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Why Fighting Isn't Just About Technique
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| A lot of people ask me fighting questions. | |
| And fair enough, I don't fight anymore. | |
| I did retire from fight sports very young. | |
| I'm 31 years of age. | |
| I started kickboxing when I was 17. | |
| I was world champion at 23. | |
| I became four times world champion. | |
| I retired from fighting at 28. | |
| I then came back to the ring and I got a really bad poke in the eye, which is a very annoying way to end a career at the age of 30. | |
| So it should've been no contest. | |
| They're saying I lost. | |
| Whatever, whatever. | |
| And I'm still considering fighting again. | |
| So people ask me a lot of fight questions. | |
| I was an exceptionally good fighter. | |
| ♪♪ Good shot there from Tate! | |
| Fighting is a very difficult thing to learn because you have to reprogram your basic instincts. | |
| The human instinct to how to fight is incorrect. | |
| You lift your head up and you swing with your hands down to get power, and everything you do instinctually is completely wrong. | |
| So it's very difficult to reprogram your instincts on something, especially in fighting, because fighting happens very quickly. | |
| It's very savage. | |
| It's very fast. | |
| But when people do say to me, how do I learn to fight? | |
| I say, well, a few things. | |
| One, you don't just learn to fight. | |
| It's not like... I don't care. | |
| It's not learning how to fucking flip a coin. | |
| It's something you have to train constantly. | |
| And the second you stop training, your reactions slow down X amount. | |
| Secondly, to be able to fight effectively, you also have to be strong. | |
| You also have to be fit. | |
| There's a whole bunch of other things you have to do. | |
| Getting strong and fit, fine. | |
| To be a fighter, you have to get strong and fit, plus learn a bunch of shit. | |
| So it's not easy. | |
| But people often say, well, what martial arts should I learn? | |
| Wanna learn to fight? | |
| Be a boxer. | |
| This is coming from a kickboxer. | |
| I'm a kickboxer. | |
| And even I know that as amazing as my kicks are, they're pretty much useless in most cases of the street. | |
| I mean, in a club, I can't really kick. | |
| If I have jeans on, I can't really kick. | |
| If I slip on grass, it's a big, big mistake. | |
| I probably wouldn't kick in a street fight. | |
| It's happened one or two times to the groin. | |
| But in general, I don't kick. | |
| I use my hands and I win effectively. | |
| Boxing is the best for this reason. | |
| People always come at me with, what about wrestling or BJJ? | |
| Newsflash, BJJ is fucking useless outside of the cage. | |
| And when I say this, a whole bunch of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu players get triggered. | |
| They start going, oh, you've never messed with a BJJ guy. | |
| Actually, wrong. | |
| If you look at my career, I've been in the cage six times. | |
| I broke my hand in two of those fights, that's why I stopped cage fighting and continued with kickboxing. | |
| I fought Luke Barna, who's in the UFC. | |
| I've won by knockout many times in the cage. | |
| So I understand Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I trained Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and I fought against Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu professionally. | |
| But I'm telling you, for the street, for self-defense, do not waste your time with BJJ or wrestling. | |
| And here's why. | |
| The number one rule of the street is do not go to the ground. | |
| You don't know if your opponent has a weapon, like a knife. | |
| You don't know if he has a friend who's going to come along and kick you in the face. | |
| You don't know if police are going to turn up. | |
| You don't know if all of his friends are going to be running around the corner. | |
| You need to be on your feet at all times, ready to run to preserve your life. | |
| Rolling around on the floor with some guy is not a good idea. | |
| For the reasons I've named, plus more. | |
| Secondly, a lot of these BJJ moves are ineffective against the rules of the street. | |
| Yeah, a triangle choke works in the cage, but it ain't gonna work if someone can bite the fucking balls off, and an armbar ain't gonna work if they're taking a chunk out of your fucking skin, and these other things aren't gonna work if they pick up a rock and smash you around the head with it. | |
| You try and triangle choke a dude when he can pick you up and slam you on concrete, not an octagon. | |
| When he body slams your head on concrete, you tell me how you're gonna get away with that triangle choke without taking damage yourself. | |
| It's bullshit. | |
| All of it's ineffective on the street. | |
| And the most important thing, and this is the most crazy thing of it all, when's the last time you've ever seen a fair fight on the street? | |
| Ever. | |
| I've been in my fair share of street fights. | |
| I live in Eastern Europe. | |
| I live in a dangerous place. | |
| I've been to 60 countries. | |
| I'm telling you, I've never seen a fair fight. | |
| Every time I was in a fight, I was against multiple opponents. | |
| As a striker, as a combatant who can strike, I can deal with multiple opponents. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| You can get the best BJJ player in the world. | |
| If he's fighting two guys, he's going to lose. | |
| Because as soon as he tries to grab one up, the other guy is going to jump on his fucking face. | |
| So who cares how good you are at fucking this kind of choke, that kind of choke. | |
| You're going to get fucking grounded and pounded or head stomped and beaten up. | |
| Rules of Street Fights. | |
| Stay on your feet, use your hands, and be ready to go from attacking to running from your life at the drop of a hat. | |
| This is the advice I give you. | |
| You want to learn to fight in the street? | |
| Box. | |
| Do not fuck around with BJJ or wrestling because let me tell you something, it's a waste of fucking time. | |
| Anyone who thinks I'm wrong, I'll challenge you to the following. | |
| You and one of your friends come along and try and fight me. | |
| And I'll just use what I know, and we'll see how the fight goes down. | |
| I'm guaranteeing you, you're going to take some shots. | |
| I might take some shots, I don't know who you are. | |
| But either way, I'll be on my feet, I'll be moving, you're going to get hit in the face. | |
| Any BJJ guy in the world, no matter how good you are, you come and fight me and my brother at the same time. | |