Surviving a Real Attack On The Street

The time you will be attacked you will most likely be:

Distracted

Out numbered

Alone

There will be no back up

You will be in the fight of your life

Specific Defenses dont work.

1. Nothing you do will work. Last night one of the guys who train with me is a Port Authority police officer. We were discussing the merits of Pepper Spray. The common misconception is that the pepper spray will end the assault.

As you may or may not know, a lot of emotionally disturbed persons (EDP) will just walk off the pepper spray. Most times, it only serves to enrage them further. Now what? Should you throw out your pepper spray? Of course not!

Dont expect the pepper spray to end the fight. DO expect the pepper spray to afford you an opening to inflict greater damage or escape. Even if the spray simply causes your target to blink, its done its job. All it has to do is create an opening, a little hesitation in your assailants plan of attack; just enough to let you seize the opportunity, gain the advantage or escape.

When you train in hand to hand, always train with multiple, lethal strikes. Dont depend on every technique you throw to hit its intended target or end the fight. You will miss a lot more than you hit. Thats why you train with OVER KILL. You should go about two or three steps past what you would normally perceive as the end of the fight. Remember, its better to be pleasantly surprised that gravely disappointed.

2. You will not feel how you feel right now. In fact, your body and mind will due a wide variety of things to help you deal with the hormone induced stress. Tunnel vision, audio exclusion (you wont hear everything), slow motion perception, loss of finite motor skills and your reasoning skills will disappear. Dont think of this a problem. Understand that your body is preparing its self for battle. The same as it has done since Kane killed Abel.

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