FOUR Signs People Overestimate Their Fighting Ability
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- It’s natural to overestimate our abilities in many things but it’s dangerous when it’s come to fighting. You may fall into this category if these signs resonate. #selfdefense #fighting #fightingability
“Fighting sucks, at least it should.” Solid gold, brother!
I’m 73, my motto is that the best fight is the one you’re not in
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People need to stick together around gas stations , homes and malls to put an end to all this bullying ❤
A reality check never hurt anyone. As for fighting someone who is angry, I'd rather fight him than the scared one. lol Them scared ones will hurt ya.
It pays to be in shape. Our instructor would say, (about street fights/self defense) "The winner decides when it's over. He doesn't care if you get tired. Train harder".
One of his phrases was: "Someone out there is training right now to destroy you. There is always someone who is bigger, faster or stronger, so you have to train harder, be in better shape and have better technique".
Overconfidence is rife amongst LEOs. I've taken guys down twice my size, from college football players to old farmers, but you know what? I would classify very few as a "fight." Someone struggling purely defensively, just trying to escape you is very different from someone trying to hurt or kill you.
Absolutely true!
You also have to realize that there's MMA gyms all across the country. It's not beyond possibility that you might be facing a dude who has a year or more of MMA training. ALWAYS try to deescalate if you can.
Very true. When crazy hits, those that are out of shape will be the first to perish.
I need to get in better shape myself.
Me too
Solid advice, thank you 🙏🏻
About to enter my golden years. One of those street punks will in all probability clean my clock in a fight. They are faster than I am and without a moral coil. Knowing that, I govern myself accordingly and have the necessary tools to create an affirmative defense if required. Also, do my business during the daytime and keep silent and move which will solve 90 % of life's problems by causing them to never happen in the first place. On the rural property always packing and not just a handgun. Safe to say, that the vast majority of locations are no longer safe. Excellent presentation as always.
Thank you!
After most my life , I worked putting my hands on people . Until 2018 when I slipped on a mango seed . Responding to an incident . Now I can hardly walk . So I guess I kicked my own ass .
Heck no! I even worry about successfully deploying pepper spray in a situation.
Training and humility is the key in all things 🙂👍
@@411Outdoors Recently stumbled across your channel, you speak with an air of wisdom and humble truth sir. Can I ask, are you ex military?
Over confidence. At the age of 31 years, in 1977, I walked the Khyber Pass. Today, I struggle on the daily walk. I had knife fighting instruction and training - folder, kukuri, sword, fixed blade. A potential fight is over in seconds whether you are 80 years old or 20 years old. A Navy Admiral gave a commencement speech in which he said you had to have a goal and a success every day. His day started with him having a success . . . making his bed. My day is golden when I get through my daily exercise routine.
Great content! Spot on! As to the anger part, my first Sensei told me that when you lose your temper you’ve lost the fight. I’ve seen that myself first hand. Situational awareness, avoidance and deescalation are all very useful skills to develop ego be damned.
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Good information in this video. It hits home with me because I'm 56 yrs old. I used to be an avid weight lifter and worked hard on my cardio. But that was a long time ago. I've been through several years of poor health. Now I'm overweight with bad knees. But I still find myself getting angry at people who are rude or obnoxious. But the fact is I would probably be in a world of hurt if I let my anger push me into a physical confrontation. For me, anger is the enemy.
Awesome advice, thank you for sharing.
False bravado usually ends in injury. The great thing is that most people grow out of it for one reason or another. It is much better to underestimate your skills as it creates a mind that turns immediately to solutions around face to face encounters and hand to hand combat. Brave commentary, thanks!
Funny how growing up in a household where we fist fought our issues away, meet a household where they do other methods, gives one a diff perspective on violence of action!
I think you can add one more. If you are challenging Mike Tyson to a boxing match, you are, probably, overestimating your ability.
But, seriously. It, also, helps, to not strut around like you own the world. I try to look neutral. Not a walking threat, but not a walking target, either. If a potential attacker thinks they may have to think about you, they'll, usually, move on. If you look like you may be trying to be a threat, every meathead near you will be anxious to prove THEIR badassedness, to themselves.
You're a wise man, Mr. Flamingo. Your choice of commentary makes that clear. A very common mistake is to view potential encounters in the street as being the same as encounters in the ring. This idea is all too prevalent, and very dangerous. And, ironically, people who set themselves up as the expert example are, often times, the one to set themselves up for this pitfall. In short, your comment is true on its own merits, but also demonstrates why it's important not to judge a book by its cover. Cultivating as much subtle awareness and discernment as possible is, perhaps, the most effective defense strategy around. 👍👍
@@TheShurikenZone Thanx. Some lessons are learned, some a earned. I've had my clock cleaned, more than enough times, to figure out where I may, previouisly, have gone wrong.😆And these days, I'm too old to mess around with "tough guys". I guess passing 50 proves some kind of survival skill. In certain circles, anyway.🤘
Excellent message. Too many of us who were once a lot tougher still remain in our mind that we are the same as we once were. And it’s a fantasy. We must learn to take a clear headed inventory of our diminishing physical skills and adapt through more humble estimations of our present abilities, relying on prudent choices and stronger situational awareness. We AINT the men we used to be!
