Making of a Jedi Warrior

mostly im using videos of people whose credentials can be verified rather than presenting my own viewpoints but i want to comment quickly on something that is common in muay thai tutorial videos and that is to address the way they drop one of their hands when they kick

my personal recomendation is to avoid this

most kicks can be executed well while keeping the hands up enough to at least reduce the likelihood of a punch landing on your melon while youre throwing the kick

the most effective "street" tactic used by the best "street" fighters is pretty much just to punch the crap out of you and keep punching no matter what until you stop

this is a good tactic
it works

it also means that in a self defense situation the first moments of contact will often be what you could call MUTUAL ENGAGEMENT

which is just like it sounds; youre engaging them and theure engaging you

the reasons for kicking are

reach and range
this means your legs are longer than your arms and as such you can use them to keep the other person at a distance

if theyre actively trying to dominate your space they will likely be throwing something at you - dont drop your hands lol

power

sometimes just one single well placed well timed kick is all it takes
be that a leg kick which causes them to buckle or a head kick that puts them out or a liver kick or floating ribs kick that crumples them or a well placed front kick to the solar plexus

of you meet the criteria mentioned earlier for good technique and you land your kick it will hurt like hell regrdless

weirdness of defense
most people - even the ones that like to start trouble, dont seriously train to defend kicks
if you are good at them and smart about using them, especially being smart (active) with your footwork, a few good kicks is all it will take

but again in a self defense scenario the expectation should always be that they are throwing an attack of thier own

fights in this context are often determined by who is more aggressive from the begining rather than by who is uskng "better" technique "who dares, wins"
so you want to cover your vulnerables as much as possible

even just lifting the shoulder and tucking the chin behind it can be the difference between a shot that simply impacts and a shot that drops you

so sorry for the wordiness of this but basically PROTECT YOUR CHIN lol

something you can do is just always train with your hands up - some coaches ect make beginers grab or cover their ears or hold their wrists in alignment with the level of their eyes or even hold their hands above their heads altogether just to drill the habbit of keeping the hands up

whatever you need to do to instill that habbit is worth it

quote from the internets

"My co-worker recently created this list; as I was reading, I couldn’t decide if I should laugh or be horrified by the reality that violence prevention tips are always aimed at what the targeted person should do (judgment strongly implied) to protect themselves.

Ten rape prevention tips:

1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks.

2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone.

3. If you pull over to help a woman whose car has broken down, remember not to rape her.

4. If you are in an elevator and a woman gets in, don’t rape her.

5. When you encounter a woman who is asleep, the safest course of action is to not rape her.

6. Never creep into a woman’s home through an unlocked door or window, or spring out at her from between parked cars, or rape her.

7. Remember, people go to the laundry room to do their laundry. Do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a laundry room.

8. Use the Buddy System! If it is inconvenient for you to stop yourself from raping women, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times.

9. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.

10. Don’t forget: Honesty is the best policy. When asking a woman out on a date, don’t pretend that you are interested in her as a person; tell her straight up that you expect to be raping her later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the woman may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape her.

i know this has been posted before but i wanted specifically to state and express that victims are not responsible before i move any further into prevention and response

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https://www.rainn.org/get-information/sexual-assault-prevention

quote from above source

"...some things you can do to help reduce your risk of being assaulted in social situations.

When you go to a social gathering, go with a group of friends. Arrive together, check in with each other throughout the evening, and leave together. Knowing where you are and who is around you may help you to find a way out of a bad situation.

Trust your instincts. If you feel unsafe in any situation, go with your gut. If you see something suspicious, contact law enforcement immediately (local authorities can be reached by calling 911 in most areas of the U.S.).

Don't leave your drink unattended while talking, dancing, using the restroom, or making a phone call. If you’ve left your drink alone, just get a new one.

Don't accept drinks from people you don't know or trust. If you choose to accept a drink, go with the person to the bar to order it, watch it being poured, and carry it yourself. At parties, don’t drink from the punch bowls or other large, common open containers.

