>> My man.

>> So next we have, the one hand lapel. Surdan. Now, Surdan is the man.

How long did you work in clubs?

>> 15 years. >> 15 years. So, Surdan has seen it all. Seen people get hurt? Yes.

>> Stabbed.

>> A little bit, yes.

>>Yes. So he's seen a lot of the real stuff. So, we're going to be

doing the one arm lapel defense. And this is like he said before, before

we started the video. He said, this is probably the one most common

way that people fight. The hockey fight.

>> Yeah.

>> Right. So what is it? Guy grabs with one arm, and just starts

going right into the the face right and I could tell you most people

I've seen from my experience from clubs, there's two ways the most

two ways people fight. One is this way and the other one is just

you know wild punches coming in, so those are to me the most two

most common ways that people fight and I've seen, I don't know

if you've seen it

I've seen guys do this stuff when they get into a boxing stance,

they look all good but once they punch [LAUGH] They turn into

[SOUND]

and you're screaming and the punches are coming from from every

angle. And believe it or not, I'd rather fight somebody like this

than somebody like this because sometimes it just becomes so unorthodox.

Just so wild, the punches are just coming in from every angle that

it's just becomes so hard for you to say, what is he doing, where

is he coming from? And it happens so fast, it's the same thing

for you or not?

>> Yeah. You never know what's going to happen.

>> Yeah. If the guy does this, okay, we're in a stance, we're going to block,

we're going to slip, I know what he's going to do. But this type

of stuff becomes so wild to stop, the hands start moving, you're

like, does the guy have a weapon, does he have a knife? You know

what I mean? And the angles are just so crazy. So we're going to cover

the one arm lapel. What I want do for the one-arm lapel grab defense.

I'm going to use Mark too. Mark, come over here. Actually wait, Mark.

Wait a second. I'm going to do first with Surdan. What happens is...Ok.

Grab me, the shirt. In a one arm lapel grab, the person will use his arm

to keep you back and the hand will come up and he's going to start

punching right here, okay. It gets very hard to defend against because

not only do you have the punch to worry about but you have this

arm to worry about, this is the arm that's actually keeping you

from striking. I can strike Surdan from here pretty easily.

So, I don't have to worry so much about moving the arm and even then

or sometimes it's not easy to move the arm because the person is still

striking okay. However, later on you're going to see we'll go into

the same self-defense drill with Mark and it's going to be much harder because we

have such a huge range of difference okay. So, the person has the

arm, grab again. What do I want to do from here? The first thing

I want to do is try to bring up my hand over here, keep a stick on

his arm why? Just in case he lets go and comes in here, so I might

do this and say

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well from here I might do this and let go and strike into the throat

and even though you're going to go into critical focus on the punch

well this can knock you out because you won't see this

Coming, you won't expect it, right. I can go up right here and from

here you could release and go for a palm strike straight up, boom,

and I won't even see that especially if I'm talking while he hits

me I'm going to get knocked out, okay. So you have the arm here,

I want to establish a stick so he won't be able to do this.

Second thing I want to try to do is tuck in my head right and any this is

one of the striking principles and with Surdan he does it instinctively

every time, tucks his head and why? Because, I know that the big danger

threat is my face. If I take a couple of shoots in the head you'll

survive, your head going to be able to take but if I take in the

facial area, break my nose, tooth, jaw, this is more of the knockout

areas. So I'll tuck in my head the first thing so if I take any

shots, I take them to the head. The second thing is my hand are

going to come up. The last thing I want to do is try and move in

this way, I want to try and move away from his power punch and from

the biggest threat where I'm a little bit off to the side, my hands

are here, because what I want to try and do is move and strike and

I want to try and try to start moving on to the side. Remember one

of the principles, the diamond principle

Is what? Strike, "Y" and establish chest to back as quickly as possible.

So, from here to here my hands are up, if he decides to

start striking, my hands are going to come up, I'm going to block, okay?

Now what can happen very often, some people block like this,

there's an advantage, yes, it's quicker and easier to block,

but if the guy's got a weapon, if the guy's got brass knuckles,

or if the guy's got something, well I might be taking it into the

arm into the thing, so I'd rather try to stop it as much as possible

here. Okay? So I want to keep the arm at this distance, if I keep

it at 90, he's easily going to overpower me. So I want to keep it at

this angle, where it becomes much harder for him to break.

Now, what happened to me, this happened to me more than once in the

street but it wasn't a one arm lapel. It's when the punch is thrown,

and I end up here. Okay. When you end up here, and he's overpowering,

Well now it's kind of too late for me to come back and do this.

You'll never have enough core strength and enough power to...

Give me power...

All I'm going to do is go down into the ground. If that happens in that case

all you can do to just turn and try to establish chest to back okay.

