How Do You Train For A Street Fight

[Mannie]

How do you train for a street fight?
Regardless of style, mindset and physical ability,
HOW DO YOU TRAIN FOR IT

[Chief Fox]

By getting into street fights.

[YuanZhideDiZhen]

by picking fights or by paying someone with fight experience.

[Mikkyou]

How do you train for a street fight?

How do you train to avoid a car crash?You can't.But you can be trained in First Aid,You make sure everything is in working order and your wearing your seatbelt.
I say this when we practice our techniques usually after I been punched sometimes bleeding"Martial art techniques are not 100% sometimes you get hit
sometimes maybe cut the goal is to make it home safe"Expect to be hit

[SanSoo Student]

You train in street fighter

[sk8fool]

walk around in a white robe, with a white hood covering your head. Unless you live in a place with all caucasins you will most likely get some training.

[BIGG S-MANTIS]

U Cant Train For A Street Fight. Being In The Streets Is Your Training, Because U Already Know What To Expect From The Idiots That Like To Start The Fight. Scouts Model "be Prepared"

[g0pher]

How do you train for a street fight?
Regardless of style, mindset and physical ability,
HOW DO YOU TRAIN FOR IT

You practice kung fu like you have no tomorrow. You could spar, but what are the odds of you getting into a fight with a guy on the street who has done Muay Thai or Karate for 15 years?

Just practice your moves and they eventually become instinct. With enough practice, when someone punches you, you react anon by going into a cross stance so the punch misses, or you run through a sticky hand drill with precision. And that is just a mildly experience student. When you get good, you just start punching the limbs of your attacker away. But of course this depends on your attitude. You have the killer instinct or you don't.

[Mr Punch]

When you get good, you just start punching the limbs of your attacker away.

You've never been in a street/bar fight have you?

But of course this depends on your attitude. You have the killer instinct or you don't.

And this is a different thing to what you just mentioned. You were talking about fine motor skills of punching small moving targets away, and now you're talking about the hindbrain instincts. Very different.

To get to the fine motor skills in a fight, assuming it can be done, you need an extremely well-disciplined brain to give you the objectivity, the calmness (maybe even describable as cold-blooded) which is where the monklike aspects would have to come in.

The killer instinct you speak of is what exactly? Basic survival instinct is fight/flight. It is not a killer instinct, it is a hit and/or run away instinct. Killer instinct is also cold-blooded, the instinct of a hunter. Hunting animals know their prey is just that, weaker and defenseless, and they (the hunters) can't think strategically because they are just operating on instinct, on patterns of behaviour.

Of course, humans were/are part-hunter. So assuming your survival instinct is fight/flight, at some point in any fight your attacker may become the weaker, your instinct may tell you to kill him. Our capacity to override this is what makes us human.

The only killer instinct you could therefore have is not innate, but learned. And that of a hunter in humans against other humans would be sociopathic/psychopathic.

[Mannie]

Well done Matt.
Your advice is sound and in accordance with my experience of 12 years doorwork.
Key points to remember:
1. Most street encounters start of verbally - if this is not handled properly then physical encounter is next.
2. The attacker most of the time has the upper hand - he/she chooses the time/place/method of attack (most martial systems teach self defence and not self preservation - self defence requires the attacker to strike first - wrong/wrong/wrong)
3. Most attacks are medium to close range assaults - this is most often a king hit
4. 100% of street assaults start standing up

- Aggression over Aesthetics
- Simplicity over Complexity

[bodhitree]

find someone smaller and weaker than you

[Vasquez]

You've never been in a street/bar fight have you?And this is a different thing to what you just mentioned. You were talking about fine motor skills of punching small moving targets away, and now you're talking about the hindbrain instincts. Very different.

To get to the fine motor skills in a fight, assuming it can be done, you need an extremely well-disciplined brain to give you the objectivity, the calmness (maybe even describable as cold-blooded) which is where the monklike aspects would have to come in.

The killer instinct you speak of is what exactly? Basic survival instinct is fight/flight. It is not a killer instinct, it is a hit and/or run away instinct. Killer instinct is also cold-blooded, the instinct of a hunter. Hunting animals know their prey is just that, weaker and defenseless, and they (the hunters) can't think strategically because they are just operating on instinct, on patterns of behaviour.

Of course, humans were/are part-hunter. So assuming your survival instinct is fight/flight, at some point in any fight your attacker may become the weaker, your instinct may tell you to kill him. Our capacity to override this is what makes us human.

The only killer instinct you could therefore have is not innate, but learned. And that of a hunter in humans against other humans would be sociopathic/psychopathic.

LOL if you think animals don't have to learn to hunt. Lions have to learn strategy as well as how to kill a prey. LOL at what you said.

[Mr Punch]

LOL if you think animals don't have to learn to hunt. Lions have to learn strategy as well as how to kill a prey. LOL at what you said.

Glad you're enjoying yourself. I like to spread a little happiness.

Now perhaps you'd like to explain where I said animals don't have to learn to hunt, and how it's relevant to the thread.

But BTW, lions don't learn strategy. You are anthropomorphising. Strategy is planning based on reasoning and logical deduction. Lions may instinctively have a rudimentary capability for strategisation based on behaviour patterns and they may even be able to pass this on to their young. This does not contradict what I said.

[Mr Punch]

Cheers for the clarification ewallace. We're talking about the same thing.

[Vasquez]

Glad you're enjoying yourself. I like to spread a little happiness.

Now perhaps you'd like to explain where I said animals don't have to learn to hunt, and how it's relevant to the thread.

But BTW, lions don't learn strategy. You are anthropomorphising. Strategy is planning based on reasoning and logical deduction. Lions may instinctively have a rudimentary capability for strategisation based on behaviour patterns and they may even be able to pass this on to their young. This does not contradict what I said.

Logical reasoning - lets see. If not A then B. At some stage a lion would figure to pounce a wilderbeast from the back not from the front (like where the horms are).