Watch out for your friends, and vice versa. If a friend seems out of it, is way too intoxicated for the amount of alcohol they’ve had, or is acting out of character, get him or her to a safe place immediately.

If you suspect you or a friend has been drugged, contact law enforcement immediately (local authorities can be reached by calling 911 in most areas of the U.S.). Be explicit with doctors so they can give you the correct tests (you will need a urine test and possibly others).


What should I do if I am sexually assaulted?

Sexual assault is a crime of motive and opportunity. Ultimately, there is no surefire ways to prevent an attack. If you or someone you know has been affected by sexual violence, it’s not your fault. You are not alone. Help is available 24/7 through the National Sexual Assault Hotlines at 1-800.656.HOPE, and online at rainn.org


You have a crucial role to play in keeping your friends safe. No matter what the setting, if you see something that doesn’t feel quite right or see someone who might be in trouble, there are some simple things you can do to help out a friend.

Distract. If you see a friend in a situation that doesn’t feel quite right, create a distraction
to get your friend to safety. This can be as simple as joining or redirecting the conversation: suggest to your friend that you leave the party, or ask them to walk you home. Try asking questions like: “Do you want to head to the bathroom with me?” or “Do you want to head to another party – or grab pizza?”

Step in. If you see someone who looks uncomfortable or is at risk, step in. If you feel
safe, find a way to de-escalate the situation and separate all parties involved. Don’t be shy
about directly asking the person if they need help or if they feel uncomfortable.

Enlist others. You don’t have to go it alone. Call in friends or other people in the area
as reinforcements to help defuse a dangerous situation and get the at-risk person home safely. There is safety in numbers.

Keep an eye out. Use your eyes and ears to observe your surroundings. If you
see someone who has had too much to drink or could be vulnerable, try to get them to a safe place. Enlist friends to help you. Even if you weren’t around when the assault occurred, you can still support a friend in the aftermath.

For more ways to support a friend, see "six ways you can respond to a survivor".

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i want to add for those who arent aware that the longer a woman delays contacting the police the more difficult it is to prove in court

the natural immediate desire for most people is to shower after an assault but this will help the attacker to avoid prosecution

the more of his dna the police can recover the better your chances of seeing him put away (and i dont care what people want to babble on about women victimizing men, the vast majority of violent sexual assaults aka rapes are perpetuated by men, and against women to a greater degree than against other men, outside of prison or the catholic church)

http://www.wikihow.com/Prevent-a-Potential-Rape


this is about 17 minutes

she's not what some might call an "expert" but she is a woman and she is sincere and thats expert enough to be relevant imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMBsZClzqVc

if you look up how to survive attacks from various wild animals, once it has reached the point where fighting becomes your only option to avoid being killed, what they invariably tell you regardless of the animal is that you have to fight with everything you have got

you have to fight with more ferocity than the animal that is attacking you

that is how you convince the animal to leave you alone

some exploration in technique
this video has some harsh language but it is a very good place to start
8 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ7cLXQgB4c

i like this video and i like this woman (not to say i know her personally but that i respect her very much from what see)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L13PSj3hZE

and on that note i want to say that brzillian jujitsu is an essential martial art for rape prevention

thats not an opinion lol its reality

other systems may offer better techniques for getting away or for preventing but the body positioning of a rape is the exact body positioning that bjj specializes in.

9 minutes (this will look familiar if you watced the first "solo jujistu drills" video

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rape+self+defense

this has some good info as well
15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9sXESeKBik

im really not sure what more would be realistic in exploring this subject from within the context of a thread on the internet

if anyone has any resources which they consider quality and provides information that i have missed please jump in and contribute or send me a pm and i will add it here

a different interpretation of the roundhouse kick from the muay thai
9 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDfhFzGacsI

