The
Ultimate Guide
To Fighting and Winning
By Dr. Russ Horine, President, Fight-Fast Direct, Inc.
Part 25
“A desire to resist oppression
is implanted in the nature of man.”
– Tacitus
Dear Friend:
You’re in the final stretch… congratulations.
But before you get too excited, you don’t know
everything yet… there’s plenty
more. Let’s take a look at how you can begin to take
what you’ve learned so far and develop a fight system
that fits you like a glove. Now here’s where begin to
suggest specific DVD packages, but I don’t want to confuse
you with the dozens and dozens of packages I’ve got
available to you (help…
which one do I choose) so I’ve put together three
packages for you to get you started – a silver, gold
and platinum package that will get you up to speed quickly
and without a lot of fuss.
Anyway, some of this material you’ll recognize
as we’ve already covered it earlier. I did this only
because I want you to putting together the pieces into
a cohesive picture.
But before I say anything more, let’s first
talk more about how you can build your own personal
combat system. Here we go…
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Designing
a Personal Combat System
At
this point you probably know more about fighting and
winning than MOST guys. But
that’s not good enough. Ultimately you’ll want to
end up in a place where you’ve designed your very own
personal combat system. One custom made just for you.
The good news is that without a lot of trouble you can take it to the “next level” – essentially becoming a black belt
level fighter very quickly and without much training.
Our extensive DVD instructional
library allows you a unique opportunity to pick and
choose from dozens of instructors – all of whom were
personally hand-picked by me for their unique abilities,
experience, and ability to teach. I created this library
because up until this point it was virtually impossible
for guys like you to be taught by any one of these instructors.
Most are well respected, fighting men who lead dangerous
lives as spec op “black bag” soldiers, hardened street
brawlers, experienced cage fighters, or the like.
And let’s say you
DID manage to get a hold of one of these fight instructors
(and convinced him not to kill you),
the cost and time involved would make little sense.
There’s no need
to reinvent the wheel my friend. Everything you need
to build your own personal combat system has already
been created for you.
The first step in
designing your own personal fighting system is to break
up the fight into its component parts. Now a fight is
a fluid state. It simply cannot be artificially dissected
into parts and still be a fight -- so breaking it down
into its component parts is a compromise. Never-the-less
we need to do it to clarify some points.
Fighting Ranges
-- A fight can be roughly divided into 4 Fighting
Ranges. I’ve
got a lot of good DVD packages explaining this in detail
including:
a.
Paul Vunak’s “Street Safe I” package…
b.
Tom Cruise’s “How To Build A Streetfighter In 40 Hours”…
c.
Frank Cucci’s “Seal Team Unarmed
Combat Course” package.
You’ll
discover dozens of fighting range secrets that would
be impossible for me to fully cover here – but here’s
a quick idea of some hand-to-hand fighting ranges:
- Weapons Range:
This distance represents the reach of a club, knife,
gun, pepper spray, or improvised weapon. Obviously
there’s a LOT you need to consider
for anyone armed with a weapon. For example, police
officers consider anyone armed with a knife is a lethal
threat anywhere within 30 feet. Now that may seem
like a huge distance, but research has PROVEN over
and over that a determined person armed with a knife
can close a distance of 30 feet and inflict lethal
wounds before an officer can draw his weapon and shoot.
There
are some more surprises – like when you should charge
an assailant armed with a gun (and when you shouldn’t)…
how you can easily disarm a weapon… when to run like
hell (and when to hold your ground)… and tons of improvised
weapons tricks (you gotta see how Bob Taylor throws
a sticks a simple paperclip in “Dead
Eye Power Throwing”) that will get you out of
most hairy situations.
