"Tough Guys", MMA, Fighting, Self-Defence. The Primordial Truth. A Clarification
There is a lot more to say on the topic but I just wanted to clarify a few things since I have recommended you to train MMA and other martial arts.
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Today, I want to talk a bit about a lot of things, a lot of things in regard to martial arts and violence and fighting, etc.
And I thought to make this video since I've talked quite a bit about this as of late.
Of course, due to the deteriorating state of our societies, most of us who are watching this, I'm sure you can relate to it when I say multicultural Gotham City.
So, basically, since I have encouraged a lot of you to train MMA, Thai boxing, boxing, etc.
I want to make this video to clarify a few things.
And I also want to clarify something that have been something that's been bothering me for a while, and that is the mentality.
You know, tough guys having a tough mentality.
I personally have never claimed to be a tough guy, I've never claimed to be a warrior or an alpha or anything of the sort.
I do see myself as a philosopher prince.
So, when I talk about these things, it is as a philosopher of sorts, if I may be so bold as to describe myself in such terms.
But anyway, if I say to you that I can sink a battleship with my right crosshair, I don't say it because I want to seem cool or because I want to seem like a tough guy, I say it because it has some bearing in reality, it has some bearing in the primordial truth.
And it's a simple matter of physics.
I can generate enough force to generate a powerful blow.
And when I say sink a battleship, I of course mean it metaphorically.
It's from an Irish rebel song where they sing about a strongman who can sink a battleship with his punch.
And I thought it was a fun, fun metaphor to use.
So, basically, what I want to say is if you have some sort of tough guy who talks about his mentality or who thinks he's really invincible, what you need to keep in mind is that everyone can be knocked out.
Some guys are harder to knock out, and some guys are easier to knock out because of how they're built.
But ultimately, at the end of the day, you can get knocked out.
And this goes both ways.
I know full well that if I were to compete in MMA again, yeah, I will fight a guy similar size as I am, which means that if he lands a clean shot on my chin, I will get knocked out.
Therefore, I need to keep my hands up.
Same thing, you never know if you encounter someone somewhere, he might possess some real power in his fists.
So, therefore, you need to keep your guard up and not overestimate yourself.
So, what you need to keep in mind is that you should not underestimate yourself and you should not overestimate yourself.
So, keep your guard up in all such situations.
And also, if you need to deal with a tough guy with a hard mentality, maybe he looks really dangerous, maybe he walks around being really aggressive.
You know, it doesn't matter, his mentality will not save him from getting knocked out if you land a clean shot or if you land a knee on his chin.
He will fall asleep and then he will regret having been cocky and arrogant and aggressive.
It's just the way it is.
His mentality will count for nothing if you have a superior technique, if you have superior strength, power, athleticism, simple stuff, really.
And this, of course, goes again both ways.
Don't overestimate yourself either.
So, for me personally, I don't go around thinking that I'm so invincible all the time.
I have a very acute sense of humility that you know, if I'm not careful, if I were to fight someone, if I'm not careful, if I drop my hands because I'm arrogant, yeah, then bad things will happen.
And if you watch UFC, you can see this a lot of times: someone is really cocky, drops his hands, and then immediate karma because he has been arrogant towards his opponent.
So, that's the first thing I wanted to mention in this highly enlightening video.
The second part is when I say to you that you should train Thai boxing, boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, MMA, whatever it might be, you can train for two reasons: one is for self-defense, for predicaments on the street or wherever it might be.
Then, you can also train to actually compete in that given sport.
And this is it depends from club to club how they train, but you need to be cautious that you train all the time to accommodate for your goals.
So, if your goals are to just you know being able to take care of yourself in a tight situation in unarmed combat, yeah, then it might be a good idea to not focus so much on the sports-specific aspect of it all.
But you actively think, okay, is this something that will serve me well in a street predicament?
So, if we're talking about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, some guys might be comfortable jumping into guard directly.
But you know, try that on a pavement, and then your opponent's mate will come and kick you in the head.
So, you can't really apply a lot of these sports-specific techniques to a violent predicament that appears somewhere else.
And also, if we're talking about cardio, if someone said, Do you want to go a tie boxing match in a week?
I would say no because I don't have the cardio for it.
I freely admit my cardio is not up to par to fight for 25 minutes or even 15 minutes.
But that's also something you need to keep in mind.
Most predicaments will be maybe 15 seconds or one minute at the most.
So, you don't really need to have the same level of cardio as you would have for a Thai boxer who competes.
Now, if you are a Thai boxer and you compete in Thai boxing, I salute you, I tip my pickle hobby to you, and you will, of course, be in a very good position if someone should come at you on the street.
But if you are in a more tight situation in terms of time and you want to optimize just being able to defend yourself on the street, yeah, then it might be better to put on some mass.
Now, for me, if I got if someone said, you know what, you will get a lot of money if you fight in a Thai boxing match in two months, I would focus very much on cardio and very much on Thai boxing itself.