30 minute boxing workout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJG6pYHHTPA

capoeira is an excellent system for great flexibility, balance, conditioning, coordination, and powerful powerful kicks

im not interested in arguing capoeiras use in mma or "street fighting"

i lived on the street and ive fought on the street and if you want to use capoeira kicks in a real fight it is not at all impossible to do it, especially if you have good footwork and movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOUT-rCOWw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNYklGAr0Vg

this is a kick that has the potential to end a fight in one shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lod0b__u8h4

the last thing (until the NEXT thing) i want to say about sexual assault is that if the attacker is someone the attacked knows (and in most cases it is) then any further victimization that person commits because of hesitancy in speaking out is something to be aware of immediately

the trauma of the situation does not facilitate clear thinking and so some things need to be understood before hand


for best likelihood of the attacker being convicted it is important to GO TO THE POLICE IMMEDIATELY


"Q What questions do the police ask a rape victim?

Best Answer: The initial investigators will ask generally what happened and determine whether or not the victim knows who attacked her. They will ask her if she is hurt and will get her medical attention. They will ask the hospital or physician to collect samples of DNA and other evidence from the victim and professionals will document wounds, scratches, etc. on the victim's body if any are there.

Later the investigators will ask for a fairly detailed description of the attack and will ask for detailed descriptions of the attacker if the victim does not know the person's identity. She will also be asked to view photos of people that are known offenders in order to determine whether one of them was the person who raped her.

Source(s)
I was a victim of a rape by a stranger 4 years ago when I was 18."

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its common for people to not want police involvement

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/campus-rape-victims-choice-should-be-lawmakers-priority

this was supposed to be in the last set of videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8r-wH0dkk

warm up 6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrgPzp0GBcw

20 minute bodyweight workout

this guy helped restructure the fitness program for the parts of the U.S. miitary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5-uMJD8uw

8 minutes of awesomeness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3BZJsASoF4

stepping/skipping side kick - very powerful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu978bM46p0


tkd turning side kick and turning back kick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbiSAs3zSEY

spinning roundhouse (looks like spinning back kick at first)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijby_65ZxTU

jumping back kick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cxkTpVlVSI

chuck liddell

right hook 1:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BCU64CwmYc

overhand right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqf42bsTXnY

liver shot and more overhand right 10:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZGZNw0xAc

french savate (i dont know whats more dangerous, the kicks or the clothes!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMJed79-WoM

this last is about 4 minutes

the first kick (kick # 10)
he caught him at just the right angle to kill his leg
he hit directly on the knee and if you look close he caused the leg to crook in the wrong direction
this i think was partly because of the red fighters lead leg posture
the timing was important too in terms of how the red fighters weight was distributed

second kick (#9)
made me realize kicking is valid in places i didnt expect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwBe2UtVycc

sheepdogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW8BZ7pRt28


bulletproof mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX4k96Z4U5E


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FTV9nExiDE

doug marcaida does i belive kali - he is a big proponent of knife use and hes got a strong body of work
(check out his karambit videos)
this show is a head to head gun vs knife exploration
this first vid is an intro to the topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZC5B0D0C8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDPlWAq-11I

Ok I realize this may not be a topic on debating ways of fighting, and I havent been far in the thread, as I wanted to post this while it was fresh in my mind... I dont have much.... "proffesional" training in hand to hand combat, so this is all just something i have come up with when I saw it. The first video against knife attacks, in the first post, where he talks about the stance and way of attacking that he hasnt figured out a good way of countering... Again it isnt perfect but judging by the "attackers" stance and the "defenders" stance in this instance Id say going for the attackers knee with a kick would be the best option. You dont even need to kick persay... just place your foot on his right knee and shove as hard as you can... This not only gets the right side of his body (he held the knife in his right hand) further away from you... but has the POTENTIAL to incapacitate him, if he cant get up. I post this in the hopes of getting opinions... when I see things like that I enjoy figuring a way out.

a couple posts above yours there is a vid which says FRENCH SAVATE
its the one with the guys in bright green amd black spandex

maybe a kick like the ones their working is what youre thinking?