A short fight with no rules is not like a sparring session. Try to avoid it because any of us can go down given the right circumstances.
In my head I'm 30...in reality I'm almost 60. I have to remember that.
I even have to do this at 46. I feel strong as I’ve ever been, but I will never overestimate.
Most of the time fighting is absolutely not necessary and the real enemy is our pride that gets us hurt.
I'll give you one example, JOHN FURY 😂😂😂
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Another good video my friend. No matter how much we train or how good we think we are we can always be better. Cross training in different fighting styles where your weaknesses get exposed in a training environment keeps most students humble. Training with partners of different sizes, ages, physiques, strength, etc, is another eye opener. Many years ago one of my martial arts students started cross training in BJJ (Brazilian JuJitsu). He took me to the ground so easily it hurt my ego but he also humbled me and motivated me to incorporate Sprawling and other basic BJJ drills into my standup training. For me it's always better to get humbled in training than be surprised out on the street. The BJJ student earned his BJJ black belt. Right now a good BJJ Black Belt can give most Karate people all they can handle and then some...:) Keep up the great videos my friend. Frank in Texas
Hey now !!when i was a young stud working the Embassy we were the badass team of hung over, high speed, low drag MF's professionals that the other security teams wish they could be. but sadly this morning i fell off the bed trying to get my sock on LOL
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Very good advice. I do not ever remember being angry in a fight. There are split seconds where you may have an opportunity, but it may cost you too. If a fight is unavoidable, make them pay. No one wins all fights, and winners hurt too. Listen to "The Winner" by Bobby Bare. You have some good points here.
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Good 👍! Upkeep is a must!
I loathe fighting. As a young man, I'd been in many, and for every fight I was in, I managed to avoid 5 or 6 of them. I won almost every one, but I am NOT tough. Now I am a senior and do not ever want to have to fight again. At my current age, the first thing I am concerned with is actually injuring myself by moving the wrong way during a confrontation. Not to mention the fact that I have less stamina, less speed, and lesser reflex times than in my prime. I continue to use what I've always used to avoid fights, which is situational awareness, the specific way I carry myself (I don't look or act or move like a victim), and the way I might speak to a potential opponent before hand. All of this is no guarantee, so I pray to God to protect me. I have a distinct feeling that God protects me from far more than I am even aware. Thank you, Lord!
Very well said, could not have said it better!
Changed my whole attitude-Thanks
I just want to avoid all trouble of ANY KIND. Thank you
fighting is awesome if you don't know anything about it, but the more you learn about it the more you bear the responsibility knowing you can put the hurt on someone. Kung Fu movies taught me that.
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Depends upon who is the most drunk when the "monkey dance" starts.
Before i became a street Cop, I was a prison guard. It was a humbling experience. I was strong and in shape..but there were guys in that prison half my size that could have took me apart in 10 seconds!! That memory saved me many times. I fought when I had to. But never forgot those prison scraps!!
Another great video! Thanks!
Thank you for your most important spoken words especially in today’s world.
You are a spiritual man and keep up the fantastic work.
Best regards.
Stuart
From the jungle of NYC and I use Jungle in a symbolic sense, because a true jungle is part of natures wonders.
NYC ain’t.
Thank you!
I'm 68 and like the song says, I'm not as good as I once was !!!
I'm a decent sized guy about 220lbs 5'7 12% body fat and thought I could handle myself until I got into jiu-jitsu and boxing and realized I aint shit. Just in 2 years of boxing and 1 year of jiu-jitsu i can do okay against someone who doesn't know what they are doing but anyone who really knows what they are doing are going to destroy me. Before I started training I was so much more confident in my ability to fight but getting destroyed by someone who weighs 70 lbs less than me and being totally helpless puts shit in perspective. After the training I have done i have never been so un confident in my abilities
Thankfully, the most skilled martial artists aren’t the ones will have to deal out out in the world
@@411Outdoors yeah dude most skilled fighters are smart enough not to go around getting into fights and will de escalate the situation.
5'7", 220, 12% bodyfat @ 57?
You're a world class pro bodybuilder? 😮
@@TheHybridHunter307 nah I am not symmetrical enough and I have really skinny calfs. Even though I am lean and have some muscle I am far from a world class bodybuilder. The 12% body fat was a guesstimate it could be higher.
