Thoughts on Rickson's BJJ/Self Defense claims?

[Veiled Threat]

here in sc, yes. cwp is $40 and an instructor course.

so you sleep with it on you?
you shower with it on you?
you take it every single place you do no matter what?
you never go out of state?

 

[Veiled Threat]

unarmed combat is a fucking fiasco last ditch option.

fact is that when you are here, you have no other options. You either have training or not. and if not your chances just went down.

I am just realistic and not one of the all or nothing people which seems pervasive today.

You cannot count on having a weapon on you at all times (even in the shower sitting on our couch, etc). You can't count on others at all times. you can't run away at all times.

I would want to be ready for as much as possible.

 

[Diode]

so you sleep with it on you?
you shower with it on you?
you take it every single place you do no matter what?
you never go out of state?

the m&p shield? i sleep with it next to me, yes.

i'd get to it from the shower before an intruder could make it up the stairs, though i prefer my mossberg 500 for home defense.

a .380acp (lc9, bodyguard, etc) can easily be taken anywhere in the pocket, no iwb or owb holster required.

every state in my immediate area reciprocates and/or reciprocates a utah out of state cwp, which most places file for you along with sc's here. you take the same course for utah's nonresident cwp, no need to go to utah.

anyway, your argument is based upon grappling being superior to having a weapon. it is not. not in any circumstance. yes, it is better than having no training and it is useful when dealing with unavoidable confrontation when you are unarmed.

but i am armed more often than i am not. it's prudent to do so.

 

[Zankou]

fact is that when you are here, you have no other options. You either have training or not. and if not your chances just went down.

I am just realistic and not one of the all or nothing people which seems pervasive today.

You cannot count on having a weapon on you at all times (even in the shower sitting on our couch, etc). You can't count on others at all times. you can't run away at all times.

I would want to be ready for as much as possible.

My point is that it's *inefficient*. You have guys who are practicing unarmed combat like crazy for years, rather than carrying weapons and learning how to use them. This is ass-backwards. It's as though the military were to spend years training their soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The guy who does even a little bit of weapons training and carries a weapon is already 10 to 1 up on you in a life-or-death struggle.

Here's how you keep your family safe: Step one, get a good job, move to a decent area. Don't take your family dangerous places, and make sure they don't go dangerous places. Avoid danger.

Got that? Okay, we are 98% of the way already.

Step two, invest in basic home security.

Step three, acquire weapons and do some training with them.

Step 9,999,999, become a deadly unarmed combat specialist. That's good for wedding brawls and parking lot disputes, but it sucks ballz as a way of training serious defense for your family against a murderous assailant. Just like it sucks ballz for warfare.

 

[Zankou]

Btw, it always makes me LOL when guys bring up guys who have been in lots of street fights as experts on personal safety. You know how many street fights I've been in? None. Why? Because it's just not that hard to avoid street fights. These guys getting in lots of street fights are the absolute worst place to go for advice on how to keep your family safe. They are complete failures at the art of avoiding violent conflict. That CPA down the road is the guy who knows how to avoid violent conflicts.

 

[Nnedd]

My point is that it's *inefficient*. You have guys who are practicing unarmed combat like crazy for years, rather than carrying weapons and learning how to use them. This is ass-backwards. It's as though the military were to spend years training their soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The guy who does even a little bit of weapons training and carries a weapon is already 10 to 1 up on you in a life-or-death struggle.

Here's how you keep your family safe: Step one, get a good job, move to a decent area. Don't take your family dangerous places, and make sure they don't go dangerous places. Avoid danger.

Got that? Okay, we are 98% of the way already.

Step two, invest in basic home security.

Step three, acquire weapons and do some training with them.

Step 9,999,999, become a deadly unarmed combat specialist. That's good for wedding brawls and parking lot disputes, but it sucks ballz as a way of training serious defense for your family against a murderous assailant. Just like it sucks ballz for warfare.

At work we were talking about guns today. They all know I train and compete, and a guy said he was surprised I carry a gun, because I'm a good fighter.

I told him my order of fighting is to avoid, de-escalate, escape, and if I have to, stand my ground. And if I have to stand my ground, to use a weapon.

That has a good twenty year unbroken record of protecting me.

 

[JohnSouth]

Btw, it always makes me LOL when guys bring up guys who have been in lots of street fights as experts on personal safety. You know how many street fights I've been in? None. Why? Because it's just not that hard to avoid street fights. These guys getting in lots of street fights are the absolute worst place to go for advice on how to keep your family safe. They are complete failures at the art of avoiding violent conflict. That CPA down the road is the guy who knows how to avoid violent conflicts.

I got in one in friend's house, was laying there in me knickers taking a nap and boom, armed psycho high as a kite right in front of me with a knife.

I was able to resolve the problem with my fists but it woke me up. Definitely glad I didn't shoot the guy, I was in bad enough trouble for what I did to his face.

Because it was someone else's house and the issue of whether or not they were invited in was murky...not to mention the issue of poor English on their part I was in serious danger of arrest and trial despite him being totally wrong, drunk and crazy home invader.

Damn near lost everything over that, cop said he's free to press charges when he sobers up. We were able to blackmail him basically over some other violent stuff he'd done to my friend.

My advice is stay away from guns, you're better off as a victim. If Al Sharp gets involved you're done.

 

[NateTx4112]

I got in one in friend's house, was laying there taking a nap and boom, armed psycho high as a kite right in front of me with a knife.

What city/ghetto did this happen in?

 

[Diode]

What city/ghetto did this happen in?