and for my way of thinking, a respectful.exploration of the subtopics and skills is fine

i just dont want someone comingin around telling people that the thing theyve spent half their life doing because they love it and it brings them happiness is garbage because some guy with camo pants or a gym sponsorship said it doesnt work "on the street" or because they havent seen it practiced in an ULTIMATE FIGHTER episode

(If this post is to out there or off topic let me know... when I speak of personal experience sometimes I get a bit out of hand) Well my thing is Ive always enjoyed fighting. Now thats a bit odd to say since I have never been in a real fight. In all cases which I COULD have defended myself... and I undoubtedly had the right to defend myself I chose to let things flow a different direction, sometimes for worse or better. But sometimes I just spend a bit of time thinking of scenarios... if someone were to come at me like this, or while weilding that... ect... and I debate the "opponents" openings and the best way to utilize them. When it comes to watching videos like some that were posted and I do the same thing almost naturally. Im the kind of person that knows I have the ability to defend myself in most scenarios ( I also practice daily on a 145 lb punching bag)... The way my mind works when it comes to fighting gives me a good advantage as Ive discovered when "play fighting" with friends, though obviously a real fight is a diffrent thing. That being said, Im very opposed, personally, to having to legitimately fight someone... I dont want to cause harm to others, for instance when I was younger, me and my buddy were walking around the nearby area because one of my favorite newborn pets that I had built up quiet a connection to in a short time had died. (It was the runt of the litter or newborn kittens we had) and some other kids out walking started yelling things towards us and harassing us. Me and my buddy ignored them and kept on only to discover around the next corner we had walked was a culdesac... I knew one of the kids, which is why when the confronted us, we refused to fight but we didnt turn our backs either, cause I knew he would go for it. The next thing I knew he grabbed my arm and started swinging at my face. I just used my free hand to knock his swings away from me, granted this was my first serious altercation, I had adrenaline going and to be honest I was having a bit of fun. Which led to me doing the wrong thing.... As he was swinging at me and I was deflecting his blows I began mocking him for it.... Later I realized it wasn't the right thing to do. Either way I finally got tired and let his swing connect where I wanted it to (theres a spot on your head where you dont feel as much pain when its hit or you use it to headbutt) and it ended the fight as he walked away holding his fist. The mocking was wrong, but I discovered that I could actually resolve a fist fight without the need of brute force. I know this post is pretty long, and not entirely related... but I feel that it PARTLY follows the title in a sense. In a scenario where I was already engaged in a physical fight with someone I chose what I felt was a better path (again aside from the mocking that Im ashamed of). Again sorry for the long slightly unrelated post, when I start talking about something I end up going on a typing rampage and make a big story of things.... But with a diffrent mindset when it comes to fighting, it seems possible to end hand to hand combat situations without exchanging blows

one of my general acceptances is that if you have to fight expect to get some sort of injury....

using that rule i choose the type of injury, by taking a hit in order to land a stronger hit or to use an incapacitating grapple...i've taken pretty hard hits on purpose just to do more damage than could be inflicted on me...plus once the first hit is out of the way the butterflies in the stomach go away....i'm not a fan of pain and if i'm faster than my opponent i'll simply bypass the pain part and finish things before either of us can really get hurt. of course i'm not afraid of pain either and have endured more than my fair share...i've been stabbed...it sucks, but the pain passes quickly when adrenaline is flowing...and the pain tends to fuel my anger....i've been hit by a car 3 different times....been bitten by a pittbul and a doberman....nearly severed 3 fingers....i know pain, both physical and mental...pain can be endured, it can be controlled, it can be purged....

