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Andy Curtiss demonstrates a cool move of a combination round house kick, follow by a takedown and head-stomp.

Today’s Topic:  The 4 Secrets of Ground Fighting.  Combat fighting expert and former green beret, Andy Curtiss reveals to us how to survive ground fighting.

Charles: So, you’re going to take us tonight into explaining the four principles or the four secrets of ground fighting – when the fight goes to the ground.

Andy: Yeah, basically I have 4 principles that I’d like to use when I’m teaching my people how to ground fight.

The First One is The Ground Is Bad – You don’t want to be on the ground in the street or in a reality combat situation. The minute you go to the ground, you lose focus of all periphery. So, basically, you’re focused on the ground, and anything can happen. You can have multiple attackers come out and put the boots to you. They’ll stomp your skull into the ground. And you won’t see it coming, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So, the first principle is that the ground is bad.

The Second Principle is You Want To Keep Your Center of Gravity Below That of Your Opponent - No matter what it is. If you’ re on the ground or standing, you always want to keep your center of gravity, either over top of theirs or slightly lower, so that you can control their center.

The Third Principle is that Space Is Bad - You don’t want any space between you and the person that you’re fighting. The more space that they have, the more stuff they can do to you. And if you’re in control, space is bad. You want to suck up all that space, and just control every bit of it.

The Fourth Point is Anything Goes - This is the street. Anything goes. Whether you’re standing up or on the ground, groin shots are good. Biting is good. Bite the groin if you have to. Poke him in the eyeballs. It doesn’t matter. If you’ve got a pen, pull the pen out of your pocket. Stab him in the face with it or in the throat. Anything goes. As long as you remember anything goes, I think you’ll be alright.

Charles: Excellent. Well, there we have again, expert advice, real-world experience. Andy, thank you very much.

Andy: Thank you.

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Master David D’Antonio shows a quick and slick gun disarm through a car door.

Today’s Topic:  The 3 Things You Must Do To Survive A Gun Attack

by Charles Prosper “The Street Fighting Sifu”

On January 17, 1998, I got the call no father ever wants to get. “Hey man, it’s Bern,” my brother calls me, but with somber tones, so frightening, that I didn’t even want to ask him ‘What’s up?’

“Hey, Bern,” I say, “It’s a surprise getting a call from you so early in the morning.” An audible sigh over the phone. Followed by a long silence.

“David is dead. He was shot to death by one of 3 guys who broke into his apartment.”

At 29, my only son, a Navy veteran of two tours of duty to Iraq comes home on leave and is gunned down by 3 thugs with a long criminal record.

Gun violence is real, and there are 3 things you must know to give yourself a chance to survive.

The 3 Things You Must Do To Survive A Gun Attack:

#1 Thing You Must Know To Survive A Gun Attack – Develop Situational Awareness - Don’t walk alone in that alley late at night in a strange neighborhood when you see a suspicious individual standing in a corner behind a trash bind. Avoid situations that don’t feel right. Trust your gut.

#2 Thing You Must Know To Survive A Gun Attack – Avoid Any Unnecessary Confrontations With Anyone With A Gun Pointed At You - If they want your wallet–give it to them. If they want your watch–give it to them. There is no material thing worth keeping that is worth giving your life.

#3 Thing You Must Know To Survive A Gun Attack – Defend Yourself Only If You Know He Is About To Pull The Trigger – You have given your wallet and your watch, yet he still won’t go. You can sense from that nervous crazed look in his eyes, the rapid change in his speech and the quick and agitated sound of his breathing that now he wants to kill you – then you act – and act quickly.

While your hands begin moving up in the air in the typical palms out “I-surrender” or the “I-don’t-want-any-trouble” position – with any one of your hands–you hit the gun-hand either at the wrist or hand area, hitting it to the outside, lean your body to the side to make sure you are not in the line of fire. The gun will discharge at this point, so be ready to hear the crack or the pop of his weapon.

You must now quickly grab his gun hand at the hand or wrist–with both of your hands–and you bite. You bite the fleshy part of his thumb. You bite the fingers. You bite. You bite. You bite. You bite on that hand like a hungry pirana until he drops the weapon, as well you can slam the hand holding the weapon against your knee, a table or wall to release the gun from your attacker’s hand.

Now you must continue your vicious attack. You knee-stomp his knee at a 45º angle. You are trying to break the knee, and if you do the stomp properly, you shouldn’t have any trouble breaking it.

You elbow to the side of his face using the tip of your elbow aiming for the tip of his chin in a effort to twist his head in the opposite direction creating the high probability of a knock out blow. (This is close-range combat here.)

Nevertheless, you continue your attack. You grab him by the ears–you head butt hard into the bridge of the nose. You bite into the cheeks. You growl into his ear. (Psychologically, this will totally freak him out!)

You continue your attack unleashing all of the fury of hell itself–until he goes down! When he hits the ground, stomp the ankles and the knees various times so that he cannot get up. You stomp the head until he is unconscious. Now pick up your cell phone and call the police. End of story.

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An effective street fighting move for a police officer who needs to control an aggressor who is attacking his partner or trying to go for his partner’s gun is shown here in this “Martial Art Minute” by one of our fighting faculty, Christopher “Bob” Roberts.

Our Topic for Today:  The 4 Best Targets for A First-Strike Attack

Street fighting secrets are given by no one more skilled the reality-based fighting instructor and part-time bouncer, Christopher “Bob” Roberts.

Charles: Now our subject  in this interview post is on the 4 best targets for the first strike.  What are those 4 best targets that you can tell us about and can you go over them one-by-one for us?

Bob:  Yes.  Yes.  I can do that.

