road rage is incredibly stupid friends
and today I have three examples of why
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today's active self-protection lesson
which is a compilation of three
different incidents of road rage one out
of Czechoslovakia and two out of
Australia in this first one which is out
of Croatia what we're gonna see here on
the left hand side is a silver car that
is gonna come in and cut off our dash
cam holder and then you're going to hear
that little horn right there that little
bit of horn was not defensive it wasn't
hey watch out for me it was punitive hey
what's wrong with you you're stupid now
I speed it up for the sake of time we're
gonna see this guy kind of roll up and
and not have any problems initially
right here but he apparently from the
original they stayed with each other for
some time and now this guy got a little
ways ahead and he's gonna wait up for
our you know guy with the dash camp for
our defender here and he's gonna now get
out in front and cut this guy off and
now make a stop now again guys what's
gonna go down here is now our guy who's
in the car that we are seeing the
perspective from is actually gonna get
out of the car now and tell that guy
that he is an idiot and that guy's gonna
drive off a little bit but then decide
nope he's not having it and get out and
and unsheath a collapsible baton now
he's gonna come off to the side we're
not gonna get to see what happens there
for a moment but he goes back and up
because now our defender has a firearm
in his hand this is Croatia it is
possible for private citizens to have
firearms they're a little bit difficult
from what I've been told it looks like
to me is he actually reached out poke
that guy in the eye clearly didn't use
the firearm on him that guy wasn't able
to use the baton so now what we're gonna
see is our guy with the car the we're in
is going to actually get back in and
drive off around the left and as he does
watch what happens with the guy that was
the aggressor here is holding his face I
think he got him with the I poked there
and then he's driving off now our second
one is a fight out of Australia and you
see this guy's going to come
and trying to cut everybody off and one
of the guys a couple cars behind is just
mad about it not having it you could see
him run up here he's just gonna run over
just punch him right in the face I mean
just kind of unprovoked he's mad about
it so our victim here is now gonna jump
out of the car and he's not having it
and notice there's a third party guy
jumped out of a different car out of the
passenger seat to see what's going on
with these guys as they engaged in a
good old-fashioned Donnybrook here a
fracas a brouhaha as they get after it
not particularly as skilled fighters
either one of them kind of playing slap
and tickle with each other but now the
guy that was the initial aggressor now
has two people getting in at him and the
guy in the orange shirt is just going to
give him what for and put him down on
the ground I'm gonna speed it up for the
sake of time because as many of these
kind of ego fights do they're eventually
going to tell each other you know to
question each other's inheritances and
their heritage and those kind of things
get in their car and drive off this last
one we have audio on so let's listen in
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there out of today's video I want to
think about number one the stupidity of
road rage but number two the value of
de-escalation escape and avoidance and
about the importance of having empty
handed as well as armed skills for all
drivers so it goes without saying that
road rage is stupid friends and that it
gets you into problems that you never
should have don't take things personally
from others and now one thing that I do
want to pay attention to here is
de-escalation escape and avoidance
because you heard that first guy kind of
to his horn now that wasn't a defensive
use in other words that wasn't hey watch
out man I'm right here that was you're
stupid don't use that that way instead
again de-escalate escape and avoid get
away from problems you know a little
simple wave hand wave and an apologetic
gesture can sometimes go a long way
because those little things this guy can
be you know mad about all kinds of
things and now what you see is is that
he's gonna wait up for our defender and
he's gonna go hey man you know he's
gonna want to have a fight and he has a
weapon with him he has a collapsible
baton which certainly could be deadly
force so let's think about that
de-escalation escape and avoidance
incredibly important instead of what we
see here which is going up to talk to
the guy and you know being aggressive in
your body language because that
escalated this conflict into a physical
conflict now I want to think real quick
about this guy here who has the baton
and recognize the fact that that baton
is absolutely could be seen as a deadly
threat so make sure that you're
recognizing this could be a good
defensive use of force at this point
because our bad guy is aggressive and
he's retreating so if you have a firearm
out don't get this close to somebody
friends this is stupid instead you know
these are the kinds of things that
should be avoided now it's kind of
interesting that he reaches out with him
and it doesn't look like he has anything
else in his hand looks like he's holding
his hat on because of the wind
and so we poked him in the eye friends
empty-handed skills incredibly important
on both sides here so that you don't get
an eye poked like that which can
definitely disable
and again could certainly have done
grievous bodily harm to him and instead
deescalate escape and avoid that's where
these problems come from now again let's
look at the second one here and these
guys road rage is stupid let's just go
right back to the idea again that this
guy's so mad that he abandons his car
from the driver's seat again I and
Australia the drive on the left side you
know and the driver seats on the right
it just comes over and punches a guy in
the face cuz he's so mad that he would
possibly offend him by trying to cut off
people in traffic and yes drivers can be
stupid and don't get me wrong I have
challenges with getting angry at people
on the road too but you can't let this
get to you folks you've got to have the
emotional fitness in order to stay in
control and and again these guys aren't
particularly skilled and so if you're
gonna get into you know a fracas like
this you better have the skills to
handle it of course you don't want to
get in these certainly don't want to be
the aggressor in these kinds of things
but if you have to deal with it having
some empty handed skills incredibly
important these kind of ego battles come
out like this all the time - everybody
gets a couple of licks in somebody goes
down that everybody gets up they say bad
things about each other's mothers and
then they drive off so again don't drive
like an idiot and don't get mad when
somebody drives like an idiot it's
almost never personal against you
finally I just think this one with the
bicyclist obviously the guy in the car
is an utter idiot for deciding to pull a
knife on this guy and you know the
original on this says that he faced a
fine or something I think you should
have faced in jail time for sure it is
the bicyclists you know they're there a
decision whether they want to stay to
the far left or if they want to stay in
the middle of lane because it's safer
for them they're considered a vehicle on
the road as well as a car you got to
watch out for bicyclists they actually
have the right away so you got to give
them that and this guy being an angry
idiot did not do that and that
precipitated a huge attack and I think
we should deplore this at all times I
did think the bike cyclists did a very
good job here is we see him rolling up
see this guy show up with a knife and
that could have been incredibly bad in
the get-go and you notice he drops the
bike puts his hands up and you could see
him man backing away on the left-hand
side with his hands up hey man I don't
want any problems or whatever and he
does a good job verbally de-escalating D
escalating with his body language
backing away from the bike backing away
and not engaging the guy and not
into a verbal battle with him that's
what I'd like to see if at all possible
that's great self-defense because every
fight that you stay out of especially
with an armed angry attacker is one that
you win so it's learning the lessons
here about road rage being stupid by
having some empty handed skills knowing
how to deescalate escape and evade so
that we can cover our ass
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