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  • Awesome work.

  • >> My man.

  • >> So next we have, the one hand lapel. Surdan. Now, Surdan is the man.

  • How long did you work in clubs?

  • >> 15 years. >> 15 years. So, Surdan has seen it all. Seen people get hurt? Yes.

  • >> Stabbed.

  • >> A little bit, yes.

  • >>Yes. So he's seen a lot of the real stuff. So, we're going to be

  • doing the one arm lapel defense. And this is like he said before, before

  • we started the video. He said, this is probably the one most common

  • way that people fight. The hockey fight.

  • >> Yeah.

  • >> Right. So what is it? Guy grabs with one arm, and just starts

  • going right into the the face right and I could tell you most people

  • I've seen from my experience from clubs, there's two ways the most

  • two ways people fight. One is this way and the other one is just

  • you know wild punches coming in, so those are to me the most two

  • most common ways that people fight and I've seen, I don't know

  • if you've seen it

  • I've seen guys do this stuff when they get into a boxing stance,

  • they look all good but once they punch [LAUGH] They turn into

  • [SOUND]

  • and you're screaming and the punches are coming from from every

  • angle. And believe it or not, I'd rather fight somebody like this

  • than somebody like this because sometimes it just becomes so unorthodox.

  • Just so wild, the punches are just coming in from every angle that

  • it's just becomes so hard for you to say, what is he doing, where

  • is he coming from? And it happens so fast, it's the same thing

  • for you or not?

  • >> Yeah. You never know what's going to happen.

  • >> Yeah. If the guy does this, okay, we're in a stance, we're going to block,

  • we're going to slip, I know what he's going to do. But this type

  • of stuff becomes so wild to stop, the hands start moving, you're

  • like, does the guy have a weapon, does he have a knife? You know

  • what I mean? And the angles are just so crazy. So we're going to cover

  • the one arm lapel. What I want do for the one-arm lapel grab defense.

  • I'm going to use Mark too. Mark, come over here. Actually wait, Mark.

  • Wait a second. I'm going to do first with Surdan. What happens is...Ok.

  • Grab me, the shirt. In a one arm lapel grab, the person will use his arm

  • to keep you back and the hand will come up and he's going to start

  • punching right here, okay. It gets very hard to defend against because

  • not only do you have the punch to worry about but you have this

  • arm to worry about, this is the arm that's actually keeping you

  • from striking. I can strike Surdan from here pretty easily.

  • So, I don't have to worry so much about moving the arm and even then

  • or sometimes it's not easy to move the arm because the person is still

  • striking okay. However, later on you're going to see we'll go into

  • the same self-defense drill with Mark and it's going to be much harder because we

  • have such a huge range of difference okay. So, the person has the

  • arm, grab again. What do I want to do from here? The first thing

  • I want to do is try to bring up my hand over here, keep a stick on

  • his arm why? Just in case he lets go and comes in here, so I might

  • do this and say

  • [SOUND]

  • well from here I might do this and let go and strike into the throat

  • and even though you're going to go into critical focus on the punch

  • well this can knock you out because you won't see this

  • Coming, you won't expect it, right. I can go up right here and from

  • here you could release and go for a palm strike straight up, boom,

  • and I won't even see that especially if I'm talking while he hits

  • me I'm going to get knocked out, okay. So you have the arm here,

  • I want to establish a stick so he won't be able to do this.

  • Second thing I want to try to do is tuck in my head right and any this is

  • one of the striking principles and with Surdan he does it instinctively

  • every time, tucks his head and why? Because, I know that the big danger

  • threat is my face. If I take a couple of shoots in the head you'll

  • survive, your head going to be able to take but if I take in the

  • facial area, break my nose, tooth, jaw, this is more of the knockout

  • areas. So I'll tuck in my head the first thing so if I take any

  • shots, I take them to the head. The second thing is my hand are

  • going to come up. The last thing I want to do is try and move in

  • this way, I want to try and move away from his power punch and from

  • the biggest threat where I'm a little bit off to the side, my hands

  • are here, because what I want to try and do is move and strike and

  • I want to try and try to start moving on to the side. Remember one

  • of the principles, the diamond principle

  • Is what? Strike, "Y" and establish chest to back as quickly as possible.

  • So, from here to here my hands are up, if he decides to

  • start striking, my hands are going to come up, I'm going to block, okay?

  • Now what can happen very often, some people block like this,

  • there's an advantage, yes, it's quicker and easier to block,

  • but if the guy's got a weapon, if the guy's got brass knuckles,

  • or if the guy's got something, well I might be taking it into the

  • arm into the thing, so I'd rather try to stop it as much as possible

  • here. Okay? So I want to keep the arm at this distance, if I keep

  • it at 90, he's easily going to overpower me. So I want to keep it at

  • this angle, where it becomes much harder for him to break.

