| I often get angry at the majority of | | | | aggressor doesn't matter to me and it shouldn't |
| self-proclaimed "master close-combat instructors" | | | | matter to you, either, as long as you survive the |
| trying to make a quick buck by selling impractical | | | | attack! |
| and dangerously ineffective "self defense training | | | | For instance, kicking range is supposed to be the |
| programs" to the uninitiated. Although there | | | | range where you are close enough to use an |
| certainly is some good material out there, it | | | | ineffective long-range kick, but are out of boxing |
| seems to me that almost every time that you | | | | range, or too far away to reach your opponent |
| see a self defense instructor trying to look like a | | | | with your arms. In boxing range, you are "allowed" |
| scientist and act like he really knows what he is | | | | by your instructor to hit your opponent with arm |
| talking about, he ends up just proving that he has | | | | techniques, but not allowed to kick, because |
| no idea whatsoever about what he's trying to talk | | | | you're supposedly too close to kick effectively. In |
| about! | | | | the clinch, or grappling range, you should only use |
| For instance, there's a lot of talk these days | | | | throwing and locking techniques. |
| about "ranges of combat." You often see an | | | | I don't know about you, but if I'm in so-called |
| instructor lecturing to his video audience about | | | | "grappling range," where I'm only "supposed" to |
| kicking range, punching range, trapping range, | | | | use wrestling techniques and I see the opportunity |
| grappling range and ground fighting. Then he goes | | | | to stomp on some degenerate's knee joint and |
| on to tell you what techniques you are allowed to | | | | tear various ligaments and tendons, I'll certainly do |
| use in each range. | | | | so and be happy to have survived the attack! |
| What's wrong with that? Well, let me tell you as | | | | Even if that means having used what another |
| someone who has not only a lot of experience | | | | instructor would have called "the wrong technique." |
| teaching self defense, but also much experience | | | | If an aggressor goes to the ground, whether I |
| dealing with street violence myself that the last | | | | tripped him or he simply fell, I won't hesitate to |
| thing you want to do is limit your students in their | | | | kick him while he's trying to get up and attack me |
| way of thinking! | | | | again. Ask me if I care about having kicked |
| When I teach someone to fight, I show him | | | | someone in so-called "groundfighting range," where |
| where to hit to get immediate effects and I | | | | I should have gone to the ground with him and |
| explain a few ways to effectively strike or crush | | | | try for some submission hold. Why go to the |
| those areas. Of course, there's a lot of mental | | | | ground if he's laying and you're standing anyway? |
| training and tactics that are also covered, but one | | | | To give him the opportunity to stab me with a |
| thing that you will never see me doing is telling | | | | knife that I wouldn't have seen coming from so |
| someone that he should not use a certain | | | | close or to give his friends, who weren't aware of |
| technique from a certain distance! | | | | the fact that kicks aren't allowed in "groundfighting |
| Listen, there are no "ranges of combat" on the | | | | range" the chance to kick me into a bloody heap? |
| streets or in self defense. There's damaging an | | | | The bottom line is this-if someone attacks you, |
| aggressor or aggressors and there's limiting | | | | your only job is to injure him as soon as possible, |
| yourself as to how to damage an aggressor, | | | | without being injured in the process. And I don't |
| which results in giving him the opportunity to | | | | care how you do it, as long as you get the job |
| damage you first, resulting in him winning and you | | | | done! |
| being raped, injured or killed. How you injure an | | | | |