Hey, today on telegram i saw a video that was not very pleasant, an ex fighter (likely some sort of mentally ill person) was caught on video assaulting seemingly random people (sucker punches) later on the video cuts to him being shot in the back of the head by a young man. Would that young man be charged with murder?
Ok so for context I’m 17 years old, 6 feet tall, and 140 pounds, so I’m tall and skinny. There’s this guy, we’ll call him M, who’s also 17, he’s 6’4, and 215 pounds. M has made it very obvious that he doesn’t like me and has threatened to beat me up multiple times. On Friday my friend warned me that they heard him saying he was gonna wait for me by my car after school and beat the shit out of me, so I had one of my bigger more athletic friends drive me with his car over to mine, and I saw that he was waiting nearby. Now he wasn’t like right next to my car so I just got out real quick then hopped into mine and locked the doors, and I thought he’d left, but it turned out that he looped around the entire parking lot just to drive in front of me as I was about to leave to mouth shit at me and flick me off. I’m very grateful nothing happened but he totally was waiting there, and I’m scared of what would’ve happened if I wasn’t warned. I’ve already got pepper spray but idk what else I can do about this
I witnessed a pitbull attack a lady in a dog park. This incident really scared me as I have a lab myself and we often hike where unleashed shepherds and pitbulls (untrained with no off leash control) are a common hazard. I am a 5'2 woman (50kg) and while my dog is completely leash trained (no lunging, and doesn't bark/attack even when other dogs bark at him) I am concerned for my safety. I have heard of the choking method to break up a dog fight- linked below-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE8IjSRouuU&t=787s
I need advice, will this be enough for me to defend myself or will I need tools? if tools what tools would you suggest? I am looking into getting into some kind of self defense coaching but I fear my small size means that most martial arts would not be beneficial. (I am new to this so please forgive me if this sounds stupid)
(I am fairly athletic and have high endurance (cardio) but I am not much arm strength)
Family member I live with (father) sucker punched me 4 times in my head while I had my back turned to him during an argument where I told him to keep his hands to himself and broke my orbital bone. Charged at me while my back was turned and my mother was in between us (I told her to please step away) ended up being sucker punched full force with my back and head facing my father, I never fell, I just retreated out the front door as he was still throwing punches at my head. Entire right side of my face was immediately black and blue bleeding etc and I cannot see out of my right eye. I’m diabetic so I already have incredibly blurry vision. Just curious, as someone who has a CCW, would I have been justified to defend myself ? He has been abusing me since I was a child hitting me.. He has always known I will never hit him back as he will call the cops as he always threatens after he hits me.. I also have diabetes, epilepsy, I’m a disabled veteran due to major spinal injury and he has 50 pounds and 7 inches on me. I pay rent here as well if that matters. I am 30 years old and he is 57. Thanks in advance.
There's a lot of hype about martial arts and stuff like that, but I find it hard to separate the overhyped or bullshit stuff from the legit stuff. I wonder what the best all-round self-defensething is to train in, to learn how to take a blow without reeling and needing precious seconds to recover, or Alternatively learn how to avoid getting hit, preferably both. I don't want to destroy people, I want to be able to GTFO ASAP in a situation against one or multiple determined attackers even when exhausted or something. And before you ask, yes I'm taking up running.
I taught a monster Aikido techniques and unleashed him against a bjj black belt.
Video here 👇
https://youtu.be/PEISCGYnU_8?si=hHWzNBXP4227ygYz
How do you find these techniques translate to grappling?
I have spent years training Aikido Judo and Bjj, and have not only found a universe benefit, but I have built my whole style around it
Do you have anyone in the dojo that use these unconventional techniques for effective grappling.
I get a lot of messages of other practitioners that do
How do you feel this falls into the self defence topic?
