| Anyone who has any real street fighting or | | | | hand? Is he holding it like he is drinking from it or |
| serious self defense experience will tell you that | | | | is he going to hit someone with it? Who is looking |
| the mental aspects of street fighting will save | | | | aggressive? Who is sizing who up? Constantly |
| lives, even without any physical skills or | | | | observing for hours on end teaches you a lot |
| techniques. In comparison, being able to do the | | | | about situational awareness, especially how to |
| physical movements that belong to self defense | | | | keep it up when nothing is going on. I talked to a |
| training will not help you if your mind game is not | | | | fellow bouncer today who said there were no |
| on-track. | | | | fights last Saturday at all until three o'clock in the |
| No one knows this better than a serious bouncer: | | | | morning. Then there were five in 90 minutes. It's |
| Situational Awareness--This is the job of the | | | | a good thing that he was able to stay alert after |
| bouncer, standing around and just noticing little | | | | the first five boring hours when nothing was |
| things: Is the guy talking to you holding a glass, | | | | happening. |
| bottle or another potential weapon? In which | | | | |