Choosing a Self Defense Instructor: Street Fighter or Martial Artist

Hey guys,

After receiving many requests for additional products to cover different aspects of street fighting based self defense, I've decided to do something even better than that: I've combined "everything that I know about street fighting" into one membership and done it at a much lower price than what you would have to pay if you bought all of my products separately.

Called the "Street Fighting Mastery Program," it is a series of weekly videos that will provide you with just the right amount of information at just the right time, starting from the most important things (like smashing an attacker with easy-to-learn "dirty tricks") and continuing on in the next weeks and months to the most specific things like defeating fear, ignoring pain, dealing with armed aggressors, throwing powerful knockout blows and even how to employ street-effective restraint techniques.

Nothing in this program is politically correct, pretty or nice, but it is all fast and easy to learn and this information will make you more capable of defending yourself on the mean streets than ten black belts!

Check it out and let me know what you think:

Street Fighting Mastery Program

By the way, did I mention the financial advantage you receive with this program? With such a low monthly cost, that would mean that you would become a discount of up to 68% on many of my products!

Until next time, train smart and watch your back!

Christopher "Bob" Roberts

Self Defense with a Rolled-Up Magazine and Other Bad Advice

Guys,

I just have to say that you are the best blog community in the world.

I mean it, really!

First of all, someone saw me demonstrate a block and strike combination with a magazine in my video blog post on women's self defense training and sent me a link to a video of a guy who did the same thing, but was serious about it!

Check this out, a vintage 80's clip of some guy cashing-in on the "ninja craze" by teaching the lost ninja art of first getting in a fight over who sits in a chair and then killing his musical chairs opponent by smacking him with a rolled-up magazine!



Did he really say ". . . bear in mind that bones are going to be damaged and death can result" while telling you how to hit someone with a roll of paper?

Can someone teach me how to do that and still keep a straight face?

You guys do know that I was jokingly demonstrating a bad technique as I showed a clip of me doing the magazine fighting thing, right?

Then, another person read my blog post about biting as a self defense technique and sent me an article about another real encounter where a person was injured by a street fighting criminal who used expedient weapons AND BITING during his strugle to escape. Like I said before, the bad guys (street thugs and criminals) already know how to use the dirty fighting techniques I teach in Street Fighting Self Defense. All that I'm trying to do is enlighten law-abiding citizens and even the playing field for them.


Rob

Here is an article that details a real street fight that happened in the New Orleans, LA area just a day or so ago.


Man has part of ear bitten off during struggle with suspect by WWLTV.com

Posted on April 9, 2010 at 2:13 PM

Updated today at 3:07 PM


NEW ORLEANS - An apparent victim of a car burglary was bitten on the arm, beaten in the face and had part of his ear bitten off after he came upon a suspect rummaging through his car and the two had a struggle Thursday evening.

According to Major Greg Elder of the NOPD's Third District, the victim had a flat tire near the intersection of I-610 East and St. Bernard Avenue around 6:45 p.m. and received a ride to a tire store in Chalmette to secure a replacement.

The victim told police that while at the store, he told a store worker that he was in a hurry to get back to his car, which had several valuable items inside. The victim said he mentioned the location of the breakdown.

According to the police, the victim said he noticed a man quickly leave the tire store after he had made that comment, though he said he thought nothing of it at the time.

The victim said he returned to his car and noticed a Jeep right next to it and when he got out he saw that someone was unloading items from his car into the Jeep. He said he recognized the suspect as the man he had seen hurriedly leave the tire shop.

The victim said the suspect tried to get into his Jeep and drive away, but that he blocked him from closing his door.

During the ensuing struggle, the victim said the suspect bit him severely on the arm, hit him with a tire iron, jabbed at his face with keys and eventually bit off a part of his ear and spit it out on the ground.

The suspect was able to get away in the Jeep along with a compressor, nail gun and other tools that had come from the victim's disabled car.

The victim suffered four bites on his arm, several facial lacerations and the ear injury.

The victim said that the perpetrator was a Hispanic male, about 36 years old, about 6'0", 170 lbs, wearing a Dickie work shirt that has "Santos" on the left breast side, and blue Dickie work pants.

If you have any further information on this incident, suspect or vehicle, please call the Third District at 658-6030. You may also call Crimestoppers anonymously at 822-1111.


So, thanks to Albert for the newspaper article and to the guy who sent me the ninja video on Linked-In.

Until next time, train smart and watch your back!

Christopher "Bob" Roberts

You can't survive a street fight if you get knocked-out before you know you're in a fight!!

The importance of situational awareness in modern street self defense simply cannot be overemphasized. In the ring or cage, you always know that you'll be fighting against one person, he's got no other weapons than his two arms and two legs and you know that he won't attack until after the bell sounds.

