Real Street Fighting Moves

Mr Warren:

I must state that I’m not one to be easily swayed nor impressed, however your email is demonstrative of a true gentleman and professional. I fully agree with you and was highly impress when you stated:

” I find even my most harsh of my critics a shining light in pointing out different points of view and experiences. In analyzing them I am often further resolved in my original assessment but, I do, on occasion, find a kernel of truth and thus a way to improve my system of instruction and methods ….”

Words like that can only be spoken by a man whom is devoid of ego and a true master of his craft. What truly stunned me by those words is that I was speaking with Charles last night on the phone and was telling him almost word for word the exact same thing.

A master is born by understanding that his may not be the only or best way, and being able to take criticism, and apply newer and or better knowledge is key for growth.

I admired you before this, as your system is amazing, I RESPECT the hell out of you now because you have shown what so many few have been able to show in this business, that being respect, professionalism and humility.

Mr.Warren, I thank you for clearing this up and for what its worth, you have a friend and ally in me and my entire organization.

Respectfully

David D’Antonio
C.U.T.S. Critical Urban Tactical Strategies, Founder
Ninjutsu 10th Dan
Bufukan Ninpo Bujutsu SokeA Street

Charles, let me get your back on this before the frenzy of break dancers start piling in on you!

Now while the clip that you show in the previous post http://tinyurl.com/ybc6rep on Capoeira versus a boxer is from a movie, it is highly demonstrative of Capoeria in application.

Actually this guy moves better than most Capoeira practitioners…..but in a real fight I believe the results would be similar.

What everyone fails to realize, and you and I have spoken at length about this, is that these kind of guys think that flack wins a fight. What they don’t remember is while they are doing their little dance, the guy they are about to engage may have already produced a weapon and all the fancy moves can’t stop a bullet.

Now with that said, is is not a fatal flaw to showboat in a street fight, but get in there and immediately engage and neutralize the threat …that is how a street altercation is won.

Like I stated to you, I don’t teach my students how to fight, I train them to SURVIVE.

These fancy ass martial artists think they can dance about and go into their best hiii yaaaa pose and win a fight. That will get you shot.

You need realistic, non fancy, to the point take-em out techniques.

Great post Charles. Capoeria is great EXERCISE, might be very fun to do…but it is NOT fighting.

Anyone have an issue with me saying that can comment to me and Ill be happy to prove them waaaay wrong.

“Keep it real.”

David D’Antonio

C.U.T.S (Critical Urban Tactical Strategies)

kogawind@aol.com

Master David D’ Antonio

I have been doing a lot of thinking lately and have come to a mind blowing realization. That realization is that I must be doing something right. Here is why I have come to this conclusion:

I am 36 years old and have been actively involved in the martial arts since I was 5 years old, 31 years for those of you with no calculator handy! HAHA!

I have been teaching for quite some number of years now, and about ten years ago, a few people decided to go on a internet rant about how I was too young to teach, a fraud, no good at all and any other such nonsense they could come up with. I say nonsense because the majority of them had never once stepped into my dojo. This made me wonder how they could form such harsh opinions of someone they had never met.

This went on for a few years and at the time it really bothered me that people were saying all of these horrible things about me. I never showed them that it bothered me, but nonetheless it really did. It went from these people attacking my martial arts ability and credibility to making personal attacks against my physical appearance, marital status (being a single dad) and even a few death threats. Then after awhile it pretty much died down, other martial artists becoming the targets of these attacks.

With my popularity on the rise again, this time with much more zest than before, I have received a few negative comments. But funny thing, this time I actually loved the negative attention.  It was then that it hit me like a ton of bricks….

The reason for this is because I have seen over the past ten years that almost every MAJOR martial arts master in the spotlight has undergone the same sort of negative attacks from the same types of people. Those being JEALOUS individuals who can not stand to see anyone succeed. I had been included in the same group as the famous and prominately spotlighted masters. I am a success!

Now there is a serious difference between looking at someones technique and making a comment as to its effectiveness or tactical fortitude and outright attacking their character and ability. I will often give constructive criticism of a technique in hopes to open the eyes of the person doing it, should I see tactical errors that could get them killed in a confrontation should the same error be made. And yes at times I can be blunt to get my point across.

If a master chooses to contact me and has feedback or critique on my technique I listen because this is how we grow and learn. Any true martial artist should be open-minded and devoid of ego enough to not only accept but crave critique from other masters. However it is another story altogether to go on a slandering and insulting campaign against another martial artist. If you don’t like what they do that is your choice, but don’t attack them. Again there is a fine, yet quite defined line between constructive criticism and just being an asshole.

So with that said, I must take it as though I have finally made it. Seeing as all of the great names in the martial arts that have been the subject of critique and criticism and downright slander to all out threats, I am among a sacred fraternity of those whom others are jelous of and could only hope to be. This must surely be why so many criticize us so frequently.