Well said. Valid points.
Thanks for the video.
I don't even try to estimate my abilities. My health has failed. I'm not in a position to join a class and get real training any longer. I do some things to try to slow my physical decline. Those activities make me stronger, and being stronger will help me if I ever need to fight. Some of those activities are combat activities. I do them in hopes of improving my ability to deal with a situation a little bit, and I do them because they are good exercise to slow my decline.
The more useful idea might be to try to help people figure out where their balance should be in these things. Every hour that someone spends training is an hour that isn't spent earning a living, or doing something to improve one's ability to earn a living, or cleaning the house, or maintaining the car, or improving our minds through learning worthwhile things, or helping a child with homework, or doing any number of other things that we need to do. I really doubt that most of your viewers are spending huge amounts of time just watching junk videos on UA-cam or watching junk TV. For many of your viewers, giving an extra hour to training for self-defense might mean letting go of an hour of something that else that has real value. In some cases, the hour just spent in some mindless, guilty pleasure is something that a person needs to do to relax.
I agree that overestimating one's ability is a problem. The difficulty is knowing when enough is enough in making improvements versus other things in life.
For instance, you mentioned physical fitness. Even though I was grossly overweight around the 2010 time frame, I could throw jab/cross combinations at full power at a heavy bag for five minutes without stopping. Was that good? I don't know. After my health failed, I couldn't throw three or four punches. I've worked my way back to where I can throw maybe a dozen punches.
Many firearms trainers will talk about how FBI studies have said that almost all civilian self-defense situations are resolved with about three to five shots from a distance of about seven yards. Most of us training to use a firearm for self-defense need to think about firing those three shots and get three good hits as fast as possible from five to ten yards.
In a self-defense scenario where one doesn't have a firearm, how many strikes is one likely to need to throw in order to escape. While fighting until I stand over a vanquished foe sounds great, my real goal is only to have the attacker step back and realize that he doesn't want to mess with me any longer. If I am in a position to take a step backwards, I just want the attacker to decide that he's not going to keep pursuing me. For a guy like me with my mindset, how many hard punches is he likely to need to land in order to make the average bad guy decide that this fight doesn't need to continue. If a guy can put up a minute of strong resistance, is that usually enough? Granted, a minute of resistance isn't enough to win a round in an MMA or boxing ring, but for a street fight, the situation is different. In a street fight, winning is often measured by survival. Even if the attacker is "winning" on points, the defender "wins" survival if the attacker steps back after thirty seconds, throws an insult instead of a punch, and walks away from the fight.
I'd apply the same idea to your other warnings. Many of us who are going about the business of living regular lives aren't going to be able to get much real experience. That's going to make changing the second factor difficult. For guys like me, there's no problem of being overconfident because of past victories because I have no past victories or defeats. The idea of relying too much on one's anger is a new concept to me. Personally, I think anyone who relies on anger is being foolish, so I don't think this one needs further explanation directly. On the other hand, a greater explanation of how adrenaline can help and hurt could be useful. Again, the perspective needs to be helping guy who has to decide whether he needs to go to a Krav Maga class tonight or whether he can skip tonight to help his daughter fly a kite. How much can he rely on adrenaline strength? If he can't rely on adrenaline strength, maybe he needs to go to class. If he can put a little more reliance on adrenaline strength, maybe he can afford to spend that time with his daughter and give her another memory of her daddy caring and helping her do something fun.
It’s true as we said in the army the more you bleed in training the less you boletín combat you have to practice with different people who have different styles as Bruce Lee said be water
So true. I really like this video.
Great video
I over estimate mine for sure , but a lot of other people do too. Hopefully they won’t call my bluff! Lol.
I had to lose a lot of fights to realize I’m not a person who likes to start fights. Now many years later I know that I can finish a fight if it comes to it. But fist fighting is different then worrying about defending my life or the life of others.
If you have not been hit hard enough or exercised hard enough to see stars within the last three months, you are overestimating your fighting abilities.
Exactly right.
Thank you...
Truth.
Ive never lost a fight I walked away from. Thats a lot of victories 😆
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Very good video 🤙.
Tu canal es realmente genial. Después de seguir a muchos youtubers, muy buenos por lo demás, tengo que confesar que solo con tus videos he podido ver progresos reales en mis habilidades.
So awesome to hear!🙂
Good video.
As I've mentioned before, quite a bit of experience, but you're life can be over in a split second, irregardless of the level of training, because every situation is different and this lesson may come from someone who is untrained and just having a bad day.
