best "self defense"is to learn to live in a way that avoids conflict... ironically, most TCMA went from living a pretty normal life to being exposed to unsavory and dangerous people by studying so called "self defense"
best "self defense"is to learn to live in a way that avoids conflict... ironically, most TCMA went from living a pretty normal life to being exposed to unsavory and dangerous people by studying so called "self defense"
NO, totallly DISAGREE....
violence is violence
never noticed how many 'sport fighters" get into street and bar fights??
take a guy who has all that ring or cage experience against the guy who took a "self defense program" in a bar fight and the "sport fighter" eats his lunch
But is a bar fight self defense?
Take a sport fighter or SD guy, have them walking down the street or taking their girl to her car in a parking garage and have someone out-of-the-blue slam them upside the head with a brick. Then two of their buds start kicking the sh*t out of the guy as another drags the girl off to do who knows what.
people come in for a "self defense class" and don't want to get sweaty, they don't want to get hit, they don't want someone on top of them on teh ground grabbing at them... and all that is exactly what will happen in "da real fight"
I like to walk up to people in self defense seminars and just SCREAM AT THEM AS LOUD AS I CAN.... I haven't even touched them and most have their heart pounding and jump
idk - but Gene and I were just discussing an article in the busted MMAists thread about a gun/pawn shop owner getting smacked in the head with a hammer in his store while he was talking to the distraction (woman posing as a customer). And those clips I posted looked pretty legit - lots of people getting jumped by any number of thugs - the second is a guy getting beat down in a parking garage while one drags his woman away.
and I agree 100 % - SD is bullsh*t. So that goes back to my original question - is a bar fight self defense?
in your business you need SECURITY, especially if you are dealing in cash, jewlry or guns... not really "self defense"
As for a bunch of guys jumping you in a parking garage to "drag your woman away"... do you really think a self defense course is going to give you an easy out of that situation???
Where was the garage btw, detroit?
You'd think Detroit -
Gladwin, about as far away from anywhere as you can find. Super small town surrounded by a lot of trees and farms. Big Amish community there too. It's an area where people leave there cars running and unlocked when they go into stores. Half the people don't even lock their homes.
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