6 Hard Truths About How To Win A Street Fight
“How to win a street fight”, is a question that is always answered as if it’s you vs the other guy….but many times it’s not. If you see the example I gave above, you’ll quickly understand the importance of the lesson presented here. In a street fight, the stronger group is the one who ultimately wins, not the stronger individual. Depending on who your adversary is, you might win temporarily, but you’ll lose in the long run because you’ll need to face them or their associates/family again in the future. And when they come the second time…
A Brutal Introduction to African Martial Arts
When it comes to martial arts, we visualise somebody from Asia throwing kicks and blows, twisting arms, snapping necks, etc. What we don’t visualize is Africans doing the same, not because Africans don’t practice martial arts but mostly because martial arts in Africa is not exposed to other parts of the world. Thankfully, in recent times social media has exposed many African martial arts to the world.
Prioritizing the Wrong Things
Have they had any experience of using it, or even tried to use or get their hands on some type of training on using it, or are they just reviewing how good it looks and how “well” it works? Most of the tactical products or equipment are now sold based on this idea that “if you buy this, this, and this, then you’ll be good at doing it when the time comes”
The Making of Malaysia’s Toughest Men: GGK Special Forces Training
Born on the 1st of May, 1965, Malaysia’s Special Service Group (SSG) or more known as Grup Gerak Khas (GGK), is one of the most feared and respected units in Malaysia’s military branch. The first batch was trained by the world-renowned British Royal Marine Commandos. 1600 men volunteered, 300 selected but in the end, only 12 men left.
What made it so difficult to be one of the members of this elite group?
Best 5 Reality-Based Martial Arts Pages on Instagram 2021
If you’re scrolling through your Instagram (IG) feed and would love to see some good reality-based martial art and self-protection content, then we’ve got a few that share the best videos and posts on training. You can try searching on IG for Martial arts or self-defense, and you’ll get yourself roughly over 7.9 million posts (if not more) using that hashtag. That’s a lot, trying to pick the best pages from those can be exhausting. So, we did the work and bring you the best reality-based martial art training page on Instagram.
Banged up in a Fight? Do this…
Anyone doing any martial art or contact sport has gotten themselves banged up at least once, if not on a fairly regular basis. The purpose of this article is simply to provide some quick tips, tricks, and suggest some tools for promoting a speedy recovery.
Bitten in a Fight - What Happens Next?
Human bites sometimes occur in the context of domestic violence and sexual assault. Health care workers who work in with particular populations are also at risk of being bitten. Naturally, they can also occur during a fight, especially when an individual feels like they are losing and in an otherwise unrecoverable position. Clenched fist injuries happen when a bare fist meets exposed teeth.
Pencak Silat and The Future
In the age of advancing technologies, weapons industries, artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, is Pencak Silat training still as relevant and as lethal as it was? Can it still be counted on for self- protection? What are the odds of using silat and winning against killer robots or enhanced human beings? While everything is evolving rapidly, Pencak Silat MUST EVOLVE. Either the art evolves, or it dies, or you die.
Killers in Kevlar
Firearms continue to be one of the most dangerous threats faced by both law enforcement and civilians. This observed increase in body armor wears by the law enforcement community. The trend, however, is also observed in civilians and criminals. You’d be wondering “Isn’t it hard to get body armor?”. Armor, like guns, is easy to get, and bad guys are catching on. Nobody knows how many crooks, lunatics, gangs, and militias have acquired body armor.
Don’t Train to Fight...Train to Be The Last Man Standing
The real question that we should ask ourselves is not how often we train, but how effective? Are we really training to fight? Is it going to do us any good in a real-life violent situation where the consequences aren’t just losing points or losing matches but losing your life and your loved ones? Are we really preparing for that?
Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Ambushed
But have you actually tried fighting from a position of disadvantage? Rarely does one train starting from the positions mentioned, but that's the reality.That's where reality hits and bitch slaps you right in the face, that's when you'll realize that there's no such thing as dueling in the street.