today we learned that when the fists
start flying you can't count on anybody
but yourself to help you thank you for
joining us on today's act of
self-protection lesson I'm your host
John Correa today's video comes to us
from New York City in the United States
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and I recommend it highly I have no
information about how this one starts or
what precipitated it but the employee
who is standing to the right in the
black shirt with the red stripe as
opposed to the employee who's got his
back to us is the target here you're
gonna see the bad guys walk in through
the door the audio is important so let's
listen in
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you ran those guys off and looks like
he's gonna go and get a little bit of
first aid again I don't know how it all
came out and if any charges were filed
or these guys were caught crazy stuff
and I got a question for you out of this
one
you know his coworker that didn't step
in would you have been mad at him for
that or would you have understood that
man he maybe he didn't have the skill
and it wasn't his fight to fight or
would you been upset I got to tell you
that's my buddy he and I are having
words afterwards but I'm curious what
your thoughts are once again I don't
know how the beef started but they
clearly had beef before and noticed that
our dude is looking over and he sees
these guys coming attention buys you
time and time buys you options but you
got to use those options effectively
seize these guys he's got beef with
before coming I'm telling you if you're
a tool user here and again it's New York
City so people don't carry firearms but
you can't carry an OC spray if you're in
New York City this is the time to get
that spray in your hand to get it ready
to get after these guys if you can
because now you've got options to do so
if they've caused you problems before
now these guys are gonna walk in and you
heard him say hey man you want to go you
want to step outside or whatever and his
answer was no but let's think about
what's coming I do want to see this pre
attack you see the guy hitch his pants
up like that when he enters his pants up
like that that is absolutely a pre
attack indicator this is the time that
he is going to go he's not hitching his
pants up in order to come and say hi to
you given that the fact that he's a
threat and all those things him hitching
those pants up says he's coming in for
an attack that's the time to step back
and hit him with the hot sauce you just
absolutely popping with your jerk sauce
with your OC spray at that point hose
him down that at least diminishes him
yes you might still have to fight him
but he'll be much less and the chances
are good he won't even want to do that
now next thing I want to notice is that
our defender here is backing up but
notice he has his hands down and our
dude has his pants up nope I want you to
get into that defensive fence and get
the hands up palms out hey man I don't
want any problems because he's
eventually gonna get there anyways
before the attack comes when he comes in
notice our dude hair gets his hands up
before the attack now what he did really
well there is he maintained his
reactionary gap so he had that
reactionary gap to get his hands up
would have preferred him to be up
already now what it gives him is it
gives him the ability to make that punch
miss because he pushed out with his left
hand and that let him change levels and
get a really good body lock on this guy
pretty clearly in my opinion the
defender here has some grappling skills
whether that was he wrestled in high
school or whatever
the ability to change levels grab that
body lock and take this guy down which
is what he did this first time says to
me that he's trained in some grappling I
can't tell you enough you should as well
have some standing grappling skills as
well as some grounded grappling skills
so he gets him down on the body lock and
top position in this particular case now
I know you know everybody's watched UFC
or whatever and they think that's enough
I can't tell you enough you got to
actually get on the mat and train this
stuff watching UFC is great and all that
but it's not gonna actually train you
how to defend yourself with your
attributes and your abilities so using
that top position
you got to gain dominance over this guy
and that's still coming now notice the
danger here of the second guy you notice
here as soon as we get this in and he's
taking him into a top position he's kind
of you know a lazy half guard here but
he's in a good spot however the second
person changes everything in real life
defensive encounters you got to keep in
mind that there's a second guy which is
one of the reasons I want to be a tool
user because that second guy makes my
grappling skills much harder okay fine
he gets after that guy - I think hits
him a couple times and now loses the
position that he was in but they're back
to their feet it's one of the biggest
things that you'll learn if you work on
your grappling skills and however those
look if you're doing samba or judo or
Jiu Jitsu whatever one of those things
that you've learned is you can't you
can't get emotionally invested in the
position that you had you can't say I'm
gonna fight from what I used to have and
I hope that it was good no you have to
just fight from wherever you are that
wherever we ended up right now I'm gonna
try to improve my position from here and
get me in a better spot now notice here
that our guys gonna go and bash this guy
into a wall I love this this is an
actual real environment and not a
sterile training environment so we not
only use our hands not only use our body
we use our environment as well and that
environmental weapon of slamming this
guy up on the wall getting him
disoriented and using that as a tool I
think's important I also want to think
about the second bad guy here and our
buddy
so his co-workers sitting here busting
around it's tough going oh no what am I
gonna do and he's not a self defender so
our defender is on his own even though
the other guy is is somewhat involved
now notice here as well
that there's dirty boxing going on that
our good guy here gets a really good
uppercut on this guy but striking has
its limits everyone even if you've
watched UFC you can see these guys will
hit each other crazy hard but if you
don't hit them right on the button
in the right way they can continue to
fight and continue coming so I do really
like grappling skills for real-life
self-defense and real life Street
encounters striking arts are great too
but recognize it can be very difficult
in real-life scenarios now notice here
he gets some space and this is a really
good thing against multiple attackers
he's using the counter top well he's
trying his best to get some space but
it's not gonna last forever if your tool
user the second you get that space you
have some dominance of positional
dominance to get after him another great
job here of changing levels and getting
a body lock now you notice here for the
moment he actually has a body lock and
the rear arm trapped so once again this
guy definitely has some skills of
understanding how to get in change
levels get after this guy it's not going
to complete the complete the takedown
here cuz the bad guy gets a vote as well
but he is gonna finally get him down
there takes him a little while to get
good drive on his part now notice that
our buddy does step in and he's gonna
grab at least this second guy off I do
want to talk for just a moment about if
you're on the ground there is a second
guy who is beating the tar out of you
and you're fighting one is this a deadly
threat absolutely this is a threat of
great bodily harm but if you got a gun
on you at this point you're not getting
it out you're gonna have to get out of
there and get some positional dominance
before that gun comes out particularly
there you can see he's in the bottom
position so you got to be able to fight
on your feet top position bottom
position those positions are going to
change quite a bit and especially in
weaponized environments like the public
is you got to recognize that we got to
have some of those skills in order to do
well I do think that our defender did an
excellent job here of protecting himself
as best he could against multiple
attackers now finally of course I do
want to talk about his buddy who didn't
help him as much as he could have and I
know some people are gonna be like man I
really wish that guy would have stepped
in number one they're just co-workers
guys and number two you don't know what
level of skill that guy has so unless
you know he's a significant trainee
unless you know that dude's out there
getting it on and and learning with his
empty hands as well don't expect any
help you're gonna be the one who
protects yourself and covers your ass