OB1Shinobi wrote: a couple posts above yours there is a vid which says FRENCH SAVATE
its the one with the guys in bright green amd black spandex

maybe a kick like the ones their working is what youre thinking?

the points you bring up are totally in line with the topic

headbutting someones punches - if it worked for you thats cool, generally the consensus is that its better not to use your head to hurt their hand - im not being a smartss im being sincere

check out this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x44dnY5smUI


a little more on that note

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA3c8QGL4K0

also your post is entirely in line with the thread

looking back at that experience, replaying it step by step - what else could you have done differently?

is there anything you could have done better before the incident started?

is there anything you think you might have been able to say to prevent it from turning into a fight?

you mentioned that you had already met the kid

think of the times you dealt with him or saw him or when you met him

how did he treat people?

what kinds of things did he talk about?

take your time with these

just think about them for a little while at least before answering

Of course as with most situations, things could have always been handled differently.
"Is there anything you could have done better before the incident started?"
After the incident was over we hopped over the wall that surrounded the condo area.... it was only a 7-8 foot wall... we could have done that instead of standing in the culdesac debating what to do as they were walking towards us.
"Is there anything you think you might have been able to say to prevent it from turning into a fight?"
Maybe... they kept talking about fighting and we said several times we didnt want to fight until the point the one guy just went for it.
And on the topic of having known the other kid, I actually knew both, but the other didnt step in during or after the fight, so I didnt include him, he was the type that stood back and egged things on but didnt get involved, I went to school with this particular kid and his three buddies. One day in home room the teacher left for awhile to do something so everyone kinda got up grouped up and began talking, so I got up to do the same. As I walked up the row of desk to get to my friends several rows over and got to the front of the room one of this particular kids buddies walked up to my side and started punching me in both the stomach and back multiple times, then walked back to his buddies and they all started laughing. Thankfully I have a really high pain tolerance and he didnt seem to be able to hit hard and I just stood there and gave him a "What was that" look....

As for the other kid, I knew him from a swim team I used to be in... its hard to describe him... hes one of those that wasnt mean to anyone or anything persay... but always trying to make himself look cool to others, and I beleive thats what led up to that night...One of the more popular cool kids egging him on, and him wanting to prove he could be cool with them, or something to that effect. Looking back is a bit harder since the tension and situation was what it was, but I honestly beleive the outcome was gonna be a fight either way given the situation, like I stated in my first post, thats why I didnt turn my back on them to walk away as things went on BEFORE the fight...

those are good answers, thank you for taking the time.
i want to tell you something that i did when i was a kid - and i dont say "something that happened to me"

me and my younger sister were in a summer camp deal for the days while our mom was at work

we i guess were about 7 and 8 or 8 and 9 something like that

we were waking along and these kids yell something really nasty about our mom

several of them were bigger and i was not really excited about fighting them all

i tell my sister just ignore them and lets keep walking but they yell it again and she not only yells something mean back at them

but as soon as she yells it she starts running away

well when people run away people chase them lol

at least sometimes - you have to convince them to think twice about chasing you first somehow

so i run too but theyre catching up to us because we were smaller and especially my sister couldnt really run that fast

so i tell my sister to run ahead and go to this office that was up a ways off in the basic direction we were running and get a grown up and i stop and kind of cut them off so she could get help

when a few of them get to me one of the kids comes up and starts pushing me

now this guy was even smaller than me and i wasnt afraid of him

but there were three other boys with him and two of them were definitely bigger than me and i was definitely afraid

at some point i push the littler kid away from me because he started slapping at my face

well thats what the others were waiting for and the biggest one comes up to me and says "why are you picking on my little brother?" lol

i was scared

he hit me in the face

he hit me and hit at me a few times and the most i did was push him back off of me

i really dont even remember how i got away from these kids but it wasnt anything heroic or awesome

for a long time i was really ashamed of myself because i was afraid

now

the reason ive told you about this is because i want to show by example that i am not afraid to honestly look at myself and see where fear made me act in certain ways

i was afraid of the bigger kids especially the oldest brother

i remember he just really looked like a mean kid to me

he had these real dark rings under his eyes

anyway i wanted to ask you to think about what difference being afraid might have made in how you handled these situations you mentioned

like when the kid hit you in class that day

im not expecting or asking for you to share anything more personal than you already have

it doesnt even matter if you answer me

the important thing is that youre honest with yourself about how much of an influence fear might or might not have been in how you reacted to the different situations

also i think thats going to be the next sub topic i focus on

thanks for participating, ive been getting lonely in here lol

RyuJin wrote: one of my general acceptances is that if you have to fight expect to get some sort of injury....

