This post builds on the recent multiple attackers series of posts with further real life and training video’s. Not all of these examples are as good as those in th original series, although lessons can be taken from these, both good and bad. Multiple Attackers Videos Racist attack in fast food car park The skill level of the protagonists in this video are much more comparable than in the Turkish video in the first...
A subject of relevance for all regardless of any martial arts participation. A recent story on Radio Five Live detailed how two blokes chased another, beat him with a cricket bat and a metal pole, rendering permanent brain damage; the cricket bat actually broke in three pieces! The accused, two brothers, were sent to jail after being found guilty of GBH with intent. An open and shut case, fair enough, but was it? The...
This is the first of two posts that describe the wonders of the human response to stress. Many people in martial arts refer to the stress response (or freeze, fight or flight) in a pretty negative manner. ‘Adrenaline dump’ is a term used to highlight a detrimental natural phenomenon that needs to be overcome during a self-defence situation. In fact, the stress response involves a complex integration of the body’s systems involving a powerful...
Knife Crime Info Somebody put this brutal video (see below) on Facebook. It’s a pretty vicious knife attack perpetrated by a clearly psychotic criminal, who attacks everyone in a shop. This incident does not seem to be financially motivated, there’s no opportunity to hand over any cash, it’s simply attack, attack, attack! Maniac rather than robber. Obviously, the outcome was a lot better than it might have been. It’ not difficult to imagine a...
One very safe method for getting a handle on fighting multiple opponents is windsucking. This is a drill they use over at DKK, something that Gavin Mullholland came up with I believe. In simple terms it involves one person striking the kick shields and/or thai pads of 2 to 4 others, while they move and jostle/barge the striker. It’s simple but puts a lot of pressure on the striker particularly when tired and it doesn‘t take...
The first freeze-fight-flight post described the physiological events triggered when threat or danger is perceived by humans. This post continues with the theme that the response is an essential part of evolutionary survival. We can think of the stress response as being responsible for surviving external threat, while the immune system counters internal threat. In both cases the objective is to protect the system from threat by rearranging resources as appropriate. While an internal...
As I have little expertise at fighting multiple opponents when devising training drills for fighting multiple attackers I draw from footage of real life situations. Akin to the Morris Method approach of ‘watch the fight‘ this can provide some rich information. In the last post I embedded the clip of a victim surviving a multiple attacker situation. The clip from Turkey, looks like a road rage argument that escalates into violence. Three blokes attack...
Successfully Fighting Multiple Opponents On Facebook, (again!) this great example of one man overcoming several in a real life incident was found (thanks Steve). Although the actual incident seems to be a little dodgy, the bloke attacked may very well have been in the wrong, it is a great example of getting out of a potentially difficult situation intact. Give the video player a chance it is a little slow to buffer and the...
There was a report on Radio Five Live about the death of a football fan last year. Robert Wilson, 44, fell to the ground after he was hit by Christopher Perry outside a pub in Leeds after the first England match at last years World Cup. Wilson suffered a fractured skull when his head hit the floor after being punched just once. This resulted in Perry being charged with manslaughter and eventually being acquitted...
A recent post concerned the imprisonment of the two Hussein brothers who beat a burglar in response to him being part of a gang that imprisoned Munir Hussain’s family and threatened them with death. Last week Munir was released on appeal, his sentence was reduced to a suspended sentence while his brother’s sentence was dropped to 24 months, meaning he will be released at the end of this year, dependent on good behaviour. Sense...
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