Thank you for having me

[Marc Verschelden]

My name is Marc . I live in the province of quebec near montreal. I have been training in combatives with barry drennan from fairbairn protocol h2h . He is the one who introduce me to ww2 gutterfighting. I am interested in what ” works” in real life and have been learning , studying and practicing on “BOB” at home for years now. Thank you ,guys for being a part on my journey in self defence….marc verschelden

[PAUL]

Hello Marc,

It’s unfortunate that you’re asking the question of what works after years of training. The reason is that you’ve relied on others to tell you what to do, rather than engineering your own approach.

Understanding of anything can never come by way of indoctrination and repetition of instruction. It has to be built from the ground up by you.

First you create the framework, and then you can add other ideas to your already existing framework, where they naturally fit.

I think it’s best and easiest to reverse engineer violence. I’ve grown weary of these cute names and euphemisms for what is brutal, merciless violence and destruction of the enemy. Combatives, self defense, martial arts, hand to hand, etc.

We’re talking Violence. We’re talking about training you to be a killer. Morality aside – because you’ll decide for yourself when it’s appropriate to kill someone.

Which is what we’re training to do. Understand that any time Violence is employed, Death is likely. So rather than have Death be an accidental side effect, we intend death from the beginning.

This also serves to highlight the seriousness of what we’re doing. It helps to keep us from using Violence when death is not warranted. Grown men cannot just start attacking people for any reason, because death is possible.

Further, killing intent is the highest and most violent intent. Which makes it the most useful mindset, and the one most likely to see you thru to triumph. Which is measured in corpses.

I’ve been accidentally parroting Machiavelli for awhile by noting that beating someone up is unwise because they will want revenge. Therefore, if you attack then you should do so to kill them. Otherwise, be polite.

What works? Death. But more specifically, the ONLY thing that works is destroying vital targets on the enemy. How else will you prevail?

So start from the end, and work backward. I have a problem with just training to overwhelm an enemy with lots of strikes. This is inefficient and wastes energy. Like wrestling. It also puts you at the mercy of multiple assholes.

You absolutely must destroy vital targets in order to achieve anything. How you destroy these targets does not matter. Nothing matters except desiring these targets. The way you go about this is the way you feel most natural and comfortable doing it. You don’t have to use every technique out there. Use what feels best and most stable for you.

I could go on for hours but I will attempt to limit the volume here. Violence is absolutely not that complicated. Find and destroy targets. Practice Ruthless target fixation. Focusing on targets also keeps you from being distracted by emotions and words and so forth.

Target fixation also means other people. You see the targets on your immediate victim, and you also see any other potential victims. It’s their mistake for thinking the roles are reversed.

The other essential will be moving your whole body thru each target. For maximum force. Not just hitting at targets with parts of your body. But moving your whole body thru each target.

The drop step helps in this regard. Where your foot strikes the ground as your body strikes the target. This ricochets energy from the ground into the target. That energy is generated by your body weight slamming the ground at the same time it’s slamming the target.

It’s essentially a stomp with whatever foot feels natural to stomp at that moment.

The drop step also allows you to strike from anywhere with power, since you’re using the ground and not the wind up of your body. Which takes time and a lot more energy. So the drop step is also much faster and destructive.

The BOB training dummy is a bad idea, in my opinion, because it prevents you from stepping thru your targets. You end up practicing to lean over to strike, rather than step all the way thru. You want one of your feet to be moving past the dummy’s center as you strike, which is impossible with BOB. Think of occupying their space with every strike.

The way striking is taught in martial arts or MMA or boxing, etc, it’s horrible for actual violence. That’s basically playing tag. You want your whole body smashing into the ground and into your opponent at the same time.

For this to be possible, your foot will be hitting the ground right underneath the guy. Or past the guy.

You can practice the idea by just smashing your whole body into a Muay Thai bag with your hands behind your back. This would even work in real life if needed. Just imagine stepping thru a guy as your whole body smashes into him.

This also negate any offense of your target. They could be throwing a strike, or a kick, or thrusting a knife – whatever. But if you literally just stomp your body they theirs, you completely negate their attack.

