Charles:

I vividly remember our recent telephone conversation about this movie and my feelings on the topic of movie martial arts (as well as this movie in particular). I must truly say that you are grasping quite well my RBF philosophy and concepts!

Now, as I know that you understand my take on fighting you should be able to appreciate when I say the only rational reason for Billy to take off those cowboy boots would be to launch one at the face of the attacker closest to him and use the other to beat the guy and any other attacker down with…..Not something I personally would use as a primary offensive but is the only reasonable thing I was able to come up with….better to just leave the boots on, with the hard heels and pointy hard toes and use some nasty low-line kicks and shin scrapes/foot stomps!

As far as good ole Billy heading outside to meet his challengers, well I would have employed to much more tactically sound options:

1: Escape and Evasion. Let them head outside under the pretense that you will follow. Then look for a back door and get out of dodge! A little Ninja escape methodology never hurts!!!

2: Again let them believe you are following them outside, if their is no secondary exit to escape from, find an effective improvised weapon, maybe a table leg/pool stick, folded newspaper etc…..

3: Make them wait outside for a bit, they (with their manly egos and all) will start to wonder where you got to and more likely than not will come storming in to “drag you outside”.

Now here is where the fun begins:

They all cannot come through the door at once, so as they file in ( a bottleneck method) you begin to clock them into oblivion one at a time with  vital target strikes using your improvised/expedient weapon….ducks in a row baby!!!

After the first two or three that you quickly dispatch….any others will think twice! Key is to hit hard and make it count, your only getting one chance here!

Yes Charles,I do believe you hit all of the points of error in ole Billy fighting. I like how you point out that yes it is Hollywood and there has to be a certain level of excitement to make the movie appeal to the masses….but we RBF guys know better!!!!

Be Safe and Keep It Real!!!!

David D’