On the street, things are different. You never know how many people will attack you, if they are armed, when they will attack and when they will stop. That is the reason why TRAINED sport fighters usually loose against EXPERIENCED street fighters:

A sport fighter is stabbed and then says "I never saw the knife coming," because he is TRAINED to expect a fair fight without weapons and the street fighter is EXPERIENCED enough to draw and palm his knife until he has cut his victim once already.

A sport fighter takes a street fighter to the ground and has his head kicked in by the street fighter's five friends because he is TRAINED in the luxury of being in a cage with only one opponent and a referee to "keep things fair."

A sport fighter gets sucker punched and then says "I never saw the punch coming," because he was TRAINED to not expect any attacks until after the bell rings, while the street fighter is EXPERIENCED enough to know that the person who lands the first blow usually wins a street fight.

I've seen this phenomenon many times in the past. The last time was when I had a Thai Boxing trainer and fighter in a seminar and the entire class was trying to compare him to me in terms of "who is better," "who can beat who," "who is tougher" and so on. While practicing traffic stops using role playing, he stood outside the door of the car and asked me if I would get out and open the trunk. I said yes, while reaching for the rubber knife that I had hidden under my left thigh. I opened the door with my left hand, concealed the knife behind the car door and thrust the knife into his chest, just under his rib cage. What did he do? Nothing at first, but then he jumped into a boxing stance, looked down at the rubber knife "sticking" out of his chest, murmured a profanity and realized that he would have been mortally wounded long before he even knew he was in a fight.

Who would have won in the ring? I honestly don't know. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he would. But remember, that I don't train for ring sports anymore and he's getting ready for street duty, so I would say that he was able to learn a lot more from me than I could have from him. And the chances of an untrained sport fighter recovering from a broken nose tend to be better than those of an inexperienced street fighter recovering from a slit throat.

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The Self Defense Effectiveness of Brutally BITING an Attacker in a Street Fight

In yesterday's blog post I listed the five simple guidelines to the effective use of thumb gouges to the eyes as taught in my video Street Fighting Self Defense. Today I will share five reasons why BITING AN ATTACKER can be so effective in a street self defense situation, another, even more brutal tactic taught in my video:

1. Biting works, period--I have a very high pain tolerance. I have trained myself to "notice" pain, but to accept it and fight on. I once broke my toe and didn't make a big deal about it because I was more worried that I may have damaged a tendon in my ankle, until an x-ray showed the break, BUT the one time that I was bitten in a street fight was so intensely painful that even I was shocked for a second or two. Now, take note that that much pain was caused "just" from a bite to my bicep, not one of the more damaging targets in the head and neck area that I teach in my video! To escape, I had to grab into the biter's eyes (as taught in Street Fighting Self Defense) and pull the guy's head back until he let go, but 99% of the people out there would have been combat-ineffective from the pain alone. Oh yeah, I also ended up bleeding, and receiving a huge black bruise that took weeks to heal, but who cares--biting is just for sissies, right?

2. Biting is primal, brutal and will supercharge your killer instinct--Have you seen those nature films of lions jumping on their prey and biting them to death? Do the lions look scared or worried that they will survive? Believe me, if you can bring yourself to be brutal enough to bite an attacker, you will experience such a boost in confidence and killer instinct that any fear will quickly fade away. It will suddenly become clear to you that you are the predator and the fool who attacked you is now your prey!

3. Biting is primal, brutal and will strike fear into an attacker--Be honest, have you ever been bitten? Have you ever seen someone being bitten? I sincerely doubt it. Now, what do you think your response would be to seeing someone being bitten? What do you think your response would be to being bitten yourself? When I teach street fighting tactics, very few people believe me when I teach biting . . . until I show them the scar on my arm . . . then the room gets really quiet and everyone tends to realize just how serious a hand to hand fight can be . . .

Now, what do you think an attacker would think if he gets bitten in one of the primary targets in the head and neck area using one of the biting techniques that I teach in Street Fighting Self Defense? My guess, as well as my experience is: fear, pain, panic and prolific use of "the F-word." Plus, he has a cool story to tell: "How did I get that scar on my face? Oh, I tried to rape this 90 lb chick and she kicked my ass."

4. Biting an attacker won't get you infected with a disease--Biting an attacker will not get you infected with Hepatitis or AIDS.

First of all, if you're in serious trouble and your only chance to survive is to bite an attacker instead of being stabbed, choked or raped and you don't because you are afraid of being infected with a disease, your thinking is flawed. I mean, do you seriously think that having unprotected sex with a rapist is less of a risk of infection than biting him?