But I'm going to be coming also in the hay maker because and a lot

of times it happened to me where as much as you train as much as

you calculate everything; shit happens and it doesn't happen exactly

the way you train and sometimes the strike is done so explosively

and so fast that just a few seconds make a difference and you end

up stopping here when and it happened to be and you'll see I'm

trying to move back I said dammit what am I doing and then I just

distinctively just duck slip and establish chest the back.

So what we are going to do for the first drill because this is to me

one of the most important ways to learn how to fight is to actually

what we are going to do is we are going to put on a helmet, I'm going to

put on a helmet, Surdan put on a helmet he's going to put on boxing gloves

for the first part of the self defense drill, all he's going to be doing is he's

going to be punching me. First part of the drill for me is not to

take any hits, to try to trap to try to

move in to try to find a way to take the least amount of

hits as possible okay. Surdan just put on a protective helmet.

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Put on the boxing gloves.

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So again, like I said guys this is the most common thing, and you're

going to see the difference, and this is why a lot of martial arts,

the martial artists people teach self defense don't do.

Well, if I'm going to train with somebody who's half my size, well

I've learned how to defend myself against somebody who's half my size.

But, you got to train for bigger, taller and stronger attackers then

the rest become easier. And I'll give you the example, and I'll

prove it to you after when he's going to get to attack Mark, he's

going to have a much longer reach than Mark, how hard it's going to be

for Mark to try to apply the same principles as we're doing here,

okay? So I'm going to put on my helmet. Take off one boxing glove just so

you can grab my shirt.

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Now, just start by grabbing my t-shirt, whenever you want, go

[SOUND]

Keep going, keep going

[SOUND]

Grab again, whenever you want, go.

[SOUND]

Go go

[SOUND]

go go go, keep going.

[SOUND]

Again. Whenever you want. [SOUND] [SOUND]

Break.

[SOUND]

And you saw? Right? Now, again I knew exactly what he was going to do.

So I don't want to make it like the rest of the self defense videos

where, he grabs my one arm lapel, and I show you how successfully

he did it. But later on, there's going to be full out attacks without

knowing

what the person will do. But the first thing I did is try

to tuck in my head, bring in arm up. I grabbed his arm because I don't

want to allow him, come over here. I don't want to allow him to let

go of this arm, and then I got to try to trap him and then he's

throwing punches with both arms. So my first thing was, I'm going to

keep you here, but I'm going to make sure I block this arm. Right?

Establish a trap. In reality, I'd probably be striking, right?

But we're going to cover that a little bit later. So what do I do?

I tuck in my hand, I trap the arm, and I try to immobilize him,

stick to him, use my whole body. Not my arm, not my back, not my

shoulders. My entire body has to come in and trap. Right? He's

much bigger than me he's stronger than me, but I got to use all

my force to keep him in there as much as possible. Mark, come over here.

You want to wear the helmet again? Put on the helmet Mark

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So, the same thing now, your going to grab Mark, no striking Mark. Just pow, pow, pam,

rapid punch, use your reach, move him back, move him forward,

okay? Now, we have

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Look at this, a pretty big reach, Surdan has a much wider reach than

him. This is when most common attacks I've seen fights happen in

this situation, one arm repel, the guy is much bigger, he's much taller.

He uses that reach and it's like "bam" and you're trying to stop him,

you're focusing on the arm, you're trying to come in, the guy is

pushing you and throwing his punch. Let me see it happen. So no

strikes allowed, only trapping. Don't let get the arm.

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Trap the arm underneath, trap it, pin it.

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Trap the arm, that's it, break. Break. Good. Now, he landed a lot

of shots right. A lot of them wouldn't have done that much damage,

they're behind the head, they're half blocked, half stopped, but

where did

Mark go wrong? when he's trying to trap the arm, you gotta trap the

elbow, okay? The elbow is the weakest part between the shoulder,

and the hands. You got to try to pin it over here, right? Because it

doesn't have much force, if I do it over here, the person can move

the arm, grab me here, grab me here.

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I still have more here. If you grab the elbow, and pin it here,

it becomes much harder for me, all right? You pin it to his body,

okay? Go again, but you saw how easy it was for me to block that

punch because I had that reach, and how harder Mark had to mode forward

to come in, to not let him get it. Go again.

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Don't let him Mark, use that range. Go. Wait, wait, start. That's

it. Wait, wait. Wait, wait. Start, back here, and whenever you're ready...

Go. Make it hard for him. Go!

[SOUND]

Look at that.

[SOUND]

That's it. Behind the head.

[SOUND]

Uppercut him that's it, keep going.

[SOUND]

That's it, that's it, that's it. Break it up.

[SOUND]

Keep throwing, keep throwing that punch

Go, go, go.