- Striking Range: This is the distance
you can reach someone with an arm or a leg and is
the fighting range that most martial arts deal seemed
concerned with. There are many tools and nasty tricks
you can use from this range and my little company
has produced many excellent DVD instructional packages
addressing this fighting range including:
- Russian “super soldier” Vladimir Vasiliev’s
“Russian Fighting System…
- Christophe Clugston’s
“Combat JKD”
- Mike Goldbach’s “3 Fighting Secrets”
- Close in Range: Sometimes called
the “trapping range” this is within a foot of your
opponent and it’s where you’ll be able to end a fight
within seconds using such simple moves as head butts,
knees, and elbows. These are high-damage moves that
can mean hospitalization, permanent injury or death
for your adversary, so use them wisely and be careful
when practicing (I’ve seen well-trained fighters get
knocked unconscious while “practicing” these moves).
Curiously, many martial arts don’t have many tactics
that cover this fighting range, but in terms of ending
a fight fast, the Close-In
Range is
where it’s at. The problem is the transition from Striking
Range to
Close-in Range
because it’s unlikely your adversary will allow you
to simply walk up to within one foot without striking
you. But the good news is there are dozens of transition
tricks to get you into position for a “lights out” finishing
move. Some of my favorites are:
- Paul Vunak’s “Street Safe I” package…
- Jim West’s “Fight To Win” package…
- James Painter’s “Rock N Roll Prison Fighting” system…
- Ground Range: Often referred to as grappling.
Ground fighting in the real world is NOT the same
as what you see in the high school gymnasium or a
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) match. I don’t care if you
took state championship in wrestling,
there are a couple of things you need to consider
before willfully taking it to the ground. First, most
fights do not take place on padded floors with plenty
of open space. Nope, sorry to say that -- unless you’re
lucking enough to get into a real fight inside a dojo
– you’ll be rolling around on tile, concrete or asphalt
with plenty of obstacles
to run into. Even if you win you’ll be scraped and
bang-up to a bloody pulp.
Another
thing, ground fighting often means long minutes tangled
together on the ground (anyone who’s watched a wresting
or UFC match can attest that it’s a slow methodical
process). But on the street you must ALWAYS operate
under the assumption that your adversary has various
goons and buddies who’d be more than delighted to kick
and stomp your head while you’re struggling to get that
Full Nelson applied. So there are good reasons you want
to end it fast… on your feet.
Despite
all this, I would recommend that you learn a dozen or
so simple but effective ground moves because any fight
that lasts more than 12 seconds almost always goes to
the ground. So you’ve got no choice but to discover
some tricks that’ll get you out of a pinch. I’ve got
a few recommendations for you that’ll either let you
end it on the ground fast, or get him off of you instantly:
a.
Ultimate Ground Fighting –
with Sharam Moosavi.
Dozens of solid groundfighting
secrets that work on the street.
b.
Escape From Impossible Holds
– with Mark Hatmaker.
A ton of material that will allow you to escape quickly
from even the most experienced ground fighting holds.
c.
Paul Vunak’s
“Street Safe III” – Advanced (but easy to learn)
moves designed to get him off you quickly. This is very
ugly material that you’ll only want to use in a desperate
situation.
Alright…
I can already hear an uproar from the black-belt crowd screaming that these
four “ranges” do not cover the multitude of ranges often
taught in martial arts. That’s right… some fight systems
teach 5, 6, 7 ranges and more. There’s the “Kicking
Range” and a “Punching Range”, a “Trapping Range”… some
utilize a “Short Weapons Range” and a “Long Weapons
Range” and on and on.
This is all fine.
My only point is that you consider (but not over think)
your use of space in obvious ways. Because I don’t care
how well-trained you are in a particular punch – it
won’t work if your adversary is fifteen feet away. Yes…
another of my classic ridiculous examples, but you get my point.
On the other hand
I’ve seen some fight systems hinge so tightly on “fighting
ranges” that it becomes a pre-occupation for the fighter
(“am I within 2.5 feet?... okay… time to retool
myself from kicking range to punching range”).
Again… you haven’t
got time to “think” about various tactics, ranges, and
techniques. You simply must keep target awareness then
use the most appropriate tool to strike.
Til next time…
Dr. Russ Horine
Prez, Fight-Fast.com
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