I’m curious if anyone teaches their students or learns from their instructors how to avoid the conflict all together through micro-momentary expressions/body language or self-defense psychology?
My sifu calls it Mental Gung fu. so, yes, he’s taught us, me alot about using mental gung fu to avoid the conflict.
what is mental gung fu…? example. this guy follows me off the freeway into a grocery store parking lot. we get out of our cars and he starts bouncing around like he was bruce lee. I then in a very very animated fashion said “ooooo, its looks like you know …KUNG FU!” this gave him some real confidence as he thought i was going to be terrified. I proceeded in my animated way and said “it looks like you’re good, have some real skill”. he replied “yeah, four years b1tch”. Mind you i was at my 20 year mark at the time. so here is where i flipped the script on him. i stopped being anmited, looked at him dead in his eyes as i lifted my sleeves to my sweat shirt to show off my chinses letters on my forearms. then i asked him “did you ever stop to think…maybe HE knows something too?”
the look on his face instantly changed as reality slapped the sh1t out of him. he apologized reached out to shake my hand then got back in his car and left. this is not the entire method of mental gung fu, just an example of one situation.
mental gung fu is getting into the mind of the person attempting to assault you.
shaolin,
yes I teach adn have been taught situational awareness, I usually only teach this on a limited basis for men , but go into it in length fro woman as I used to teach a rape prevention class and this was one of the biggest parts of self defense for women.
When you train for the potential street encounter, your training must include weapons, in particular knives, sticks, chains and guns.
Training for the street also includes sparring against multiple people at the same time. I have a wall drill where one of my students is placed against the wall and cannot leave it while being surrounded by 3 guys attacking and even trying to take them down to the ground.
i agree with the above, street training is about what sanjuro said but alot morethan that. i teach my guys how to use everyday items from books, backpacks, pens, belts, clothes, and even how to use a garbage can lid as a shield against a weapon carrying attacker.
street training includes lots of scenario situations typical of actual attacks on the street. but its not only about techniques, its about learning to read body language, get in touch with their senses, mental gung fu, all the way up to having a planned escape route for that just in case moment. we also focus alot on the dirty tricks to gain advantage immediately.
yet, to be able to teach fighting for the streets, you must know the streets or it will all be guesswork.
On the streets, do you know whats even scarier than a psychotic aggressive attacker hellbent on hurting you? A HELLBENT PYSCHO AGGRESSIVE ATTACKER WHO IS POSSIBLY AIDS INFECTED AND IS SPEWING BLOOD IN ALL DIRECTIONS. true story.
another aspect of real world encounters is what can happen AFTER you lose. curb stomping, head smashing, unconcsious beatings are very real, this is how some people die in fights. Not the fight itself, but what happens after…THIS is why, generally, your focus is on surviving, and escaping rather than finishing. Finishing is a means to survive and escape.
If you are like me, you dont go picking fights, you’re good at not going to the wrong places, saying the wrong things, or putting out the wrong body language…meaning if you get in a fight, its very serious. If someone forces me into that situation, i WILL treat it as a threat to my safetly and life. Meaning I need to get away if at all possible. If I feel I cannot get away safely, and am in a position to take serious harm, I will pull my knife if I can, I will use it, and then I will run if I can.
A lot of people will look down on me for this, but I am not about to wait around for the law to show up so I can pay the consequences for being forced into protecting myself from someone who forced me into that situation. Whether or not I did or did not need to use a blade will not always be seen in the correct light in a court of law. Too many witnesses are the exception. But if I feel I can get away and not be followed up on by the police, I will.
A lot of people will look down on me for this, but I am not about to wait around for the law to show up so I can pay the consequences for being forced into protecting myself from someone who forced me into that situation. Whether or not I did or did not need to use a blade will not always be seen in the correct light in a court of law. Too many witnesses are the exception. But if I feel I can get away and not be followed up on by the police, I will.
no, thats the smart thing to do. its when you freeze and then get the beat down is the huge issue. but some of us know we can fight so its like “lets do this” when it goes down. especially when you know you have your friends around to prevent being jumped.
however, if you’re alone, the best thing to do is one look for the quickest and safest escape route while keeping your eye on the attacker or attackers.
[QUOTE=Lucas;1181116]another aspect of real world encounters is what can happen AFTER you lose. curb stomping, head smashing, unconcsious beatings are very real, this is how some people die in fights. Not the fight itself, but what happens after…THIS is why, generally, your focus is on surviving, and escaping rather than finishing. Finishing is a means to survive and escape.
If you are like me, you dont go picking fights, you’re good at not going to the wrong places, saying the wrong things, or putting out the wrong body language…meaning if you get in a fight, its very serious. If someone forces me into that situation, i WILL treat it as a threat to my safetly and life. Meaning I need to get away if at all possible. If I feel I cannot get away safely, and am in a position to take serious harm, I will pull my knife if I can, I will use it, and then I will run if I can.
A lot of people will look down on me for this, but I am not about to wait around for the law to show up so I can pay the consequences for being forced into protecting myself from someone who forced me into that situation. Whether or not I did or did not need to use a blade will not always be seen in the correct light in a court of law. Too many witnesses are the exception. But if I feel I can get away and not be followed up on by the police, I will.[/QUOTE]
I always carry a knife (spyderco or emerson).
The second last thing I ever want to do is kill someone ( the last thing being, being killed by someone or seeing a loved one hurt be someone) but if I have no choice…
definately dont want to kill anyone. at most i would want to put a hurt on…but the lame thing about cuts is a lot of times you dont feel them right away, especially if your hopped up on adrenaline and or drugs. i’ve pulled my knife on two people, both times that alone ended the problem. (they obviously didnt have a knife or didnt want a knife fight)
right now im carrying my crkt m-16, nothing fancy or special, but smooth and fast and a good lock on the blade.
I generally don’t carry a knife - I know enough about how to use them to not want to take the risk of killing or being killed over some stupid bull**** disagreement such as the price of a half-kilo of peanut honey cake.
lol thats not what the blade is for man. first off, i dont argue with strangers over trivial things like, what ever that is you’re talking about. the knife is there for when you do need it in that circumstance when you have no choice, you’re forced into protecting yourself at a moments notice because you just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. the 2 times i have pulled my knife were during unavoidable situations when i was walking home from work. everyones gotta get home.
if you havn’t been mugged, assaulted, been involved in home invasion, been jumped by a gang, been a target of a hate crime, etc. you may not see the world the same way.
[QUOTE=Lucas;1181134]lol thats not what the blade is for man. first off, i dont argue with strangers over trivial things like, what ever that is you’re talking about.[/QUOTE]
Seriously, the closest I’ve ever come to getting knifed was over precisely that piece of trivial nonsense. It was in China and I bought this stuff from a Uyghur. We disagreed over the price and he started reaching for his blade. I wasn’t armed; had I been the chances that “started reaching” would have escalated would have been much worse.
As it was cooler heads (his friend and my wife) prevailed.
its only half a lie. hu jin tao came from my neighboring village, but they used to bully him during the cultural revlution. now hes super big shot he sh1ts all over us.
[QUOTE=SimonM;1181140]Well that backfired on him then. I didn’t pay more. :p[/QUOTE]
