BTG 153 - Everyone Should Fight

[Music] Hello and welcome to another episode of Breaking the Guard. On today's episode, I want to talk about what I feel is something that every person should know how to do, which is fight, or at the very least understand what happens when people fight. because I've been sent a few clips uh this past week showing a lot of people getting into fights that have zero business uh being in a fight or understanding how a fight works or the consequences. And uh I'm sure this is nothing new, but I think it's just because with the internet and videos going viral, like we're seeing lots of these things happen now where you have someone that's so completely incompetent and it's uh to someone who this is all they do, it's jarring, right? Uh like I'm not talking about like just the average person like security guards getting into fights that couldn't punch themselves out of a wet paper bag. And it's to me just mind-blowing like how would I get into a position where the job is about security which means fighting at some point and you don't know anything about how to fight. That would be like me uh deciding to become a chauffeur and never driven a car before. It's totally first I shouldn't have never been able to qualify for the position to begin with. And then second, like what do I think is going to happen when I get in that car, right? I'm just going to learn it as I go. It's it's one thing if it's just myself, but I'm putting other people at risk. So, it's a big liability here. And uh I've seen this across multiple things, you know. Uh there was one there was a security guard. There was another one a teacher where the student was getting completely unruly and pushing him around, punched him in the face. And I'm guessing the teacher wasn't trying to defend himself by fighting back because they probably would get fired because the way things are nowadays. Uh so he just kind of motioned and like guided the kid out of the school. But you could see someone else wasn't appreciating it. And off camera you could see like or not off camera, but there was a door. The door was opening and you could see as the kids going through being led to the door, someone else jumps in, body locks him and slams him to the ground. Um, which is what probably should have happened to begin with. uh some might argue, right? Because it's not just about knowing how to fight, but understanding the consequences of getting to fights. You see, like some people when they fight, they think it's like to they take it as an ego thing. Like, oh, I I'm just trying to show I am the better than you or I'm an alpha, right? Like, you know, I could big dog you and you're going to take it because, you know, I'm willing to fight for it. But and for people who don't know how to fight, that's what fighting is usually about. If you know how to fight and you understand the nature of combat, then fighting is about killing you or at the very least defending yourself from somebody trying to hurt you or others around you. When you have that type of mindset, fighting is about ending the threat. And that's how you would I I shouldn't have said killing you because that's not a great way of saying it, especially legally, but it's about ending a threat, right? Um, so I'm going to do whatever it takes to stop the threat. If that means putting you six feet under, so be it, right? If that means slamming in your head, that's what it's going to be. But when somebody who's trying to make a ego statement fights somebody who's trying to stop a threat, they're going to find that there is a big difference in motive, right? Because I'm not going to chill out on you just because I feel like I can quotequote big dog you. Like I'm going to put you down and make sure you're not coming back up so that the people that I'm with feel safe. Uh, so for example, that kid that was pushing around the teacher and like punching him and whatnot, he probably thought he had plot armor. He's like, I'm a kid. Teacher can't punch me. No one can hit me. I am I can bully my way through. And he ran into somebody that saw him as a threat and put him down. So, we have to understand that when we fight somebody, it's not going to always be in the rule set that we think it is, right? Like, we might think, oh, you know, we're not going to do, you know, I'm not going to try to kill this guy, you know, like I just want to embarrass him. Yeah, but that's your rule set. When we're fighting on the street, there is no rules, right? So, you might be restricted to what you think is acceptable, but that guy's not going to be restricted to that, right? Um, it's kind of like, and I've seen this in other viral clips before, where a guy, uh, this was in Puerto Rico, and a guy was drinking late at night with a bunch of strangers that he didn't know, and they weren't really paying him too much attention. We can't hear the audio, but just by body language, you could see that one guy is getting pretty feisty. Uh, and he's getting very loud. And the other guy is kind of not really respecting him body language wise. He's turned away from him, kind of just looking behind him. He behind his head and, you know, just saying some stuff. And the guy that's feisty has a bottle that he was drinking and then he reverses the bottle. So, not a good sign, right? Because I'm not going to drink a bottle, you know, with the the end this way, right? I'm going to hit somebody with it. But the other guy, since he had his back turned to him, couldn't really see it. No one else was really paying attention. And at a certain point, this guy smashes the bottle in the back of his head, right? And after he smashes the bottle in the back of the head, he just kind of stands back