“Okay, good topic so far I was gonna stress staying on your feet so you can run away. The only thing with running I don’t like is your back is now facing your opponets.”
You can’t get away from them as fast going backwards, plus you may trip on objects you miss, etc. Then again, turning and running can trigger a chase where IN SOME circumstances it may be better to move calmly towards safety … sorry, but there’s no hard and fast rules. If I think an attempted beatdown is inevitable no matter what I do, I’m gonna run.
ESCAPE is ALWAYS your first priority.
“If they are as quick or faster than you that is bad.”
Yes it is. Staying there and attempting to fight them all is unlikely to be an improvement though. Generally they won’t ALL be faster than you, nor will they all be as highly motivated. Running away can string them out and reduce the immediate numbers you have to fight.
“I just recently read book of the 5 rings again and it has a lot of multiple attacker strategies. So I started thinking about it again.”
After you’ve read that, read “Strong on Defense” by Sanford Strong, and “Street E&E” by Marc MacYoung, which IMO are much more practical unless you have Musashi’s two swords and God-given talent.
“Grappling, in multiple attackers seems it could be very effective. It would have to be done a certain way, obviously don’t go the ground. I think some sweeps and slams to the ground would hurt your opponet and buy you some time while they are trying to get up.”
Not as good as ESCAPING.
"Enviroment is always good. I always had the idea of if there were cars around run by and hit them. Try to set off car alarms and such to draw attention to the area. "
Yep. A lot of this is covered in “Strong on Defense” .
“Phsycology has always been discussed but I have never really trained it. Act physcho, perhaps they will back down.”
Maybe. Maybe not (see below).
Rush one guy first and devastate him real bad quickly and then perhaps his buddies back off. Start speaking in tounges or whatever."
Taking one guy out if you can’t ESCAPE would no doubt give the others pause. Your loony act ight work. Or they might think a nutter will make an unreliable witness/victim who they can stomp with impunity.
A lot of Geoff Thompson’s stuff on “The Fence”, etc. deals with this sort of pre-fight psychology.
“Act like you have a weapon.”
Bit of a dangerous tossup IMO. They might back off, OTOH this might increase the level of brutality and ferocity of the attack - they might feel justified in pulling their own, now you’re in a multiopponent stick/knife/gunfight without a weapon rather than “just” a multiopponent fistfight. I’d rather act like I didn’t have a weapon when I was carrying and catch them by surprise.
but only if I could not ESCAPE.
The odds of you prevailing in a two on one situation against motivated attackers is slight. Against three or more, the odds are close to zero. Forget about fighting and ESCAPE.
