these guys the first guy comes in he
gets the right hand of fellowship second
guy comes in he's gonna get some to our
good guy takes a couple of shots here
but that big right hand on the second
guy sends them out now he's gonna go
back now and run back to his kitchen cuz
the second guy comes in with a knife in
his hand you can see it flash right
there now then our good guy is gonna
come back out he has a knife he's gotten
out of the kitchen drawers that sends
the bad guys running off thankfully in
this instance now the wife actually
jumps down the stairs not sure exactly
why she did that comes out to see what's
going on thankfully she's on the phone
with the police well everything that
I've heard police are still looking for
these guys and that's where this one
ends boy he gave those guys the right
hand of fellowship and the left hand of
freedom incredible stuff there if you
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now let's get to them so from home
defense perspective the first thing that
we've got to talk about here is leaving
your door wide open I totally get it
that these guys you know they're you
have dogs and the dogs want to get out
and all that
I totally get that and having a dog door
or whatever is fine I have a couple of
dogs myself and I love my dogs they got
to go out and use the bathroom too and
stuff like that
however at night you leave your doors
open and even a back door can be an
invitation to a burglar this is an
invitation to them that says hey there
could be valuables available here and of
course you're not protecting the stuff
in your house but you are protecting
your loved ones so I can't tell you
enough closing lock the doors in your
house especially at night even in the
backyard if you live in any kind of a
suburban environment now you see this
here and this kind of square off and
this is a unarmed fight here at the
beginning this first gotta walk in is
not armed and our good guy isn't as well
in that moment you better know that you
have the empty-handed skills to deal
with this stuff now here in the u.s. of
course we might talk about doing
something like carrying a firearm in
your home or those kinds of things in
Britain he's just not able to do that
but one thing I did think that was very
interesting in the interview with him is
he said my Y was bigger than theirs so
we talked about attitude first at active
self-protection and this is why because
that attitude overcame and said nope
you're not gonna get me with that first
punch and now he's got a leveraging arm
on the bad guy talk about the leveraging
arm as a defender and how you have to
deal with it but as a defender you can
also use the leveraging arm to get
yourself in a position to use what you
have available and our defender here
only really has a big right hand it's
all he has in his repertoire well of
course I'd recommend you have a robust
empty handed skillset instead but he's
gonna use that right hand of fellowship
and give it right upside that guy's head
and he does so incredibly effectively
now one of the principles of
self-defense that we say with armed
combat is it the first person to put a
shot in the meaty bits of the other guy
almost always wins in a fistfight almost
always the first person to put a
meaningful hit on the other guy puts you
way ahead and they almost always win
it's the same principle first person to
get any meaningful hit I know Hollywood
has taught you that bit kung fu movies
they take 47 hits to go down that's just
not reality the first person to get a
significant hit almost always wins the
fight that's what happens here
notice as well that our good guy here
has a hold of the hood of the bad guy
and he's using that almost got him
jersey there but he's using the clothing
that he has one of the things that you
learn in grappling training no matter if
that's wrestling training or whatever is
that if you have clothes again you can
use them against that guy and that's one
of the you know founding principles of
jiu-jitsu that the the your opponent
brings your weapon
with them to the match and you've got to
learn how to use those clothes now of
course you can do that instinct surely
or you can do it with purpose and I'd
suggest that you do it with purpose as
part of your empty-handed skill training
that's important now second guy comes
into the fight a second person in the
fight increases the order of difficulty
by an order of magnitude it's about 10
times harder to fight two guys as it is
to fight one guy so you want to have
that attitude together the skills
together the plan together but the thing
that I love here that our defender does
is he doesn't try to fight them both at
once he fights one guy turns to the
other guy fights the other guy turns and
fights the one and then the other rather
than trying to crack their heads
together like coconuts like it's the
Three Stooges or something like that you
got to learn to barricade and blockade
when you're fighting multiple attackers
now the third guy comes in and again he
gets that right hand I just think that
the only tool that this guy has in his
toolbox is a big right hand
but notice how much power he's got
behind that right hand and one of the
things that we see all the time is
people squaring off in fights and that's
important however when it's time to
deliver power do you notice that the
feet the hips the shoulders and the nose
are all pointed where the power of that
punch is going you gotta actually kind
of learn how to throw a power punch that
actually does something wouldn't
surprise me at all if this guy has done
a little bit of boxing training or
something like that because that punch
is incredibly effective just watch as
the action continues how much it leads
that guy out and the first guy's
completely out of the fight at this
point he is gone and done now then you
got to watch the re-emerging bad guy
because the second guy comes back in
here and again as he comes out and we
stop it here you can see that the police
think that this was a big screwdriver
but a big screwdriver is just as lethal
as a knife just as lethal as a gun this
is an absolute deadly threat so you
better recognize against multiple
attackers it gets even harder if one of
them is armed so our good guy goes and
gets a knife now in Britain pretty you
know pretty problematic to use a knife
in defense it's actually a big cultural
thing over there right now
but if the you're facing a deadly threat
then you have the right to use deadly
force in order to stop that threat and
that's proportional and that's fine but
notice here that our good guy goes and
gets a knife and as he's headed out
there one of the bad guys has grabbed a
big old paving stone and is about to
bring that into the fight so one of the
big things that we talk about don't
chase deadly threats your best thing to
do here is close that door and lock it
put a barrier in between you and the bad
guys which gives time for the emergency
responders to show up it puts you in a
safe location allows you a moment to
think so even though he has a knife here
so he's got a force multiplier chasing
these bad guys out into where there's a
deadly threat is not wise and I do not
recommend it because of the additional
threat that it ensues now those guys had
run off and that's a good thing I don't
know what the heck his lady was doing
jumping down those stairs I really don't
know what that was especially given the
fact that she's undergoing treatments
for cancer however I do want you to
think with your non defending loved ones
with those who are close to you in your
life if God forbid you get into a deadly
force encounter like this one ended up
being I want you to tell them what their
responsibility is and one of the big
things here is don't come out where I am
don't join me where I'm at because then
I have to think about you in my
self-defense plan instead bunker down in
a safe place get behind a barricade and
get on the phone and get emergency
responders all the way instead she came
out here and that put her at risk and
also made her husband think about her in
his defensive plan which split his
attention when it needs to be a hundred
percent on the bad guys so teach your
loved ones what to do but the big thing
that we learned here is the importance
of attitude and because his attitude was
you are not going to take and hurt me
you are not gonna hurt my wife you were
not gonna get in my home and hurt us he
had would it take and and to muster that
rage to fight these guys off he backed
that up with enough skills that he won
the day even against multiple attackers
recognize how difficult that is and how
things can escalate and teach your loved
ones what to do as you cover your ass
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