I wouldn't necessarily train any in the gym because it would be more important for me at that with that goal to have a better cardio.
But if we're talking about just handling yourself in a 15 seconds to one minute scrap, yeah, it's better if you have mass because the more mass you have, the harder you can punch.
Simple physics again: the more mass you can add into this punch, the harder it will be.
The higher chances that you will knock your opponent out.
So if you are in a situation where you just care about, you know, you want to be Batman in Gotham City because it's really rough, or if you go to a school that also reminds everyone about Gotham City, yeah, it might be a better idea to put on size and then add a technique instead of focusing so much on the cardio because I don't think you will ever be in a physical confrontation that lasts for 25 minutes.
Even though again I have massive respect for the guys who fight for 25 minutes, certainly not something I would want to do.
Now another aspect of your mentality and not overestimating yourself is that fighting is not rocket science.
It doesn't have to be more complicated than learning how to throw a left hook and a straight cross, throw a couple of knees from the clinch, maybe do some sort of judo throw or something.
But everything beyond that point, if you think that you in a real fight will use a lot of fancy techniques you have learned in Krav Maga and I do endorse Krav Maga, I've trained it in the army, I think it's great as well.
But ultimately what you want to do is you want to be able to do a few things and you want to be able to do them in a good way.
It's not rocket science, it's not particularly complicated what happens.
You want to be able to generate as much force as possible with your hands at a short distance to your opponent's face.
So instead of getting a false sense of security from dangerous forbidden techniques, they don't work.
They work against someone who doesn't know what you're doing.
Then you can do fish hooks and point in someone's eyes.
But if you look, try to do that against an aggressive boxer who is coming at you.
No, it doesn't work.
So instead of having a false sense of security by secret techniques, there are no secret techniques.
There are just the force you can generate in your fists.
That being said, of course, it's good to train Krav Maga for a number of reasons, but I'm just keeping it simple here.
You know, focus on the basics.
Same thing as I said in my video on female self-defense.
You know, you should drill in to your body, getting your gun from your hip, pulling it out, shoot.
If you do it, even the most timid and nice of girls will be absolutely lethal because you need to train your mind without thinking.
It's just a reflex.
You pull it up and shoot a gun.
Same thing if we're talking about unarmed self-defense.
Just drill in a few different things.
Combination of punches, left hook, straight cross, and another left hook.
Really simple.
Again, it's not rocket science.
It's not something that you need to overly stress about.
And again, these sort of really fancy techniques not something you should rely upon.
And also, if we're talking about grappling, I love grappling myself, but I also know if you end up on the pavement with your opponent, yeah, his two, three, four mates will come and kick you in the head.
So if you have a high degree of skill in grappling, you still can't use it all too much in such a situation.
One-on-one, of course, is a different thing, but you all know that in these situations, they don't really fight one-on-one.
So it's better to focus on your boxing, on your tie boxing, on your striking, getting it over with as fast as possible.
Then a last note on gym training.
I often say that gym training will translate very well into martial endeavors and we can just take a little fun example.
If you have a guy you need to physically move out of your way because you want to make space for whatever reason.
You know you need to get to one place to another place and if you want to push him that is very similar to a bench press.
So if you can have a strong bench press you will be able to push people.
Now of course this isn't something you could use in an MMA match but in a street predicament this sort of thing is really useful.
Same thing as picking someone up, physically removing him.
You will be greatly aided by a good level of strength.
Same thing I've said is before in terms of judo and street fighting.
You know if you throw someone in an MMA match on a nice floor it's one thing but if you throw someone on hard pavement with a judo throw yeah he will be in a world of problems.
Then also if we're talking about building a strong physique you will be much better at with withstanding punishment, withstanding punches etc.
Even such a thing as getting into a car accident, the more well trained you are the better your chances of survival and healing of course also.
So if I talk about you know the gym in regards to physical confrontations it's I'm not talking about an MMA match or a tie boxing match I'm talking about this sort of short confrontations that can happen anywhere.
You know you just want to push someone as fast as possible.
You want to grab someone and pull him away from someone else.
These sort of things.
Strength training comes in very very effectively.
So that is my little rant.
I hope it was somewhat informative at least but basically the takeaway points are the following.
Mentality accounts for nothing when someone lands a clean shot or when you land a clean shot.
So if someone goes around being all dangerous and cool, a punch on his button yeah, it will put him to sleep, no matter how cool he thinks he is.
Same thing.
Focus on the basics.
It's not rocket science, it's a few punches, a few techniques you can learn, the better you can do it.
And if you can get it into your automatic response on a stressful situation, Absolutely perfect, because then you can actually execute it, instead of focusing on some forbidden, dangerous techniques that won't work, because you're not fighting a training doll, you're fighting an aggressive opponent.
Then, also, if you get more muscular, more jacked, always better to always better than to not be muscular and jacked and strong and athletic.
And then, also, if you train a martial art, make sure it is congruent with your goals in terms of self-defense so you don't focus on the sport-specific training of it all.