 

[JohnSouth]

What city/ghetto did this happen in?

A very well off one and I'm a well off guy, that was the surprising part of it.

It was not a random street crime, it was a stalker and it was personal.

I was doing everything right and still got it, only thing I could have done is abandoned my friend to get beaten and raped or possibly worse. He already forced his way in against their wishes.

I chose to immediately attack and expel the intruder.

 

[Veiled Threat]

Why? Because it's just not that hard to avoid street fights.

step 1 learn firearm shooting/safety
step 2 learn bjj

You live in a fantasy world if you think you always have a gun on you especially in good old california.


now to address what you are saying in the quote
insert video of teacher walking from work or man by his kid's school waiting to pick him up who gets KO'd game.

Your statement is pure arrogance. The real reason you have not been in a fight is because in addition to you not wanting one, no one has wanted one with you enough.

Some day you might meet a woman who has a crazy ex unbeknownst to you.
maybe someday you have kids and they get involved with someone.

I have never been robbed. therefore it is not going to happen to me now. i am too old to start this.

Fact is that if someone wants to fight you, they will. I have seen it.

 

[JohnSouth]

Or fantasy land where you live. lol

 

[NateTx4112]

A very well off one and I'm a well off guy, that was the surprising part of it.

It was not a random crime, it was a stalker and it was personal.

I was doing everything right and still got it, only thing I could have done is abandoned my friend to get beaten and raped or possibly worse.

I chose to attack and expel the intruder.

Did this happen near Baltimore???? Was your friend training for an upcoming fight?!

 

[Oldguy]

My point is that it's *inefficient*. You have guys who are practicing unarmed combat like crazy for years, rather than carrying weapons and learning how to use them. This is ass-backwards. It's as though the military were to spend years training their soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. The guy who does even a little bit of weapons training and carries a weapon is already 10 to 1 up on you in a life-or-death struggle.

Here's how you keep your family safe: Step one, get a good job, move to a decent area. Don't take your family dangerous places, and make sure they don't go dangerous places. Avoid danger.

Got that? Okay, we are 98% of the way already.

Step two, invest in basic home security.

Step three, acquire weapons and do some training with them.

Step 9,999,999, become a deadly unarmed combat specialist. That's good for wedding brawls and parking lot disputes, but it sucks ballz as a way of training serious defense for your family against a murderous assailant. Just like it sucks ballz for warfare.

100% truth. A 16 year punk with a $40 Spyderco knife = Roger Gracie.

The best defenses are layered. Be armed and know how to use a gun. Have a knife and the skills to use it. Have stand up striking skills. Know how to grapple.

And, be smart enough to run away when the situation dictates.

 

[JohnSouth]

Did this happen near Baltimore???? Was your friend training for an upcoming fight?!

No and no.

Baltimore is not well off by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[JohnSouth]

100% truth. A 16 year punk with a $40 Spyderco knife = Roger Gracie.

The best defenses are layered. Be armed and know how to use a gun. Have a knife and the skills to use it. Have stand up striking skills. Know how to grapple.

And, be smart enough to run away when the situation dictates.

Use a knife to "defend" yourself and I can almost guarantee you a stretch in the pokey. Good to know but mostly useless, may as well carry a sword.

I'd put my money on the Gracie, especially those old patriarchs. If I had a knife I'd run for my life from Rickson.

 

[Oldguy]

You live in a fantasy world if you think you always have a gun on you especially in good old california.

I live in Orange County, CA. I always have a gun on me. I am 30 minutes from Disneyland and do not live in fantasy world.

 

[Oldguy]

Use a knife to "defend" yourself and I can almost guarantee you a stretch in the pokey.

If you have reasonable belief you are in fear of your life, you have the right to respond with deadly force.

Your statement is retarded. I can guarantee you have no clue what you are talking about.

 

[JohnSouth]

If you have reasonable belief you are in fear of your life, you have the right to respond with deadly force.

Your statement is retarded. I can guarantee you have no clue what you are talking about.

In theory you do, but you'll go to trial nonetheless and depending how rich lose everything.

I have a cop in my class, cost you 10k minimum even if you were right. You may pay his medical bills regardless.

Like I said, I was almost arrested for beating a guy with my fists clearly in the right. If I had hacked him up I'd be in a jail cell or entering bankruptcy trying to stay out of one right now.

Thank god I had no knife and he did. That's really how I look at it.

 

[Zankou]

I got in one in friend's house, was laying there in me knickers taking a nap and boom, armed psycho high as a kite right in front of me with a knife.

I was able to resolve the problem with my fists but it woke me up. Definitely glad I didn't shoot the guy, I was in bad enough trouble for what I did to his face.

Because it was someone else's house and the issue of whether or not they were invited in was murky...not to mention the issue of poor English on their part I was in serious danger of arrest and trial despite him being totally wrong, drunk and crazy home invader.

Damn near lost everything over that, cop said he's free to press charges when he sobers up. We were able to blackmail him basically over some other violent stuff he'd done to my friend.

My advice is stay away from guns, you're better off as a victim. If Al Sharp gets involved you're done.

See that's my point. I myself didn't get involved in anything like this, and I'm not at all convinced that the guy who does get involved is the one who understands how to avoid it. If anything, he's the worst possible source of advice on that subject.

And again, as a genteel lawyer with a spotless record living in a nice area of town, I can confidently attest that if I happened to shoot a knife-wielding intruder (which would happen only with my judicious exercise of judgment that it needed to be done for my family's safety), no fucks will be given by anybody. Just applause.