using that rule i choose the type of injury, by taking a hit in order to land a stronger hit or to use an incapacitating grapple...i've taken pretty hard hits on purpose just to do more damage than could be inflicted on me...plus once the first hit is out of the way the butterflies in the stomach go away....i'm not a fan of pain and if i'm faster than my opponent i'll simply bypass the pain part and finish things before either of us can really get hurt. of course i'm not afraid of pain either and have endured more than my fair share...i've been stabbed...it sucks, but the pain passes quickly when adrenaline is flowing...and the pain tends to fuel my anger....i've been hit by a car 3 different times....been bitten by a pittbul and a doberman....nearly severed 3 fingers....i know pain, both physical and mental...pain can be endured, it can be controlled, it can be purged....

i know this is really dumb but theres this show MANSWERS and they did a segment on what to do if youre ever hit by a car

like how do you use your posture so that you maximize your chance to survive

basically what i remembered was that you kind of sideroll high up onto the hood

well i dont know exactly how long it was after i saw that episode but my roomate drover her car at me to eff with me (she was kind of playing she wasnt really trying to hurt me per se) and she assumed i would just get out of the way

but i had just seen this show lol and i knew she wouldnt be going so fast that i would get really hurt
so i just rolled up onto her car
she was going a little bit faster than i realized - she really expected me to get out of the way lol she was mad at me

i asked her why she was mad at me - "you hit me i didnt hit you"

not at all the same as what youre talking about but its what you reminded me of

i do have a nice little scar on my forehead (bout half length of my index finger) from a dude with a padlock in his hand and the ligament in my right shoulder was separated from an incident with someone i really shoulda known better than to mess around with lol got thrown into a tree

my first really great job - my ONLY really great job actually - was as a canvasser for an environmental organization FCAN and i have described myself for years as a tree hugging hippie

:::que alanis morriset backround music "its like RAAAAIIIIN":::

never been stabbed - never been shot
hope to keep that record

something about adrenaline;

when i wanted to learn about real life knife defense - this was quite a few years ago, the stuff out there now is not that bad if you look but this was maybe ten or twelve yrs back - people were saying stuff like kick the knife out of his hand then chop to the back of his neck kind of stuff

so i went online and web searched for footage of actual knife attacks

they were hard to find but a site that has been referenced here already comegetyousome or comegetmesome.com
they had real footage

what really suprised me was that i saw people being stabbed over and over and they were still moving as if they werent being stabbed at all
or the same way they would move if they had only been punched

i saw a vid of a girl get stabbed in the ankle and then kick the girl that stabbed her WITH THE LEG THAT JUST GOT STABBED

so i did more web stuff and i found a story about a guy who calls 911 and says "i beat this dude up - i was on top of him and i hit him over and over - i knocked him out i think - i think i hurt him bad there was blood everywhere

when the police arrive the guy who made the call was dead at the phone booth

he had been stabbed repeatedly and didnt realize the blood was his

which taught me a bunch of things over the years as my mind goes back to that but two main things are

always assume they are using a knife

and

if someone is using a knife dont freak out - focus

"whats the first rule of a survival situation?"

"dont panic"

i feel like i might be perceived as an internet tough guy for saying this and i understand how easy it is to say "dont panic" when someone is stabbing you from the safety of my keyboard

but it still stands that for most people stabbing with most knives it takes quite a bit of time to really stop someone definitively and the quicker you can just lock it down and act directly upon them the sooner you get out of that situation and the less they will be able to hurt you

point of fact i dont remember what the process is called but our bodies in intense situations like that have a mechanism which prevent instant bleeding in wounds

some wounds are just too large but puncture wounds will often not bleed profusely until the adrenaline has stopped flooding the blood stream

and

unless you have specific strategies for making it work quickly - a knife is not a good self defense weapon

the "unless you have specific strategies" is important

theyre excellent weapons if you only expect them to do what they can do and you know what that really is and develop tactics accordingly