I’ve been thinking a lot about self defense. Not because anything happened but because walking home after work at night sometimes feels… tense. I started looking up tips online to have idea of what to do incase of something happens and small tools on Alibaba like pepper spray or anything to be more prepared and I guess I never really considered how much confidence plays into safety since Im a girl. I’m curious like do other people take safety lightly until something actually happens? Some people are like this just like my brother experienced before, he was walking alone at night and someone followed him and yk they threaten my big bro to give all his belongs, phone and cash and now hes being cautions everytime he walks alone. I feel like being alert isn’t paranoia but awareness. Even knowing a few basic techniques or carrying a small device changes how you feel while walking alone. Has anyone else felt that shift where small precautions make daily routines less stressful? Am I being paranoid or anything. I just wanna be prepared yk yk. It is that strange how planning for something unlikely can give peace of mind in very real situations.
Was on the train and waiting for my girlfriend to jump on at her local station, she jumps on but obviously we have no idea which carriage she's on so I'm looking down both ends of the train trying to find her. I keep getting weird looks from a guy who's laughing and looking at me, not in a happy way but more like he's in disbelief I even dared to look in his direction. I start walking down the train away from him towards my girlfriend, ignore the guy because he's looking a bit off.
As I'm walking I get tapped on the back and he starts saying "You got something to say to me? You keep staring, watch yourself" and at the same time basically motions to something on his waist (assuming it's a knife since it's London). I just give him a confused expression as I look him up and down and ignore him to keep walking towards my girl. As I walk away he says "Don't walk away from me" and I just keep ignoring him because I know you're not really supposed to engage with idiots like this. I'm assuming he just has low self esteem and tries to act tough to make himself feel better but it was such an odd experience.
Did I handle myself alright? I can handle myself in a fight but obviously against a knife the odds aren't in my favour clearly. I disengaged and ignored him because I didn't want to cause a fight in front of my girl and potentially endanger her or others because so many weirdos carry knives around London thinking they're gangsters.
Me and some friends went out everything was fine and then at the end of the night they made some jokes at my expense and I cussed them out for it. They then texted our group chat talking more shit and one of them said something about fighting which I told her she let people do things to her all the time and didn’t fight. I asked her why would I fight her? But that statement is making me feel like a pussy. They said a lot of mocking things talking about my trauma. The night of I was kinda tipsy and didn’t read everything but now I’m feeling like I should’ve fought them it was her and her girlfriend ganging up on me in the texts calling me scary and now it’s messing with my mental. But I already blocked them that night.
The other night I (25F) got into a physical confrontation with a homeless man while walking to dinner with my girlfriend. I’m wondering if I responded appropriately? Basically we were walking down the sidewalk of an empty street when this man- clearly drunk or high out of his mind locked eyes with me and walked up on me somewhat aggressively. When I felt that he got too close to us (within arms reach) I put out my hand and shoved him in the chest. He stumbled back, but was still standing in front of me so I shoved him again at which point he stumbled into a street sign and started to walk in another direction. Should I have been more aggressive right off the bat? Or was this an appropriate reaction? I have pretty extensive experience in self defense and kickboxing but I’ve never had to put it to use in real life
Hello, i'm a french (so sorry for my trouble writing) night watchman working at a place where we give a place to stay to homeless people.
Since now, i worked at one of our places where i worked in an office disconnected from the "living areas" , and this office actually had 2 entrance so I wasn't feeling in danger there because i though that if someone wanted to cause me arm i could just run to the other entrance .
Now i'm working in a house and i only have a small office that is in the house, so basically if someone want to cause me arm, i'm just completely stuck.
And right now the peoples that are sheltered here are causing more and more trouble, it was just little disrespect behavior since tonight, and basically one dude threatened me.
Now i'm feeling a bit scared, so i wanted to know if you think buying something like a pepper spray could be a good idea, i just want something that would allow me to escape if somehow someone come with a knife or something.
i dont plan on doing self defense sport in any way.