Second, what would you rather do? What would be safer? A punch? When I was in basic training for the army, a guy threw one punch at another guy and cut his fist on his teeth. It got so infected that he needed a surgical treatment to remove the infection from his painfully swollen hand. And that was just because of the germs in the mouth, imagine if he had Hep or AIDS! Would you now advise against punching because of infection risk and recommend that people just allow themselves to be mugged, beaten and raped without fighting back?!?!

5. You can bite in any range and in any situation--You can bite from any range. I can cover up, rush in from kicking or boxing range and bite an attacker in the clinch. In the clinch, on the ground or if an attacker is grabbing me I can IMMEDIATELY bite without any preparation or telegraphing at all. Biting works even better if an attacker is holding my arms, because that means that both of his hands are occupied with holding me still and he can't stop me. If he does let go of me to try to stop me from biting him, then he let me go and the first part of my defense was successful.

Ok guys, the bottom line is this: Biting is easy, fast and effective. As a matter of fact, biting, along with headbutting is my litmus test for self defense "experts." If someone claims to know something about street fighting or self defense and then goes on to say that biting or headbutting is ineffective or that it is not necessary to learn to use or defend against those techniques, I immediately know that he's a fraud. Believe me, both of those techniques are taught in Street Fighting Self Defense for a reason.

Until next time, train smart and watch your back!

Christopher "Bob" Roberts

Street Fighting's Five Secrets to Effective Eye Gouging and Grabbing

Ok guys, today I am going to fully describe exactly what the finer points are that sepearate ineffective from street effective eye gouges and grabs, as I teach them in my video, Street Fighting Self Defense.

Done wrong, the thumb gouge to the eye is almost useless . . . but done right, it is one of the most dangerous and effective self defense techniques that street fighting or WWII combative training has to offer. Read on, to learn the five simple guidelines to the effective use of thumb gouges to the eyes:

1. Don't "poke" the eyes, gouge past them--Regardless of whether you are trying to control someone through the use of pressure against his eyes or are actually trying to destroy the eyeball, don't ever just poke at the eye itself like a little kid. Rather you should try to force your thumb between the eye socket and the eyeball into the skull. This will cause more pain, more fear and continued, increasing pressure will either destroy the eyeball or pop it out of the skull.

2. Thumb the eyes from the inside--If you were to place your thumb between the eyeball and eye socket on the outside of his eye, near his temple and he were to push your hand away, that would be the end of your thumb gouge. If you had chosen to gouge the eye between the eye and the nose, on the inside of his face and he were to force your hand to the side, he would have to rake your thumb across the entire surface of his own eyeball, causing pain and damage to himself.

3. Don't gouge with one hand, keylock around his head or neck--I hate it when I see pictures of inexperienced trainers just grabbing a person's head and forcing their thumbs into his eyes. If you were to do that, he could easily just push or pull your hands away. Now imagine holding his head in a sort of headlock, keylocking your arms (a keylock is a way to cross both forearms to control a part of an opponent's body and simultaneously combine the strength of both arms on a hold) and then thumb gouging his eye. Its hard to explain a keylock in words, but, if an aggressor were to try to push you away from him, a keylock will automatically force your thumb even more forcefully into his eye.

4. Aim your thumb gouges with your palms and fingertips--If you were to try to shoot your thumb directly out into an aggressor's eye, you would miss much more often than not. Instead, first make contact somewhere on your attacker's body with the palm of your hand. As soon as you have made contact with your palm, you should be able to run you hand along his body and find his head, even with your eyes close or in the dark. When your palm is on the side of his head, find his ears with the tips of your fingers, which will bring your thumbs automatically into position to gouge the eyes. Try it on yourself right now: Put the palm of your right hand on the right side of your face and touch your right ear with your fingertips. Now circle your thumb around and it will automatically go between your nose and eyeball, as when using a thumb gouge to get out of a choke from behind. Put your right palm on the left side of your face, fingertips on your le ft ear and your thumb automatically goes into position to gouge the eye, like a thumb gouge to someone standing in front of you.

5. Make hooks with your thumbs--As you can imagine, the optimal body weapon for causing pain to and / or damaging the eyes is a small or pointy one. Therefore, you need to be sure that you are always using the tip of your thumb and not the wide and soft pad to apply pressure. A very simple way to make sure that you do this is to make a hook with your thumb. In other words, curl your thumb in so that contact with your opponents head is only made with your palms and the tip, not the flat pad of your finger. This holds true regardless of whether you are attacking with your thumb or the other fingers.

Ok guys, that's it for today. Tommorrow I'll be talking about BITING in self defense, another brutal technique I teach in Street Fighting Self Defense.

Until next time, train smart and watch your back!

Christopher "Bob" Roberts