Or we all must be just that damn good that we are constantly at the front of your mind occupying your thoughts and taking up your precious cyber-dojo time. Yes that must certainly be the case. Considering the fact that every successful and prominent master the world over has at one time or another gone under the gun of the critics, it must truly mean something amazing and special when I too have been included in the list of those criticized, it is like a hall of fame or a who’s who list.

So here is to the brotherhood of the best. It shows, you know you’re at the top when the others start to hate you.  Thanks for the criticism, thanks for the death threats (as empty as they are), thanks for making fun at me…it is because of you folks that I know I have achieved success and that you envy me. It just goes to show that insults are the best form of flattery!

David D’Antonio

“Be safe and keep it real.”

Click on the audio clip below to hear a 2-minute explanation by David D’Antonio.

Every fight has its own identity, its own life cycle like any living, breathing entity.

One of the reasons why pre-choreographed moves and katas give one a false feeling of readiness is that no fight pattern is predictable.   And no fight pattern could ever follow a system of steps such as those found in a form or a kata.

Even when you learn how to dance with steps: 1, 2, 3 and 1,2, 3, when it’s time to “get down”on the dance floor, something else must come into to play, something that cannot be “taught” in the traditional sense.  We are talking now about being “in the zone” or a state know in psychological circles as “flow”.

Your fight training practice must be done in an environment of spontaneity, surprise, non-compliant partners and an ever-ready state to adjust to whatever is thrown at you.  This encourages and enhances your ability to quickly and more easily get in touch with that ineffable state we call “flow”.

Charles Prosper (aka “The Street Fighting Sifu”)

What is your take on “fighting in the zone” or as we like to call it, “flow”.  Leave me your comments below.  Thanks.

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Master David D’Antonio’s C.U.T.S  “Critical Urban Tactical Strategies” Mobile Self Defense Unit

Master David D’Antonio is now available to train civilians in small private groups and police departments through our new “Mobile Self Defense Unit”  where we go to wherever you are anywhere in the United States or any other part of the world.

For details, contact me, Charles Prosper by leaving a message in the Comment section of this post with your question and contact information.  Thanks.

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Master D’Antonio demonstrates windpipe manipulation and destruction.

You are walking through the parking garage after a long day of work with nothing on your mind except getting home and enjoying an evening with your wife and kids.

As you get near your vehicle out pops a thug not only demanding your wallet, but you can tell from his sweaty brow, shaking hands and fast paced elevated speech that this guy is out for your life as well!

Scenario #1 (A Traditional Martial Arts Response)

Immediately you begin to go over all of the new techniques in your brain that you learned in class, and decide on your latest technique.   So, you take to the air and launch into your spinning hook kick you learned last week in your Tae Kwon Do class.

As your back is expose during this fancy spin, the thug pounces and pushes you to the ground, stabbing you repeatedly until the paramedics find you on the ground in a pool of blood.

Scenario #2 (A Reality-Based Fighting Response)

You are walking through the parking garage after a long day of work with nothing on your mind except getting home and enjoying an evening with your wife and kids.

As you get near your vehicle out pops a thug, not only demanding your wallet, but you can tell from his sweaty brow, shaking hands and fast paced elevated speech that this guy is out for your life as well!

This scum-bag gets into your personal space, and as he does,  you launch a quick offensive, striking with an open hand to the throat and grabbing onto his windpipe crushing and squeezing, latching on like a pit bull!

He drops to his knees as you hold on, and begin to deliver hammer fists to the base of his skull and knee strikes to the face.

Congratulations, you get to spend the night with your family and enjoy a nice dinner!

When dealing with a violent encounter, it is important to immediately neutralize the threat.

Decisive and debilitating counter offensive techniques need to immediately accomplish either the disruption of respiratory or circulatory system function, or both!

I will speak briefly on respiratory system disruption through the use of windpipe manipulation.

Windpipe manipulation can be accomplished through several means. I will detail three:

1:  Striking Trauma: Use open handed blows to cause shock and choking. Done with minimal effort, the windpipe will collapse thus causing unconsciousness and/or death.

2:  Digital Pressure: Use finger or thumb pressure into the cavity either to the side of the Adam’s apple or to the jugular notch, causes choking, panic, can easily drop the aggressor setting them up for follow up counter offensive attacks.  This will also cause unconsciousness when applied with proper force.

3:   Crushing: Grasping and squeeze behind the windpipe.  This cause internal rupturing, choking, almost immediate unconsciousness and/or death.

Respiratory System Disruption is a very effective tool for immediate threat neutralization – in a life and death encounter!

As Always!
Be Safe & KEEP IT REAL!
David D’Antonio, C.U.T.S. Critical Urban Tactical Strategies

What is your question for Master D’Antonio?  Leave your question/comment below.   Thanks.

Charles  Prosper  “The Street Fighting Sifu”

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’