I will be traveling as a solo woman, starting in a couple weeks, towing my travel trailer around the US. I’m aware that there are a number of risks in this trip, and I’d like to be as prepared as I can. So far I have bear spray, mace “gun”, and an assortment of knifes. I’ll be getting a taser as well. I’ll also have a ring camera outside the trailer door. I’m not familiar handling a firearm and feel it would be more dangerous currently having one in my possession and possibly using it. I’ll be sharing my location with a couple family/friends and checking in. I own an Apple Watch that has the emergency button in the side…
Anything else you can think to add or prepare with?
A lot of attacks will end up on the ground. Once running away is not an option anymore, do you teach people or learn how to do breakfalls so you dont get hurt while going down? Do you teach how to separate and get back to your feet? Do you cover how to prevent being taken down in the first place?
2 years ago at christmas I was with my godson's family on the bus and I was sitting next to the mother. She asked a guy behind is if he could be more quiet because the baby is sleeping and the guy started to yell back and harrassing her by words. I totally freezed and couldn't say a word. after a bit of time the father of the kid started to talk back who was sitting a few seats away. They started to yell with eachother and after a few minutes the guy hold back himself so there wasn't an actual fight.
when I was teen I got beat up a few times and later I was learning krav maga and thai box. I don't know how I could find in a real scenario, I want to think if he would have hit the father or the mother I would have been able to get in and fight back, but the verbal attack I couldn't do anything. I feel ashamed of freezing and it was 2 years ago and it's still with me. That time I was in a difficult part of my life and I was tired physically and mentally and I want to think also that was the reason, but I don't know. Now I am in a good period of life where I don't stress much, I started to do dancing where I have to lead and I am building my masculinity, but I don't know if it would happen again, then I would act differently.
What do you think, what should I do to improve my reactions in these situations and how should I get over what happened 2 years ago?
I want to learn self-defense but I can’t find a discipline that fits what I’m looking for
Hey everyone, I’m a bit lost and could use some guidance.
In my city (I live in Spain) I’ve been looking for grappling disciplines, and the main thing I find is Jiu Jitsu. The problem is that BJJ is great, but it has a million techniques, progress is super slow, and I don’t see myself learning 200 different submissions just to be competent.
I also looked for Olympic wrestling (like what Cormier or young Khabib trained), but here it simply doesn’t exist.
I checked out sambo, which is available, but sambo is very focused on grips and takedowns, and it doesn’t really prepare you well for striking on the feet. And I want something that also works against people who are going to throw punches at me.
For context, I’ve practiced kickboxing for a short time, and it’s useful — but the problem is: what if someone good on the ground grabs me and takes me down? I’d get dominated easily. So I feel like I need something more complete than just striking.
What I’m looking for is very specific:
Basic takedowns to put the opponent on the ground.
Top control to dominate them and be able to strike if needed.
A simple, effective choke (like a rear naked choke or something similar).
4–5 useful boxing combos and 2–3 basic kicks, nothing overly technical.
In short: I want the most important things from several disciplines without having to learn 1000 useless techniques. Just the fundamentals to defend myself well in a street situation.
Is there any discipline or approach that fits this? Or should I mix two or three styles but focus only on the basics? If anyone has gone through something similar or has experience, I’d really appreciate some advice.
My goal is to practice these fundamental and basic moves a million times and become a pro at them. I don't want to spend my time learning useless techniques and moved that won't help me on the streets
Thanks in advance
Can anyone give me some suggestions on YouTube channels that teach dirty, fight for your life, cqc type training. Im not interested in traditional, or sport fighting (i have experience in that) im talking cornered in a bathroom fighting a rapist or murder type techniques.
Thanks💕
I'm planning a college seminar and I'm needing advice on what practice to reach out to. Its for max 50 people and we have literally no equipment so would likely need to rent/buy that. What type would be best for this scenario? Krav Maga? BJJ?
Since the spine is a pretty vital part of the body what would be the practicality of attempting to paralyze an attacker with a hit/stab/etc to the spine?
