The UNSPOKEN RULES of Street Fights YOU Can’t Avoid… in Self Defence

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1. A very interesting discusión, I really like this interview style.
   I was a street kid, I literaly learned to fight, there were teachers and friendly fights, you might brake an arm but you won't gauge an eye out. And there were pressure tests with strangers… That's a whole other story this is about knowing for yourself what you can do and getting all the rest to know what you can do. I can explain it as a fighting school, older guys didn't do it and nobody wanted to mess with them. At least to me it was not so much about ego, it was educacional. I liked fighting very much. It is dangerous to call street fighters untrained. We kept us phisically top noch and didn't do alcohol. The difference is you fight with real anger of a shity life, the rule is… there is no rule. There is no third man in the middle. You have to be unpredictible, never show all your moves if you don't have to. When the third man in sports brakes up a fight, the real damage will be done in the streets at that point.
   The same happend in military, I took the education very serious, I sucked up skills to survive and not get hurt.
   Young animals and humans play to learn. Never engage in a street fight, you are not prepared for this. The truth is, nobody is.
   What we learned kept us save and we could take what we wanted to take from all the rest that was weaker.
   There is the joint to criminal violance.
   You never know if the criminal is a good fighter, don't go there.
   I can do a lot with empty hands, but I carry a knife, a revolver 357 magnum and often a secoundary 9 mm semi auto. 12+1 and 21+21 mags. I don't go there, sometimes I have to.
   To your point fight to kill:
   I don't fight to kill, this is important legaly in selfdefence as well. I fight to stop. I take the word stop very serious, due to self preservación, so there won't be much life left in an aggressor. I am not interested in bleeding out an idiot after hours or in psychological stops. I am not focused on inflicting pain. I take joints out, cut muscles totaly, eyes, trought, eras, rapid blood loss and turn off the computer. It is likely to be dead after my approche, but if not that doesn't matter to me. This is legaly save in most of the countries of the world. I had no issues so far. At least in South América we don't wait for the police to come in self defence. But there are more and more cameras.
   Desde Sudamérica

2. 43 years of martial arts here – The only rule (after the other person has refused to listen to their better angles of their nature to back down from the fight you tried to talk them out of) is to make their lesson as painful as possible so that they will never ignore their better angles in the future.

3. If you find yourself in a fair fight, then your tactics suck!

4. I have a couple of comments here, and I want to be sure that I say that this is in the context of a genuine street fight. Two guys going outside to the parking lot to settle a disagreement isn't really a street fight, because that's more like a duel than actual combat, though the line is obviously a little blurry.

   1. I don't think street fights are "to the death" in almost anyone's mind. I think in most people's minds, a street fight ends when both combatants see no further need to continue.

   2. I'm a Veteran, and I don't have any sort of mental barrier to killing you if I deem it necessary. Put me in a position where I perceive you as a genuine existential threat, and I will try my best to end you, with intentionality. HOWEVER, I also take that very seriously, and you are REALLY going to have to cross some line to get me there. Otherwise, my goal is going to be to escape, preferably before the fight even starts. I do NOT care if I look like a coward for taking the opportunity to run away, in large part because I understand what it means to take a life. Also a fight always hurts, even the ones you win. I'm too old for that nonsense. THE PROBLEM is that when you are on the street, you may not know if you are in a fist-fight or if you are in a genuine street fight, because you don't really have any way of knowing what the other guy is thinking. Which of course is why the BEST fight is the one you don't have,

   Just my opinion of course…

5. 5:03 Unreasonable? I don't know. Do it look like the assailant look like they are going to get back up? Do they appear to be reaching for a weapon? These are integral factors.

