The point is to train so you don't have to think about getting into a solid stance, you just do it. Tactics are a different thing. Also you should train so that when you inevitably get hit at a protest it isn't the first time.
i learnt by growing up in a shithole mate
go to a boxing gym, get into fights, don't bother with anything fancy, just learn how to throw an actual punchI am also not much for fighting but a lot of the shit like Muay Thai or especially Krav Maga (say what you will about the Israeli state but they know how to do the violence) is practical and used in combat.
The more you do something the more instinctual it becomes whether it's a round of pool or shooting at a range or fighting so when your teeth are about to be knocked in the response takes over (and a lot of martial arts involve sparring specifically for real teeth knocking simulation)
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Kick random people in the crotch and let them retaliate.
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Keep doing it til' you're a kung-fu master.
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You first start to learn how to make a fist. Than you learn how to actually move your body in a way that gives that fist actual power. Than learn to kick and than block. Than spar.
Seems like Europe has a street fight culture whereas America has a lawsuit and police state culture
While I've never known anyone whos been shot (I've known plenty of people who have been jumped after kicking someone's ass) just about everyone I know who's older than me knows someone who's died bc they got shot after kicking someones ass. Definitely different cultures when it comes to settling scores
Worth consideration: if you're at a protest and ready to protect people physically in an unambiguously legal way, make sure your entire group is more informed than us. Be so informed that taking the advice of CharlesMarks and WDYMP on chacha would be useless to you.
Learned to fight a long time ago. Also formed my world view. Was bullied to suicidalness when younger. When I finally realized my own power through training and knocking people out that's when the bullying stop.
Its the main reason I don't believe in peaceful protests as an action or way to get anything.
Unless you want to get everything cut to shit by your own knife don't carry a knife to fight fucking ever
It raises the stakes from somebody probably gets their ass kicked to somebody probably dies. If you can't fight hand to hand, having a knife isn't going to make your situation any better. Especially if you're up against someone with martial arts training who has drilled disarming people thousands of times.
Edit: Then, even if you win the fight you might be facing manslaughter, 2nd degree murder, or attempted murder charges instead of assault or battery. Leftists who kill reactionaries will not recieve the lieniency or institutional support that white supremacists like Kyle Rittenhouse get.
Yeah what the other guy said. Unless you're significantly stronger that the other person by a large margin, they will be able to manipulate your hand to cut you or disarm you. Carrying a knife is either a moot point or a dangerous point in your gut.
A knife is good for intimidation, sometimes it will get people to back down. The problem is if you don't know how to use a knife its real fucking easy to either hurt yourself or have it knocked out of your hand and then used against you. So if you pull a knife and the person doesn't back down you fucking better have the skills to back your threat up.
Not unless you have years of training in very specific martial art styles (mostly military-derived or HEMA). And even then you wouldn't intentionally do it.
Unlike drunken pub fights, Group Streetfights tend to have a lot of grappling and unlike swords and other weapons knives don't give you the reach to disengage, so you're just adding a spinny random blade to your wrestling match.
If you must carry a weapon (and unless things are really kicking off into revolution you don't), a stout stick or staff is hard to beat.
If nothing else, remember the basics on how to throw a punch:
- Aim two inches to a foot behind the initial point of contact so you don’t stop moving your fist at the surface and waste the strike
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- Keep your thumb outside of your fist when you punch or you’ll risk fracturing your own hand. Bones are hard and sandwiching them in layers isnt doing anyone any favors
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- Use your whole body as you throw the punch. Twist at the waist and put your shoulder into it so the punch flys as hard, straight, and fast as you can manage. Obviously, you can’t always punch like this, but if you are going for a haymaker, this is the way to do it. Practice the stroke a few times in front of a mirror before trying it IRL.
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If you're going to learn anything, it probably shouldn't be a punch. You need to practice a punch in sparring if it's going to be worth half a fuck for anything. I have a bunch of years of BJJ experience + a couple months of muay thai and I wouldn't be caught dead throwing a punch for anything besides distracting someone as I close the distance.
If I had to teach somebody who's probably not going to practice very much, it would be 3 things:
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How to fall without fucking your shit up (more easily researched "the breakfall"): you tuck your chin and don't reach out your arms
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The outside trip: if you're like me then you were playing around with it in primary school
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A mount escape: not losing is a core fundamental of winning
Wrestling with your friends is a lot of fun. If you want to punch well you either need a coach or the element of surprise.
That’s fair, the things you mentioned are definitely useful in their own right and probably more practical. I just wanted to share basic stuff I remembered from self defense classes I took as a kid that served me well over the years.
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This is when you know someone hasn't actually ventured into a large urban center in America
pffft. i've beat like 3 yakuza games i know how to do a street fight
