Not self defense? You don't chase after someone following an assault if you're not intending to cause additional harm. To be honest, after being slapped in the face and chased by multiple attackers, I think it's a lot to ask for rational thoughts. My motto is: You can make the first move, what happens next is not my responsibility.

Those who says that he should have been swinging the pipe without reaching the women either never got into a street fight before or fight by swinging their arms in rolling motion and say "If you get hit, it's your own fault."

Capoeira's a lot of fun. I wouldn't take it to a street fight, but why are you out getting in fights anyway?

That wouldn't work in a real street-fight.

That wouldn't work in a real street fight.

I just have to say, that as an Isreali agent who killed 500 Nazi's AFTER the second world war, climbed Mount Everest on my hands and once stole the tooth of a dragon:

That wouldn't work in a real street fight.

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>> ^HadouKen24:

I've watched it twice now.
That man has clearly spent a great deal of time with the sword. I know it looks ridiculous--and the suit doesn't help at all--but he pulls off some fairly difficult cuts with fairly smooth form. He cuts a water-filled two-liter cleanly in two. At one point, he tosses one into the air with his sword, and easily divides it on the way down.
At no point was he flailing or out of control. I didn't even see him over-swing.


He is clearly off ballence at Manny points, could all be fixed with editing also when attacking targets that are so low instead of leaning over he should bend his knees more allowing to do clean strikes with a steady posture , in a real combat situation you would require a firm posture and solid balance so that u can use your body wight behind the blade and increase its cutting power.

But In many ways real sword combat is bound to be quite messy and would likely not resemble what we are used to seeing in films or what you see in that dance based sword stuff. it will be more akin to what you see in UFC or street fights where the first blow or geting the guy on the ground is the most important thingy after that its stabby stabby flailing..

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>> ^smooman:

NOTHING works in a street fight. Thats what makes em street fights.
And the whole slapping thing, a full on slap hurts like eight bitches on a bitch boat. During the RTL portion of SERE school we were slapped around a good bit. If you dont think a hard slap from a grown man hurts then talk to some of the officers (who got it the worst) after coming back from SERE, their faces beat to hamburger


Yeah, you're the exact type of person I was parodying with that comment.

Film fights, fine, Set up matches (boxing, mma, whatever) alright, filmed street fights of people getting pounded on, downvote.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

You show me a MMA fighter that can do this:


You don't watch much MMA do you? Watch Anderson Silva vs Rich Franklin 2 or Anderson Silva vs Forrest Griffin.

Also, MMA would be much much more effective in a street fight than boxing, because it encompasses a much larger subset of what can happen in a street fight. Brazilian Jiujitsu, not sport Brazilian Jiujitsu (there's a big difference) was designed for self defense.

Here, I found some clips for you:





And at 3:50,

You show me a MMA fighter that can do this:


You show me a boxer that can do this:

The 2D art is done by Paul Robertson, which is also awesome. He's the guy behind Kings of Power 4billion% and Pirate baby's cabana battle street fight 2006

well thats the thing in uk its the same almost noone has guns , but the times when sumone would stab you would be when your on a train or in a close space, and pritty much always the best thing to do would be to run away , or just get out the way , which is sort of thing u can do with no training , evan with training if sumone decides to stab you out the blue on a train or in an ally they will probably get you.

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>> ^westy:
allso due to the nature of street fighting chances are annyone who actualy has intent to hurt you will have a kniffe or a gun
Whilst I somewhat agree that the likelihood that years of martial-arts practice is going to one day save your life in a street fight is pretty slim, I would point out that Bas is from the Netherlands and Pancrase is centered around Japan. In neither of these countries are you likely to encounter people carrying guns on the street, like you would in America. At worst they would have a knife... and a trained martial artist would certainly be able to fend off a junkie with a knife.

>> ^jwray:

Why kick someone in the chest when you can kick them in the nuts. It's faster, longer range, does a lot more damage, and puts you at much less risk of losing your balance in a counterattack.


Sorry jwray, but i have to say your advice next to the advice of mr. rutten (who could pound just about any single person in a real fight) falls distincty short.

Let's not forget that this video right here is a demonstration of a technique for fighting in a certain style of MMA competition.

But he, and people in his sport, also give self defence lessons which relate to real fights.

Don't be under any illusion, jwray, this guy could kick most people's arses in a real world fight. You may as well pretend that lennox lewis is a pussy who'd get his ass kicked in a street fight because nail clawing, eye gouging, biting and kicking isn't allowed in boxing.

The bottom line is that these guys are experts in delivering punches, kicks, holds and throws - they're trained by repetition and baptism of fire to deliver them even under the worst of circumstances, when they're dog tired, when their nose is broken into 4 - AND THEY CAN KICK/EYE GOUGE/NAIL SCRATCH AND HAIR PULL BETTER THAN YOU BECAUSE THEY'RE USED TO HAVING THAT ADRENALINE OF THE FIGHT RESPONSE.

Honestly pal, if you think anyone near to the top of just about any MMA or boxing type competition is on an even footing to your average person in a street fight, you're kidding yourself. I pray to god, allah and budda that your over confidence doesn't lead you into a fight with one of these guys, cos you'd be lucky if they decided to stop very precisely short of killing you.