6. The number one rule is that until you are safe, there are no rules.

7. SITUATIONAL awareness is key, and you need to develop a form of psychological warfare, as well as self defense skills. If you can convince your opponent that they have no chance against you then they have no chance, regardless of any advantage that they might have

8. Stomping sombody I could not do unless they did real evil

9. hitting a old woman with a bat is not a street fight

10. The most common unwritten rule when I was a kid "no biting"

11. Ain't No Rules in The Street fights,

12. The only "fair fight" is in a ring with a referee.

13. Why does it look that in your side is Night and His side Day ? Are you in Same place ?

14. There is a difference between a fight and just a beating. I doubt grandma will actually fight.

15. O.G's have Always had Street Rules and those that Didn't Follow are Considered Cowards (Busters ) !

16. Always keep in mind there won't be a ref jumping in saying they've had enough in a street fight …beware 😉🤨👍

17. The main reason people don't fight to the death is the law…

18. to my mind this ties into "social violence" which does seem to more be about dominance and ego and has more "rules" perhaps like a match fight and then there's asocial violence which is more like the gutterfighting, kill or be killed, where you are (at least potentially) fighting for your life. Your defence does have to be "reasonable and neceesary", you might well have to be able to justify it in court.

19. #1 rule for surviving a street fight

    Don't get into one in the first place

20. Street fight: Anger issues -> swinging hands
    Kriminal attack: its planed to overwelm your defence -> probebly weapons.

21. In West Virginia people have NO issues whatsoever about cracking already vulnerable people in the head with baseball bats, crowbars and tire irons and the often do it in groups or gangs AND brag about it. If you get into a fight up there it is expected that the winner will continue to give loser's unconscious body the ground and pound treatment until it becomes a corpse.

22. I don't believe in a "fair" fight. The antagonist will not start a fight unless he believes he has a 90% chance of winning. Nobody is going to start a fight if he thinks he might lose. This means that, given the antagonist is reasonably capable of sizing up an opponent, the odds are already in the aggressor's favor. The only thing that would make it more "fair" is if the smaller guy, who is forced into the fight, has some sort of secret weapon that the aggressor did not take into consideration.

23. When that 90 year old grandmother comes at me with a machete, no restraint.

24. Yes😑

25. Oh yes there certainly are rules, there's assault and battery and manslaughter, murder 1 or 2, etc. You'll find there's lots of rules. Not just for the attacker either, if you are 'defending' and the other person quits, you'd better stop too. Don't worry, your court appointed attorney will help you figure it all out💩😧

26. I never ever ever ever want to hurt someone, much less kill them. The thought makes me nauseated.

27. I'm not an idiot to think I'm invincible but having training and experience. I definitely am not going to fight fair in the street, anything goes to humiliate, break their ego and if so incapacitate them.

28. People vs people like the saying live by the sword die by the sword. There no culture in life n death

29. I think it's because criminal violence often involves an attacker who is either psychopathic or sociopathic. Street fights often involve narcissistic but otherwise normal people…

30. I always hate hearing that there are “no rules in a street fight”. There aren’t but there are. Now strictly talking fights not random attacks. It is common to see peoples friends circle around and watch, both sides are watching to make sure nothing that they deem as across the line happens. Now it’s different from place to place but there ARE unspoken rules in street fights everywhere you go, and that’s just socially. Then there is legality. Anyone who says there are no rules either is talking about an unprovoked random attack or doesn’t know what they are talking about. They just have this idea that there aren’t rules, so I’ll just do this or do that and that’ll be the end. That’s just not reality.

31. 0ld world martial arts was not designed to be a spectacular sport or an Olympic match.
    Old world martial arts can't be taught in the dojo because it would be unethical and someone may get injured or killed. Historical martial arts have no rules or boundaries.
    Please stay safe out there.

32. Never seen a 80 year old woman in a street fight? Rule number one there are no rules

33. Ive been knocked out in two street fights but both times they stopped after
    I wouldn't hit someone when they're on the ground (tho I will grapple) but that's more of a personal rule which I'd break in a fight where I thought they where trying to take my life
    But now I carry mace and a firearm so I feel like I'm not allowed to get into ego driven fights or any really
    But I've never been in that situation yet (thank God) tho I have been maced

34. There are no rules. You’re either the guy standing or you’re the guy on the ground.

35. What is reasonable seems to be deteriorating in the West at the advantage of the worst elements of society. From what I understand in the UK one may not use any device deemed offensive for self defense such as a firearm, kubaton, or pepper spray. There are similar laws in US cities like New York.

36. Awesome video!

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