  • Now, what happened to me, this happened to me more than once in the

  • street but it wasn't a one arm lapel. It's when the punch is thrown,

  • and I end up here. Okay. When you end up here, and he's overpowering,

  • Well now it's kind of too late for me to come back and do this.

  • You'll never have enough core strength and enough power to...

  • Give me power...

  • All I'm going to do is go down into the ground. If that happens in that case

  • all you can do to just turn and try to establish chest to back okay.

  • But I'm going to be coming also in the hay maker because and a lot

  • of times it happened to me where as much as you train as much as

  • you calculate everything; shit happens and it doesn't happen exactly

  • the way you train and sometimes the strike is done so explosively

  • and so fast that just a few seconds make a difference and you end

  • up stopping here when and it happened to be and you'll see I'm

  • trying to move back I said dammit what am I doing and then I just

  • distinctively just duck slip and establish chest the back.

  • So what we are going to do for the first drill because this is to me

  • one of the most important ways to learn how to fight is to actually

  • what we are going to do is we are going to put on a helmet, I'm going to

  • put on a helmet, Surdan put on a helmet he's going to put on boxing gloves

  • for the first part of the self defense drill, all he's going to be doing is he's

  • going to be punching me. First part of the drill for me is not to

  • take any hits, to try to trap to try to

  • move in to try to find a way to take the least amount of

  • hits as possible okay. Surdan just put on a protective helmet.

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • Put on the boxing gloves.

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • So again, like I said guys this is the most common thing, and you're

  • going to see the difference, and this is why a lot of martial arts,

  • the martial artists people teach self defense don't do.

  • Well, if I'm going to train with somebody who's half my size, well

  • I've learned how to defend myself against somebody who's half my size.

  • But, you got to train for bigger, taller and stronger attackers then

  • the rest become easier. And I'll give you the example, and I'll

  • prove it to you after when he's going to get to attack Mark, he's

  • going to have a much longer reach than Mark, how hard it's going to be

  • for Mark to try to apply the same principles as we're doing here,

  • okay? So I'm going to put on my helmet. Take off one boxing glove just so

  • you can grab my shirt.

  • [SOUND]

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • Now, just start by grabbing my t-shirt, whenever you want, go

  • [SOUND]

  • Keep going, keep going

  • [SOUND]

  • Grab again, whenever you want, go.

  • [SOUND]

  • Go go

  • [SOUND]

  • go go go, keep going.

  • [SOUND]

  • Again. Whenever you want. [SOUND] [SOUND]

  • Break.

  • [SOUND]

  • And you saw? Right? Now, again I knew exactly what he was going to do.

  • So I don't want to make it like the rest of the self defense videos

  • where, he grabs my one arm lapel, and I show you how successfully

  • he did it. But later on, there's going to be full out attacks without

  • knowing

  • what the person will do. But the first thing I did is try

  • to tuck in my head, bring in arm up. I grabbed his arm because I don't

  • want to allow him, come over here. I don't want to allow him to let

  • go of this arm, and then I got to try to trap him and then he's

  • throwing punches with both arms. So my first thing was, I'm going to

  • keep you here, but I'm going to make sure I block this arm. Right?

  • Establish a trap. In reality, I'd probably be striking, right?

  • But we're going to cover that a little bit later. So what do I do?

  • I tuck in my hand, I trap the arm, and I try to immobilize him,

  • stick to him, use my whole body. Not my arm, not my back, not my

  • shoulders. My entire body has to come in and trap. Right? He's

  • much bigger than me he's stronger than me, but I got to use all

  • my force to keep him in there as much as possible. Mark, come over here.

  • You want to wear the helmet again? Put on the helmet Mark

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • So, the same thing now, your going to grab Mark, no striking Mark. Just pow, pow, pam,

  • rapid punch, use your reach, move him back, move him forward,

  • okay? Now, we have

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • Look at this, a pretty big reach, Surdan has a much wider reach than

  • him. This is when most common attacks I've seen fights happen in

  • this situation, one arm repel, the guy is much bigger, he's much taller.

  • He uses that reach and it's like "bam" and you're trying to stop him,

  • you're focusing on the arm, you're trying to come in, the guy is

  • pushing you and throwing his punch. Let me see it happen. So no

  • strikes allowed, only trapping. Don't let get the arm.

  • [SOUND]

  • Trap the arm underneath, trap it, pin it.