but just randomly stabbing or cutting is not any better per se that what you can do without the knife except now youve escalated the situation AND used a deadly weapon

shoot im curious how many people cut THEMSELVES using knives in fights

anyway its the principle of researching how things really happen in actual scenarios and training specifics beforehand

this is better than the first one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fjMpn7JCJ0

oh and i meant to tell you also
in professional fights like boxing and mma if a fighter gets cut over his eyes they will stop the fight (if the cutman cant keep the bleeding in check - this is why GOOD cutmen are important to pro fighters)
they stop the fight because when blood gets into your eyes you cant see punches and kicks coming at you

like even if its only getting into one eye if someone throws a hook technique at you from your blind side it can - well - blind side you lol and really hurt you

so another good reason not to use your head to hurt their hands is because its easy to cut the scalp and that can result in problems

This might sound odd... but theres not a whole lot of scenarios I can think of where fear has changed what I should have done... Im kinda one of those people that relies on reaction and instinct... and usually instinct kicks in before fear has a chance to set in, in a sense. Its difficult to explain the brain I was born with... Ill react and do things before I actually know whats even going on sometimes... like me and my friend were screwing around... and we got this thing where when were asses to each other (in a friendly way of course) we hit each other... well one time I went to hit him and he managed to push my arm away, went to shove me, I knocked his hands away, so he went for a swing... my arms were in no position to defend or deflect the swing, so without even thinking about it I twisted my upper toso to the side and used my shoulder to redirect his punch away from me... Back on topic... one time fear actually stopped me from doing something or altered what I WOULD have done has been things like talking to cute girls (Im a bit shy towards girls in the first place, but then add fear of rejection into that mix...) or like I said earlier with fighting people... I have a... "fear" of hitting people cause I know I can cause some damage... like I said, my punching bag was 145lbs... it was originally around 95lbs... so I took out the stuffing and poured a 50lb bag of sand in there... this made it MUCH more solid and heavier... I practiced on it daily and even on a punching bag stand, with three other 50lb bags of sand on the legs, I could hit it hard enough to move the punching bag stand around. So Im actually afraid of hitting someone... I dont want people to think Im violent or something... but when it comes to fighting(the few scenarios Ive explained and a few more, plus wrestling with friends) Ive found that fighting gives me something Ive never felt before...it makes me, like...super happy... even with the kid in the culdesac, I was smiling and trying not to laugh cause I was having to much fun with it....

And another thing... might also sound odd... I grew up watching Naruto on cartoon network... This was back when I didnt have alot of friends and the ones I did have we were always the targets of ridicule or bullying in school. So watching Naruto I understood it was a fictional cartoon, but I understood the MORALS and other things being portrayed in it. And I think from a young age that has altered my view on self defense... When it comes to self defense or defense of others Im not afraid to stand up and take a hit for them, or do what it takes to ensure their safety over mine if need be. Oh.. and I wasnt to worried about getting hit on the head that night, I had been deflecting his swings for several minutes and could judge his power.

Im not trying to turn this into some sort of brag-fest saying I can do this and that really... but I dont get many chances to talk about the few encounters I had or the ability to talk to someone about how my brain works with stuff like this, without people looking like Im crazy, or just telling me I have a big ego and all Im doing is bragging.... so its kinda refreshing to be able to talk about it a bit...

Again sorry for the long post... Ive gotten into the basics of several forms of programming awhile back... then got into video game coding for a website called byond, and had several games, that were other peoples creations, but I redid them or added to them, or a few started up creations of my own that never got finished...so when it comes to typing, I just have at it...

heres the first fear video

its under ten minutes and has some excellent info - coincidentally he sort of explains that process i mentioned last post about not bleeding right away

some language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fogu_zWRXU

also heres a specific tactic he gives for dealing with a crappy situation - also under ten minutes - also language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2yo_sAQbg


this guy talks a little too much but he says great stuff
coincidentally he also mentions the guy in the last two videos lol
12 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3w4jsgH4s0


about fifteen minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDo1EIOqG3k