This would be hilarious if it was not so scary. It highlights the dangerous misconceptions held by most people who have never been in a life or death situation. They believe that in an actual combat situation, they will be able to cleanly and distinctly make well thought out decisions about their self protection. This is patently insane. If you can make those well thought out decisions, it is not really a self defense situation, because your life was not on the line. If it is a real self defense situation--defined by a criminal justice authority AFTER THE INCIDENT--then you do not have the time, luxury or even the capacity to make those decisions. What Tim Larkin teaches is to use your body as a bullet, because in a real, justified, legal self defense situation, you would be perfectly justified in shooting the predator. He simply teaches people how to use their body to apply that lethal force that a bullet applies for when you do not (for some reason) have a gun.
I once took a person shooting who said, "If I was attacked I would shoot the gun out of their hand." I succeeded in not laughing in her face. Do not carry a gun if you believe that is a possibility; if you ever find yourself in a self protection incident, it will be taken away from you by somebody with no conscience, and it will be used on you. These idiots in the video do not understand what an actual self defense situation is. They think it is a bar fight. I have written previously about how most traditional martial arts are training people to bar fight, but calling it "self defense training." Kickboxing competitions in a bar are really pointless, foolish and illegal. That is not self defense. As an aside, in an actual interpersonal combat situation, where somebody is trying to kill, rape or maim you, using those really cool Mixed Martial Arts skills that work so well against a single, unarmed opponent in a ring with a ref and rules, will guarantee your death.
What these people do not understand is that the only systems of unarmed self protection that are actually worth a darn, are things like Tim Larkin's Target Focus Training, because all they teach is how to kill and maim a violent predator. You cannot negotiate with a lion trying to kill you. You cannot Aikido its ass onto the ground and then think you can walk away. If somebody is actually trying to kill, rape or maim you, you attack them with lethal force and the intent to kill them. Maybe they get lucky and survive you emptying the cylinder of your revolver into their upper chest, but not because you were trying to "wound them."
Professional predators operate by ambush. An ambush is confused chaos. The confusion is terrifying, so much so that your cognitive brain shuts down. When that happens, only your reptilian brain is functioning, and it will allow you to do only that which you have trained over and over again. That means, if you train to shoot the high center chest of a silhouette, then that is what your body is going to do. If you train to jab out someone's eyes with your thumbs if they grab you, then that is what your body is going to do. If you train to try and put them in an arm bar--as cops and bouncers are trained and required to do--then that is what your body will do. If you are not a cop or a bouncer, with backup, that last one will get you killed against a professional predator. Why would you try to restrain somebody trying to stab, shoot, rape or mug you? You do not have time to play around in an actual self defense situation--as determined by a criminal justice official AFTER THE INCIDENT--you only have time to react and do what you've been trained to do. If you train to grab lions by the tail, you're going to lose, and you're going to lose huge.
There are some good systems of unarmed self protection out there, that teach using your body as a bullet. There are some systems of martial arts that teach the right skills, but they teach you to do it in a bar fight and then go to jail. Then there are some traditional systems of martial arts that teach grappling and kickboxing in life and death situations, and that is dangerous crap that will get you stabbed, shot or raped in a real self defense situation. Do not make the mistake the Army did back in the 1990s and start training non-lethal MMA techniques for a lethal environment. If you want to survive a life and death situation, you have to live and the bad guy has to meet death; that is combat. If you are training to "wing 'em" then you are training to be a victim. If you are training with the mindset that you will be able to think your way through an attempted murder or gunfight, you are--as the people in the video are--dangerously delusional. It's over in under two seconds, the blood drains out of the frontal cortex of your brain as adrenaline floods your system and completely shuts down cognition. If you haven't trained for it, you will freeze instead of fighting or fleeing. It is absurd to think you will be able to make generous and pacifistic choices about just "disarming or disabling" your attacker in those circumstances.
Read Tim Larkin's book "When Violence is the Answer," and you will understand that the professional predators are not training in prison gangs for an MMA fight. They are training to take what they want, and if you are a minor obstacle to them, they will simply kill you and then take what they want. You have to be as lethal, as ruthless and as capable as they are if you want to survive a real self defense situation and not just beat up drunk idiots in bars. Predators are not afraid of a sheep who knows Aikido.
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