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This is an initial contact. You're confronted with a threat. You've got a big intimidating
looking guy here, like Mr. Mank. He's in your face. I call it the "smack talk face". Initial
contactor right here. Don't just deal with the guy "Hey, what's your problem?" You're
standing square footed like most people do and whoever hits first does a "Jack Attack",
"Sucker Punch". When's the conflict? Almost all fights that I've witnessed. So you don't
want to stand to square like this. Even if he just gives me a hard shove, I'm back on
my butt. You know, he's going to send me. So, what I like to do is bring your hands
up in what I call the prepared or non-confrontational stance. Drop one of your feet back. Not like
you're fighting. You're not engaged, you don't want to make a fight happen. We're talking
self defense here. You want to try and get out of a situation. Maybe you have loved ones
to defend against. And you've got to be legally justified as well. Which this helps with.
I put my hands up, I drop a foot back. This doesn't signal to him I'm in my kick boxing
or my muay stance. But it signals to him "Hey, man I don't want a problem". Meanwhile my
hands aren't down and so if he throws a right cross, it's hard for me to defend myself if
my hands are down, but if we're here and he throws a right cross, I can tounce out here
or I can cover and I'm able to defend myself because it's already here. Or my hands are
right here to go to an eye-gouger or throat strike or an elbow. Even if he tries to head
butt me, I've created distance and my hands are up. If I'm standing right here he can
head butt me right away, break my nose. OK? So, we're creating distance which gives you
time to react, your hands are up. It doesn't signal the fight. You de-escalate him. "Hey,
man I don't want any problems", whatever. And if he initiates contact, if he starts
to throw, or if you can tell he's about to, and it's a gang surrounding you, you can initiate
and go first. So this is a non-confrontational stance. I've used it plenty of times to de-escalate
situations. It would really work well for you instead of, if you've studied martial
arts before, you just don't know what to do I've seen in this situation. Drop a leg back,
get some distance, get your hands up and be ready to defend yourself. Contactor: What's
up man you got a problem? Instructor: Hey, I don't want any problems, man. I don't want
any problems. So if someone confronts you, you want to be able to defend it and have
witnesses say you were just trying to defend it and then finish the guy off as need be.
Alright. So that's how you want to deal with de-escalating a situation and having a prepared
stance ready to deal with the threat.