The Number One Target Is Probably The Nose

It doesn’t matter how strong, how much muscle, how much fat someone has, the nose is always the thing to attack, and if you attack high enough on the nose, you’ll cause blood to go into the sinus passages which will interfere with breathing and eyesight.

Charles: Humm.  Excellent.  And which would be the second best target for the first strike?

Bob:

The Second Best Target Is The Windpipe

The second best target is the windpipe because you can strike it, or you can grab it and close it off, and if you grab it, you can use it to control a person.  And with the windpipe, if you do strike the windpipe, the person will immediately start coughing and become unable to continue fighting.

Charles: Wow!  And what would be the third best target to strike?

Bob:

The Third Best Target Would Be The Eyes
It’s not as applicable to strike as a lot of people think and a lot of people teach.  If you could just lay your hands anywhere on someone’s face, you can find his eyes, and once you lay your fingers on his eyes, you can use that to push and pull him anywhere you want or to set him up for other strikes.

Charles: Wow!  And what would be the fourth best target for the first strike?

Bob:

The Fourth Best Target Would Be The Point of The Jaw
The point of the jaw is basically the lever or the button to use to hit, to turn the person’s head, shake around his brain and cause a knockout.  The reason why I didn’t put the jaw higher on this list is that is someone is extremely strong in the neck area, you might have more problems in knocking him out, but it is still definitely one of the four best strikes and the easiest way to knock somebody out.

Charles: Wow!  Thank you so much, Bob.  This has really been an eye-opener for the four best targets for the first strike.

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Our “Martial Art Minute” of today, shows David D’ Antonio counter a shoot.

Today’s Post Topic:  Ground Fighting

Can we once and for all separate the popular from the practical when it comes to street fighting? Can we understand that what we see in a sports oriented environment of a Mixed Martial Arts match does not necessarily equate to something that we would want to incorporate as a regular part of our reality-based street fighting regime? Yes, I know that it is very trendy by today’s popular sports fighting standards to want to take an opponent to the ground.

But Let Us First Define “Ground”

“Ground” in the Mixed Martial Arts Perspective is a flat canvas floor on which you can easily fall flat on your back – even with someone falling directly on top of you without necessarily causing you serious bodily damage.

“Ground” in the Street Fighting Perspective can be a multitude of hard, rocky and ruff surfaces that will almost always cause you bodily damage if you fall flat on your back, and especially if some big, heavy, angry, ugly, muscular guy falls on top of you. The “ground” surfaces can include rock, gravel, asphalt, shells and even broken glass. These are all dangerous surfaces to fall on if you can at all avoid them.

The 3 Reasons Why Attempting A Ground Take-Down Is A Bad Move in a Street Fight

Reason #1 – Once On The Ground, You Have Lost Your Peripheral Vision - When fighting on the ground, you can’t see what’s behind you or to the side of you: moving cars, objects, the attacker’s knife or other weapons.

Reason #2 – Hitting The Ground Is Hard And Dangerous - As alluded to above, the varied surfaces of ground outside on the street become, when you fall flat on it, a type of silent and unintentional weapon that appears to take on a life of its own “coming up to strike you” on your opponent’s behalf. You don’t want hard surfaces slamming against your back or your head in a fight.

Reason #3 – When On The Ground, Your Head Can Be Stomped To Death By Your Attacker’s Friends Who Appear To Come Out Of Nowhere - When you are busy occupying yourself with an opponent on the ground, you have definitely put yourself in harms way for any of your attacker’s friends who may show up out of what appears to be nowhere to come to his aide and finish you off.

So, The Rule Is Simple: Avoid Going To The Ground, and if you fall to the ground for any reason, make it to your feet as fast as possible and fight on your feet as you were meant to be doing.

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Here Norm Bettencourt is seen in action, a.k.a  “The Cannibal”.

This is an eye-opening interview with sensei Norm Bettencourt, reality-based street fighter, on the fascinating subject of biting as a defensive and offensive move.

Charles: I’m interviewing today, Norm Bettencourt, reality-based street fighting instructor who’s going to talk about a subject that most martial artists and so-called street fighters mostly avoid which is why you should bite when you fight. And so, first of all, Norm, tell us about yourself and give us a little bit of background about who you are.

Norm: Well, I’m a black belt and I run the only scenario based self defense training school that I know of right now, so that half of my training center is set up as a back alley and the other half has an apartment setting, and I teach people how to fight in real-world situations. I also have 15 years of experience working in the security industry, everything from bouncing to bodyguarding to doing regular security work.

Charles : Okay, here comes the big question: Why should one bite when they fight? Can you give us some reasons why, some tips why or secrets why?

Norm: For sure.

First Of All – Biting Is Primal – It is so barbaric that what happens is is that it causes a psychological response in your attacker. You see, what happens when you bite him is that he begins to get freaked out mentally. Why? Because he’s not use to that kind of thing. For him, he’s expecting fists and feet in that fight. When you bite, it changes the whole mindset of that fight that is going on.

The Second One – Biting Can Be Done From Pretty Much Any Position – All you have to do is sink you teeth into exposed skin, clamp down nice and hard, and you’re going to bite like a dog, and you’re going to tear that flesh. You can either tug at it. You can either shake your head, and rip that flesh off–any of these ways that you choose will always be an effective technique.

The Third Reason Why You Should Bite - It Works On Anyone, Regardless Of Their Size – You don’t have the variable that this may or may not work. It always works! It doesn’t matter if the guy is 350 pounds, you bite his finger off. You bite his cheek off or ear off, you get the same response. He lets go. He gets freaked out. You then have the fight completely in your control. And you can take him out.

Charles : Wow! Now that we understand that, if we have to, we will be doing much more biting and a lot more winning from here on out. Thanks so much for this, Norm.

Norm: You bet.

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