Observations about “street fighter” video

[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQYetHXRHgc

This video has been around a long time. I like to take these videos and break them down and note the good, the bad, the unavoidable.

[Damian (Instructor)]

Well the guy in the white shirt is agile.

The good: he took action and was able to keep three people off of him.

The bad: he was sparring.

He obviously boxed at some point in his life and his training did an OK job against a low level threat. Meaning the guys he was fighting couldn’t fight.

He was backing up and striking – this does not enable you to put power and body weight behind your strikes. Now if was looking to escape like in Module 5, he could have. But he wasn’t trained to escape or destroy – he was trained to box.

So he stayed and continued to fight when he could have escaped. This is what sparring instills in us. It trains us to engage and fight over an extended period of time.

He was lucky.

[Damian (Instructor)]

Who’s a freakin Jedi? :cool:

[JDNichols]

I agree Damian, if one of the three would have been a fighter he would have been in trouble, because the other two were just good enough to cause confusion and distract him. Or if the good fighter would have kept him so busy the other two could have taken him to the ground. He had several opportunities to escape and you could tell he had some type of training that made him stand a fight. The good thing for him he had some really bad opponents; he could have very easily ended up on the ground, on the wrong end of the shoe shine express.
Module 5 would have certainly shown him a better way to handle this type of situation. You know I always tell folk’s fighting is the last resort, a good run is better than a bad stand any day. That’s the great thing about our system it will make you a worthy opponent if need be, but it will also teach how to avoid and escape a situation like this which is always the best option.
You see this type of street brawl all the time some folks are not as lucky as this guy was, especially those who stand and spar. Sparring has no place in a street fight, sparring has rules the street don’t. Most times foolish pride overpowers good judgment like in this case, he could have escaped and didn’t. If he had no choice but to fight he should have been taking ground not stopping and waiting for another attack. When you have them down you either leave or keep them down. By backing away and allowing them to attack he gave them the advantage of momentum and when it’s 3 to 1 that’s something you don’t want to lose.
If one decides to stand a spar in a street fight they are just asking for a bad outcome. Foolish pride has gotten many folks killed or injured for life. In the street there is no referee or trophy’s to take home it’s a whole different fight. If you have to fight to survive, you should fight like a survivor, that’s what our system teaches is to survive not win trophies. I hear people say I am a black belt I could handle a situation like that easy. The problem is people fight like they are trained and most are not trained to survive they are trained fight with rules and regulations and neither rules nor regulations exist in the street. That guy was just lucky this time, hopefully it opens his eyes and didn’t fill him with foolish pride

[Damian (Instructor)]

Well said Jim.

The problem is MOST PEOPLE see this as good technique instead of luck of the draw.

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