  • [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • Trap the arm, that's it, break. Break. Good. Now, he landed a lot

  • of shots right. A lot of them wouldn't have done that much damage,

  • they're behind the head, they're half blocked, half stopped, but

  • where did

  • Mark go wrong? when he's trying to trap the arm, you gotta trap the

  • elbow, okay? The elbow is the weakest part between the shoulder,

  • and the hands. You got to try to pin it over here, right? Because it

  • doesn't have much force, if I do it over here, the person can move

  • the arm, grab me here, grab me here.

  • [SOUND]

  • I still have more here. If you grab the elbow, and pin it here,

  • it becomes much harder for me, all right? You pin it to his body,

  • okay? Go again, but you saw how easy it was for me to block that

  • punch because I had that reach, and how harder Mark had to mode forward

  • to come in, to not let him get it. Go again.

  • [SOUND]

  • Don't let him Mark, use that range. Go. Wait, wait, start. That's

  • it. Wait, wait. Wait, wait. Start, back here, and whenever you're ready...

  • Go. Make it hard for him. Go!

  • [SOUND]

  • Look at that.

  • [SOUND]

  • That's it. Behind the head.

  • [SOUND]

  • Uppercut him that's it, keep going.

  • [SOUND]

  • That's it, that's it, that's it. Break it up.

  • [SOUND]

  • Keep throwing, keep throwing that punch

  • Go, go, go.

  • [SOUND]

  • Break. Nice! You managed to get a few shots, right? What did you

  • feel there Mark? What did you feel?

  • >> The impact of the punches,

  • [CROSSTALK]

  • doesn't matter, like if you grab him.

  • >> You're still feeling the strikes, yeah. You have a height, and

  • weight advantage guys. Anybody who tells you size doesn't matter,

  • to me has never fought anybody bigger. Does size make a difference

  • for you?

  • >> Everything matters. Speed, size

  • >> [LAUGH]

  • size both. But, when you're facing who's 200 pounds more than you,

  • whether he knows how to throw a perfect punch or knows how to transfer

  • his weight with that perfect punch, it's still 200 pounds more

  • coming straight to you. Whether it doesn't hit with full force,

  • there's still a weight that you have to move, that you have to

  • deal with. It's still a disadvantage towards you. Again, there's

  • a lot of factors, but to me this being the main one.

  • >> Especially over 200 pounds, if you get knocked out

  • with one punch.

  • >> Yeah, for sure, for sure yeah there's no doubt about it man.

  • Size makes a difference and so does height and weight and range

  • right. You find somebody with a longer range well becomes much

  • harder for you to enter, much harder for you to counter even when

  • you're faced against a knife attacker, because the guy has such a big range.

  • It takes so much more timing and speed for you to come in, okay?

  • Put on the helmet again.

  • [SOUND]

  • So I'm going to go now again. So now what we're going to do, I'm going to

  • very light, I'm going to strike, don't worry. What we're going to do

  • is we're going to do this same thing, now he's going to be doing the

  • same thing. He's going to come in with a punch, right, but l'm going to

  • be allowed to strike. So now again, there's three things I have

  • to worry about. I got to worry about his arm here, making sure he

  • can't move it. I got to make sure I trap so I don't break away then

  • I got to deal with both he's hands and then try to enter against

  • a guy whose much taller and

  • stronger than me. I got to worry about his fist and I got to counter

  • as quickly as possible. Objective is to counter and try to move

  • out of this off the side. The last thing I want to do is move into

  • his power box, right into this punch because this is his power

  • punch. So, I'm striking and then moving. So you're basically doing

  • four, five things at the same time, now which one do you do first?

  • Do you strike first, do you block first? It depends. I don't know,

  • it all depends on what he does first. Okay? But I'm going to allow

  • him to do the first strike first. Technically, you're put in a situation,

  • I'm talking, it's easy for me to go to preemptive, right? If I

  • decide to go preemptive my hands are coming up here if I'm talking

  • to him, and he's saying I'm going to beat the shit out of you, whatever

  • My hands are here. Strike here, strike there, move off to the side.

  • But what were going to do for the first part of the drill, the second

  • part of the self-defense drill is actually I'm going to be allowed to counter.

  • So all you're going to do, I'm going to go light, grab me, just start

  • throwing those punches. Once you feel two or three strikes or if

  • I say break

  • just stop, okay?

  • >> Okay.

  • >> [BLANK_AUDIO]

  • >> Whenever you want.

  • [SOUND]

  • >> Come again.

  • [Punches and Strikes]

  • Let's try with Rock.

  • [Code Red Defense]

Awesome work.

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