Are You Sure That’s Right? 

I was watching a TV show last week – I believe it was Spike TV’s “Manswers” – but don’t hold me to that okay?  It may have been a similar TV Show.

The question posed was “what is the best way to defend yourself in a street-fighting scenario, against multiple opponents. ” The story will now go completely downhill, as there obviously were no Master Instructors to edit and approve their scenario.

Ok, the guy walks outside the back door and into an alley, where for some reason, he is accosted by about 4 or 5 large to extra-large opponents.  They appeared to be either angry with our subject or maybe just attempting to lighten his wallet a bit. The question is posed again “what is the best technique to defend yourself from this situation.”

The bad guys kind of surround the victim in a Bruce Lee, Ring of Death type scenario.  One bad guy gets a nice Tae Kwon Do kick to the head and he’s finished (not in real life)!  Another attacks and is judo thrown to the ground (not in real life)!  They are all standing there in the background like movie spectators as the star of the clip takes a couple of guys down to the ground and follows, to finish them off while his friends stand poised but immobile, as if dosed with ether (not in real life)!

Finally the giant of the group is left staring down at his miniscule victim and shouting at him.  Their ultimate technique to finish him off was to have the victim (martial artist) jump onto the big fella’s side and take his back while applying a rear naked choke (not in real life)!

I was appalled as a martial arts practitioner of long standing, to see the absolute B.S. that they had just aired.  Jumping on a 6′5″ street tough attacker is a very dicey proposition, let alone jumping into perfect position to take his back (while still standing) and apply the rear naked choke.  C’mon, the little guy couldn’t even sink it in properly – the big man would have never gone down or out.  Not to mention head kicking in an alley fight, against multiple attackers.  What crap and what a surefire way to commit suicide.  See, I’m still PO’ed a week later – it was that bad.

Rather than expound for several paragraphs on the proper methods to effectively remove yourself from such a scenario.  I’m just laying it out there for you and am asking you to comment if you saw this ridiculous TV segment and looking for some remarks from you, in hope of a little bit of discussion. 

C’mon, let’s talk about this. Bad martial Arts strategy is often met with fatal results for those who follow this sort of bad instruction!