...we are kindred paranoids old buddy...and believe it or not, that arm bar/leg sweep takedown stuff works...
Self-defense Tips
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My Dad was a cop and he did all of the things you mentioned.
I haven't been in a fight since grade school.
Choose your company well. You go out with rowdy, testosterone-ridden friends, people with bad physical attitudes, things have a higher likelihood of happening.
Walk away from trouble. A wounded pride is easier to salve than a wounded body.
Be confident. I know others have said it, but it's true. It's not that you'll scare anyone off. You'll just be a less likely target for an intimidator.
If physical action starts:
Leave, if possible. See "walk away" up there.
If you're in public, make a scene. Draw some attention.
Learn some simple tricks of the trade. Pressing to the right place in an armpit gets their attention. The ol' kick or knee to the jewels. Pressure point behind the ear. You can leverage them right down to the ground with one hand in their hair or on their head and one on their chin. A finger under the nose, with upward pressure, takes away their concentration. The knee, if struck with enough lateral force, will distract them.
None of those are really incapacitating (except maybe the jewels)(and the knee, with enough force). What they do is give you time. My kids knew all this stuff before they were teens.
And if you're fighting for your well-being or your life, there's no holding back. My self-defense instructor in college, the most skilled fighter I ever met, including the later Marine years, said, "If someone is trying to take away your rights, they have forfeited their own." Made great sense.
I like to face the door, too, and evaluate the people and situation around me, but the chance of someone just coming up randomly and assaulting me at a table is about 1 in 100,000, so I don't worry about it that much. I'm not Hickock. I haven't made the enemies that he did. Mostly for me, self-defense is keeping out of potentially dangerous situations.
Mostly. Then there was that time in D.C.......
Choose your company well. You go out with rowdy, testosterone-ridden friends, people with bad physical attitudes, things have a higher likelihood of happening.
Walk away from trouble. A wounded pride is easier to salve than a wounded body.
Be confident. I know others have said it, but it's true. It's not that you'll scare anyone off. You'll just be a less likely target for an intimidator.
If physical action starts:
Leave, if possible. See "walk away" up there.
If you're in public, make a scene. Draw some attention.
Learn some simple tricks of the trade. Pressing to the right place in an armpit gets their attention. The ol' kick or knee to the jewels. Pressure point behind the ear. You can leverage them right down to the ground with one hand in their hair or on their head and one on their chin. A finger under the nose, with upward pressure, takes away their concentration. The knee, if struck with enough lateral force, will distract them.
None of those are really incapacitating (except maybe the jewels)(and the knee, with enough force). What they do is give you time. My kids knew all this stuff before they were teens.
And if you're fighting for your well-being or your life, there's no holding back. My self-defense instructor in college, the most skilled fighter I ever met, including the later Marine years, said, "If someone is trying to take away your rights, they have forfeited their own." Made great sense.
I like to face the door, too, and evaluate the people and situation around me, but the chance of someone just coming up randomly and assaulting me at a table is about 1 in 100,000, so I don't worry about it that much. I'm not Hickock. I haven't made the enemies that he did. Mostly for me, self-defense is keeping out of potentially dangerous situations.
Mostly. Then there was that time in D.C.......
One of my colleagues I used to work with has been taking Krav Maga for about 15 years now. I've gone and watched him a few times at his demonstrations and local matches, he's an instructor also. Hands down, some of the most brutal combat I've ever seen. There is no points, no belts, they wear this protective gear called "red man suits" when they start going full contact sparring. They pretty much have to because there is NOTHING off limits from what I've seen. The only directive is to incapacitate your opponent in the quickest and most brutal way possible. It's a system designed to go thru multiple opponents, and by go thru them I mean kill them or render them unconscious at least, but mostly kill. I was very impressed with the simplicity of the techniques, but a bit taken aback. My son takes taekwondo, and it's like night and day compared to Krav Maga. Whereas taekwondo seems much more stylized and focuses on kicking, Krav Maga might focus on breaking someone's ankle one moment then gouging someone's eye out with your thumb the next, and using repeated knee strikes to the groin area, all on the same opponent. There is no "points" system, only the goal of complete incapacitation of your enemy. It's an effective system, very effective from what I've seen, someone was thinking on a street fighting level when they came up with Krav Maga.
The folks I talked to had different types of Krav Maga classes/courses to take. The one I was looking into was specifically on self defense techniques. I never went, but, like I said, looked up the videos and they seemed to have good ideas. But you would need to practice them, so, if the situation ever arises, you'd at least feel comfortable or know how to perform the technique.
Of course, we never know what we'd do in a situation like that. You can only try to be as prepared as possible. Thanks for the input, I have never heard that, but, my research on Krav Maga was limited.