This should be trained as a reflex to surprise attacks or sucker punches. Just immediately launch your body directly into theirs.

You might take a hit, or a stab, but it’s going to be one hit or one stab, and you will have stripped most of the leverage of that attack. Plus, it’s simple enough to deflect something as your whole body is moving thru theirs, rather than standing off and playing games.

With this approach they only get one shot. And that one shot loses leverage. If it ever connects meaningfully.

The other benefit of the drop step is that every time you stomp you are instantly resetting balance. When you’re winding up, unwinding, and swinging, etc, there’s too many ways to lose balance and power.

The drop step ensures that your strikes are going straight from the ground and thru your target. Instantly. No wind up needed. Changing direction just means stomping somewhere else.

Also very helpfully against guys who want to grapple. Because they make themselves buffets. But if you’re trying to strike at them the usual way then your strikes will only have power and leverage if they’re timed perfectly.

By drop stepping – stomp stepping, essentially – your strike has full power from start to finish, and it can have that power instantly from any angle. Even a two inch elbow strike is extremely vicious.

It’s important to enjoy the idea of brutally destroying evil men. This isn’t intended for anyone else. It must be fully enjoyed. Enjoyment brings out the best, and increased creativity. Not mindlessly repeating instructions.

The principles are simple. How you employ then is totally up to you. It will vary from person to person according to physical ability and what’s natural to them, and so forth.

In your mind, you must feel comfortable doing things how you do them. This applies to everything, not just Violence. Think it thru for yourself. You will be alone. You are your own instructor.

It’s also very helpful to prescribe things in slow motion, to get used to them. You feel everything the slower you go.

Sometime ago I got interested in learning languages. I didn’t make great progress until I slowed everything Way, Way down. Listening to the same damn sentence five times until I could hear every syllable. Speed is the illusion of progress, but you must build a skill slowly at first.

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast – and accurate, and balanced, and powerful, etc.

Imagine trying to learn a language just speaking fast from the start. It’ll be hit or miss. Like most approaches to violence. They can’t even call it Violence, so they’re full of shit to begin with. I’m going to learn Spanish, but I think I’ll call it gigglepuffs. Why? Cuz Spanish is scary or something. But gigglepuffs seems like something unicorns might like.

Being killed by evil cunt is not acceptable. They all deserve to die. And I intend to enjoy their reward for being born.

Fuck them all. That’s how you approach this. With savage glee. Then you merely increase your efficiency, so that you can kill as many as needed as quickly and horrifically as possible. Bathe in their screams.

Oh I’m sorry, this is supposed to be self defense. Fuck that.

Violence is a physical activity. So increasing your physical ability to move around also makes sense. But don’t hill yourself. Just naturally and gradually increase your physical ability as you can.

Also understand that God and reality already naturally favor the righteous man. When you accept this, then the breaks will do your way.

The only enemy of the mind is fear. But fear is not possible without guilt. And who is more guilty than your enemy? You may be imperfect, but NEVER allow your imperfections to be equated in your mind with guilt.

Guilt is reserved for them. Not you. You are imperfect. They are evil. The righteous are not perfect. They’re just not evil.

There is no fear without guilt. Period. So let the guilt rest where it will remain eternally. Not with you.

I could go on, but that’s enough for now.

You are a killer. Not a combatives practitioner. Evil men are natural born.. victims.

[Marc Verschelden]

Thank you for your insights. If i may , i would prefer awareness avoidance and to de- escalate a situation way before any violence. Self defense in my opinion starts in your mind and how switched-on you are when not home. It is not a matter of killing somebody or not even if we are more than capable to do so, but it is a matter of getting home alive and safe. If i was able through awareness and self control to avoid a fight and to get home alive i won the fight! Self defense is an attitude and a lifestyle but not a pretext to become more violent and more evil than the agressors . I agree wholeheartedly with you that if i have to hit first there is no turning back and no stopping until the threat is subdued but there are consequences to all violent encounters. I prefer a bruised ego and getting home safe than to be right

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