All factual! 👍🏻🇺🇸
I think it is very important to be stoic. How many times have I seen people have adrenaline dumps . For the first 3 seconds they're ferocious then they can't even hold there hands up ! I know I'm old and britle ... so I say I used to be a badass . Now I'm just potentially treterous!
Thinking a street fight with a stranger isnt a chance to breathe your last breath is delusional, you can get stabbed 5 to 7 times before you even know they had a weapon, the first stab happens in the time it takes to say "one thou..". If you want to test your skills on the street so badly that you choose fights that could have been avoided, have your affairs in order, good medical insurance, no loved ones who will be devastated if you aren't in the world anymore. If theres truly no choice at all, then your training and toughness is all you have to live.
Murphys law. Better to expect that your techniques/tools won't be perfectly successful.
Finished the video. Comment #2. Doing hi rep snatches with 16kg-22kg kettlebells and / or high rep swings with 24-32kg kettlebells is the closest feeling to getting into a long fight you can replicate with gym equipment I my opinion. Give it a try, but start with a 16kg or 35-pound bell.
It's best to be a professional sandbagger and let em find out the hard way
I agree with you. I know my condition puts me at a degree of disadvantage. That's why I don't play fair. I don't get into fights anymore though. Somehow I've made it this far without getting into trouble or getting myself hurt. I'm trying to push my luck. I'm on the verge of being old. In the end it's not my physical ability that makes me capable, it's my mind. good tactics are useful.
And when you add in the adrenaline rush of a real fight, I would bet most would be completely and utterly exhausted within the first 15 to 45 seconds AT MOST. So if you do decide to scrap be ready for that (it's hard to add that actual adrenaline feel in training).
I have survived getting stabbed, shot & all kinds of (not so) fun stuff but that is partially due to the fact that i try to never underestimate my opponent or overestimate my ability & i train a lot. There are never any real guarantees. You may have every advantage that day & shit still go sideways. Btw have you ever thought of adding a short "end credit sequence" or something to give us time to like & comment b4 the video ends? It might get you more interaction on your channel. Can't say for sure but maybe..God bless!
I definitely want to shape up my ending for sure. I try to end with a question in most cases but you are correct my friend 🙂
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The red they see may be their own blood..😳😬🙄🙀💥🤷🏻♂️
The reason the guys in the first category overestimate their ability is because they have killed thousands of monsters and zombies in video games. 😅
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Gran video, tienes algún vídeo del eafengrow ef 144 o el ef 145
I got the 145 coming out in the next couple of weeks🙂👍
@@411Outdoors I got the ef 144. What do You think about aus10 steel?
There are two things every man thinks they are good at, and they both start with an f.
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Fighting sucks, i wouldn't last 1 minute in a fight. I'm disabled and can't fight that's why I carry every time I leave the house.
You shouldn’t be ‘fighting’ just watch any fight most of the time both parties go to the hospital, better to concentrate on actual self defense tactics.
YA , I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I .
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If you want to learn to fight and be in shape, find a Ranger or Marine that is willing to train you. We can teach you how to do all of the imperatives mentioned and in three months you'll be ready for a fight or a fun back backing trip. Diet is huge, eat balanced meals with no processed foods and watch tour health improve on all levels. Look at it this way if God himself didn't create it on earth don't eat it. Combined with a fighting doctrine that is easy to learn, extremely effective and basic combined from fighting arts from all over the world. Good for men, woman and kids.
If grunts and crayon eaters can do it so can you
I'm too old to overestimate my fighting ability 😁😉 here's one I heard two days ago anger is just love disappointed
First it is highly annoying to fight. I do not fight, if i got a issue i avoid to engage word it is still king on the street.
I did the first fight l ever had and never again,
I had this scenario where l beat the guy up and girls watched and liked me, well the guy beat me up and his girlfriend got a few shots in also,
a scenario in a fight is stupid , just go for the neck and don’t stop.
Great stuff!
However big, strong, nimble you are, however much endurance you have, in a world of 8 billion, you're guaranteed there are guys beyond you in one or more of those traits any given day. And then there are people willing to do things you hadn't even thought of because you're not a barbarian.
Fighting, if we're not professionals, is the last resort to clear our path to safety.
I fought a lot as a kid. In my adulthood I haven't. Refraining from being a dick was a real milestone in that transition.
The empty wagon rattles the loudest. Stay humble and in shape and deescalate. Lot of guys out there are better fighters than you are.😊
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Yep..i was one of those cocky dudes . Until I picked a fight with the wrong dude. Jab to my face then a check hook. Very fast. I went down. Turns out he was a Golden Gloves Boxer. From that day forward I stopped pretending I was a badass I learned humility and modesty always had pretty good cardio and muscle strength but I never had any martial training then forward I practice boxing and I practice a serious change in my attitude
Thanks for sharing!