so I was watching a one of your videos
you made many years ago I think last
week and it was one of your I think your
basic street fighting methods and also
the mentality animal died yeah something
like that yeah and it was fascinating
the way you talked about it because I
mean I've been training you know Thai
boxing Brazilian jiu-jitsu for many many
years and in a controlled environment I
have a certain way of reacting but I'm
not expecting a groin kick and I'm not
expecting what you said which is
somebody's mate punching me in the head
yeah well I'm on the ground with someone
else. So you made a great observation
someone walking down the streets might
kick you in the head having it all the
time even if you're mounted on someone
else and so I could just see everything
I learned in martial arts would actually
probably hurt me in a street fight you
have false sense of confidence I would
think oh I've got him down on the ground
in a choke I'm winning yeah and when in
fact I wasn't but I wonder if you could
just talk a bit more yeah but you know
again that was me you know. I've
got kind of got all of these fears and
one of them is that I'm a second down in
karate at the time but I'm still afraid
of confrontation and when I talk to my
teachers you know they they try and
encourage me to to solve that in the
dojo but the dojo is too controlled even
when it's hugely physical it's still
controlled they didn't talk about the
pre-fight, the in-fight, the post-fight the
the adrenal dump didn't talk about the
fact that someone's going to stand in
front of me and say you know I don't
give a fuck that you're a you know that
you're a black belt because I'm going to
find out where you live I'm going to come
around your house when you're having tea
with your mom I want to bite your nose
off and spit it down your fucking throat
so I don't give a fuck about your second
down and that terror of this guy not
caring he might not be able to fight the
tide in the bath but that come fact
that immediate confrontation of
posturing it triggers the flight
instinct in US and the flight instinct
is so powerful that I've watched Legends
run away from fights and bottled raglan
real fires that's the opposite of the
spirit of a martial art still jumping
tomorrow goes all about respect no one
would have said a tenth of that in a martial arts dojo
so in a way it
doesn't really prepare you for the
street so we we prepared people by
dealing with the most difficult thing
which was pre-a the most difficult thing
which was posturing and the reality of a
real situation which is close range you
may have maybe you've got 18 inches
because all situations are very close
and they start very close. preemption is the
only constant it's the only constant. It's
the only thing that works all the time
stirring up the fight by just the first
pic first doc says to hit first yeah hit
first and use artifice you know even
Musashi only had three preemptions he
didn't have any concept of blocking and
counting countering trap in encountering
because he knew that wouldn't work in a
real situation because the situation was
too close and too volatile so we said
you initiated it using by using
deception and then hit him first or
strike him first so his three
preemptions were hit them before they
think of hitting you. Hit them as they
think of hitting you. Hit them when they
twitch and I've done all three and I've
been through hundreds of fights doing that
and it's the only thing that works
consistently of course I'm a big
grappling fan I did full-time judo with
Neil Adams for a long time Chuck Norris
was quite a Brazilian Jujitsu he's a
really good Brazilian jiu-jitsu guy
people didn't know that about him but the worst
thing you could do in a real fight is go
to the floor because like say even
strangers come round and I've seen
people literally jump on other people's
heads and not even involved you know
you're on them you're on top of somebody
you're on the mound someone walking past
from the chip shop just presumes that
you're you're the bully because you're
on top and you get you know you get
you'd you're broke or you get hoofed in
the head and then loads of other people
join in or you get stabbed I've seen
loads of people stabbed by the
girlfriends by the mothers but you know
just by I mean I remember getting into a
situation with this guy once. It was a
match fight outside the factory which is
like a prereq prearranged one and one
yeah and four guys four neighbors came
running out from the house and because I was
dominating this guy it did end up on the
floor and you be a bit safer with the
one-on-one but even this I ended up on
the floor because I made a mistake these
people come out on the mother
screwdriver was going to stab me just
neighbors of this factory because they
thought I was the bully I was actually
was just actually an arranged match fight
so going to the floor is is in a match
fight or in a pre-arranged fight
obviously we know the grapplers always
win but when you start to include like a
pen knife or a sharp pencil or you include biting
or you include other people so other
people might get involved it becomes a
very dangerous place to be so we were in
thousands and thousands of violent
situations and no one ever went to the
floor no one kicked it was just very
close range preemption with artifice and
so some one of the preemption of being
vocal and projecting a real dominant
thing either dependent yeah that's the
posturing so if you didn't want to be
physical and you wanted to solve the
situation without being physically with
posture so you would create a gap by by
striking them by pushing them back ready
to gap you would posture you'd makes a
very big you'd balloon back and forward
you would salivate you'd swear you've
come into monistat monosyllables and the
main thing is that you created a gap
when you create a graph gap it triggers
the flight instinct and very few people
will come forward if you create that gap
and again we're talking about a
situation that might last a few seconds
we're not talking about a situation
that's going to happen over an hour you
know you trigger the adrenaline so hard
in them that all other interesting just
wants to run away and like I said even
really experienced people get caught by
that so you start to learn how to use
adrenaline you're controlling yourself
and you're using other people and you just
work on the stuff that works every
single time which is preemption
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