Real Street Fighting Moves

Go into a martial arts school and you will see pictures of the master meditating, stretching, doing forms and winning medals. However, should you one day leave the school and be attacked, the only thing in the world important to you will be your ability to fight like a street fighter. Being a good street fighter is what it takes to survive street attacks.

So, who is really qualified to teach you to fight like a street fighter? A martial artist who has never been in a fight in his life or someone who has gone out of his way to get a job that basically consists of him getting involved in fights that other people start?

I would say that the best instructors are either bouncers, some police or some military guys, but the most qualified to teach self defense to civilians are the bouncers. Here’s why:

1. Bouncers have the same (lack of) equipment as civilians–Attack a cop or soldier with a knife or gun and he will do his best to shoot you. Attack a bouncer with a weapon and he will be in exactly the same situation you would be in on the street. Some bouncers carry lead gloves, retractable batons or pepper spray, but most don’t and even those weapons are things that any civilian could obtain and carry. What a bouncer does when faced with armed and / or multiple attackers will also work for you because the circumstances are the same.

2. Bouncers are constantly fighting–Street fights and attacks are over so fast that, if someone is attacked and another person calls the police immediately, they can’t possibly arrive before the fight is over. Bouncers are there from beginning to end. True, some bouncers work for years in a high-class disco and never have to do anything to get their hands dirty. A good trainer would have experience in a place like I work in. Last week I was in three serious fights in one night. Ask your strip-mall karate master if he was in three fights in his entire life.

3. Bouncers have to rely on themselves–There are no SWAT teams or quick reaction forces for bouncers to call when they are outnumbered or in trouble. A bouncer can never back down from a fight. If he gets hurt, he has to ignore the pain and do the best he can. There is no referee to stop the match if he cannot defend himself. Exactly the same situation as you will be in if someone would try to mug or rape you in the real world.

4. Bouncers haven’t been there and seen that, they’ve been everywhere and seen everything–Most bouncers have martial arts or sport fighting training. Most bouncers don’t train in sports or arts anymore. The best ones have taken what they have learned in the gym, tested it on the street and combined it with the rough and tumble street fighting techniques that they have seen work, time and time again. This is the proving ground that has produced my concepts of street fighting based self defense.

5. Bouncers are masters of the mental aspects of self defense–Situational awareness, fear management, killer instinct, pain tolerance. The mental aspects of self defense are the most important by far and exactly these aspects are missing from the repertoire of 99.9 % of the strip mall martial arts masters or self-proclaimed self defense instructors out there, whereas 99.9 % of the real bouncers out there have mastered all of these areas. Some bouncers are fat, others skinny, many smoke, but they are still capable of constantly surviving every violent encounter they might face. How can that be? Well, without the mental edge, a bouncer has a very short career.

Christopher “Bob” Roberts is an ex-soldier who relocated to Europe and now earns his living as a tactics and close-combat instructor for military, police and private security companies.

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Fiona knows how to work it!

When we talk about self defense and self protection, we usually assume that it is between two macho men slugging it out.  But the reality remains that many, many women are also assaulted by men.  And a woman cannot be expected to go toe-to-toe exchanging blows with a man.  In fact, no intelligent male fighter should go toe-to-toe with an aggressor.

Though there are many possible techniques that are ideal for saving a woman from peril, here, I want to give you the single most under-used but most effective counter attack available to a man or a woman.

Let us first examine the type of self defense situation a woman usually finds herself.  Unlike that of a man, she is usually grabbed from the front or from behind.  Because a typical man is larger than the average woman, a great majority of male to female assaults involve a man encircling his arms around the shoulders or arms of the woman.

His hands are occupied, and true the lady’s arms are circled, but she does have something that is free and that is unexpected.  Her head.  One of the most destructive and devastating counter attacks is the head butt.

But let me carefully explain how it must be executed.  The area on your head that you must strike with is that part of the head that is maybe just a half of an inch or so below the area where the forehead meets the hairline.  This is the hardest area of your head.  Aim for the nose, and use the hairline area of your head as the striking surface.

When you smash into the nose with the right force, a total knockout is almost guaranteed.

So, be smart, ladies.  Use your head.

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How can a small, frail young girl, knock out cold, a much larger, more muscular, more powerful and “experienced” professional bouncer?  I’ll tell you how – the head butt!

Watch this incredible clip of one of the most effective head butts ever caught on tape.   With the head-butt, it doesn’t matter how young or how old you think you are.  If you can head butt, you can destroy any aggressor!

The clip is a real surveillance video and is therefore a little grainy, but notice the white arrow of the thumbnail photo which points to the foot of the head butting girl.

An Interview with Christopher “Bob” Roberts on The Head Butt!

Charles Prosper - In this article, Christopher “Bob” Roberts, expert reality-based combat instructor, ex-soldier, bouncer, body guard and police trainer is going to give us insights on one of his favorite techniques that he has used in real street fighting combat – the head butt.  So, Bob, help us out.  Give us 3 reasons why the head butt is so effective in a real street fight.

Christopher “Bob” Roberts -  Alright, well -

The 1st Reason Why The Head Butt Is So Effective Is Because The Hardness and The Weight of The Human Head Is Basically Similar To A Bowling Ball - If want to have an idea how effective a good head butt is, go home tonight, lay in your bed, and have your wife drop your bowling ball on your face.

Charles Prosper – (Laughter.)

Christopher “Bob” Roberts – And that is basically what it feels to be hit by a head butt.

Charles Prosper – Wow!

Christopher “Bob” Roberts – Okay, now -

The 2nd Thing Is Kind of Interesting in That You Don’t Need To Use Your Hands or Your Feet To Head Butt Somebody - That basically means that if we’re in a situation where you’re grabbing both my of my arms, when somebody is grabbing my arms, I can still effectively head butt.

If we’re in a situation where we’re grappling up against the wall or on the ground, I can still even though my hands are being used to hold you down or to push you away, I can still head butt you because I don’t need my arms or my legs.  It’s all head.

I know a lot of people not used to the head butt will only look for the arms or the legs.

The 3rd Thing Is If You Do It Properly, You Can Launch It Without Any Preparation Whatsoever - This basically means, people will talk about preemptive strikes, you do not have to prepare yourself;  you do not have to wind up.

You basically go from talking to a person – and then immediately launch into a head butt  that he will not see coming because you didn’t prepare for it.  You didn’t wind up.  You didn’t get ready.  And -

Charles Prosper – Now, Bob, I have one quick question before we wrap up because this is a confusion with a lot of people.  Where is the spot on your head that you strike with?  Is it the forehead, or is it the top of the head, where the forehead meets the hairline is?

Christopher “Bob” Roberts – It is right around where the hairline would be.  And if you’re basically going to come too high or too low, make sure you come too high.

It’s not anywhere near the eyebrows.  And it is not in the middle of your forehead.  It’s basically around where the hairline is, or about a half of an inch lower than the hairline.  Because other than that, if you go any lower than that, you risk the chance of cutting your own forehead, your own eyebrows and bleeding a lot into your eyes.

Charles Prosper – Okay, that is a very important bit of information, and with that we’re wrapping it up.  And again, thank you so much, Bob for these insights.

Bob – Alright, thanks a lot, Charles.

What is your experience or your take on the head butt?  Leave A Reply and Comment  below.  Thanks.

Respectively,

Charles Prosper