and looks like he's waiting to start a fist fight. Unfortunately for that guy, he didn't realize he was fighting a bunch of gangsters. And the guy that got hit with a bottle pulls out a gun and so do so does another member of this guy's gang. And now the other guy's like, "Oh, whoa, whoa." Like, yeah, like you pulled out a a bottle to a gunfight, right? And two people ended up getting shot there. is that besides the point of the story, but you just never know what type of fight you're going to get into when you start one, right? Uh so this is why I would caution people. Be selective with who you choose to fight with, right? Because it might not go down the way you think it will, right? You might think we're just going to punch and this guy's going to stab you or he might kick you in the nuts or he might bite you, right? Like you just never know. Fighting is very chaotic. So you shouldn't just be picking fights just because you're mad at somebody. That is not a legitimate excuse to fight somebody. The only legitimate excuse to fight somebody, you feel there's a threat on you or someone close to you that you need to stop. That's it. And the fight ends when the threat's over. That protects you legally. And that will protect you from fighting needlessly because mo a lot of these are needless fights. They did not have to happen. And uh some of the consequences can be very dire. Like I said, a lot of times people die. Doesn't take much to die in the street. You get punched once, your head hits the concrete, it's over. So you have to be uh very careful. But so that's one part of it, right? Like understanding fight consequences. I shouldn't be getting into fights if I'm not ready to deal with those type of consequences, right? Like if I'm mad at the teacher, am I ready to die? Because if I'm not, I probably shouldn't be provoking a fight, right? So obviously that kid totally in the wrong. Um, now do I think the body slam on a hard court was a little bit of overreaction? Yes. But understandable, right? But especially in the context like the situation was already diffused like he was being led out of the school. He was still chippy but nothing really was going to happen uh that we can tell at least from video. And this guy ran from like one side of the room to the other side of the room just to tackle and body slam him. Seemed like he was more upset than anything. Uh, so yeah, like anybody watching is like kid deserved it, but if the kid's dead, are you going to feel good about that? Probably not, right? Uh, so that's one part of it. I think another part of it is understanding when you are fighting somebody like what actually happens when you're fighting to stop a threat. Because most people have probably never seen someone get knocked unconscious in live before. I'm sure on TV we all have at some point, but in person, like couple feet apart, seeing someone get knocked out by a punch or get choked out unconscious or have our arm broken, that's not something that's very common to most people these days. You know, it's funny to me because I I know a lot of kids that they said they never even been in a fight before. I'm like, what? Like I've been I was fighting like every year in school multiple times. Like I got into lots of scraps. Obviously probably why I became a fighter at some point. But it seems beyond me that you wouldn't get into at least one fight in grade school, much less high school. Um but not knowing like what actually happens when you're getting into a fight. I think it's important because there's one other incident that I saw that's trending now in MMA is Rampage's son, Rampage Jackson's son, I think it's Rya, was supposed to be some part of some like pro wrestling event. And he was supposed to slam somebody and fake punch him a few times. And what we end up seeing happen looks like an attempted murder because he picks up, slams a guy hard, which I'm not clear if the guy faked being knocked out or was legitimately knocked out because his head did bounce off the wall the the the ring floor. It's uncertain. But if that didn't knock him out, the following punches, which were plenty, maybe like 10 or 15 consecutive punches, would have done the job because he never defended himself. Hands were down and apparently never came up on his own, had to be taken to the hospital. And what was crazy to me was that one, like how did he think he could do this uh and two, there was three people watching it. The referee was like 2 feet away from him and didn't do anything about it. And I know the referee is not a real referee in the sense that like it's a fake work show, but he obviously had to know that this man's unconscious and this guy's going to kill him because eventually someone did pull him apart and thank God for that. But we had just at least two other men that were there because there was another opponent and then the referee that I can recall that were within arms reach that were just watching the Rampage's son try to end this guy. And I read something that they that he thought that he was allowed to do that. I'm like they you thought you were allowed to kill somebody? Are you that ignorant of fighting? And apparently he's an MMA fighter. So he's not right. Uh that's what they reported that he's trained MMA. So it's not like he doesn't understand knockouts, right? Or the consequences of punches. What happens when someone's unconscious and you keep punching in the head, right? Like um so I don't believe it for it looks like malice. And I did see one other thing where the guy broke a beer bottle or a beer can on his face and someone was suggesting that he was mad and he was going to get his payback uh on the show. But getting a beer can smashed in your face, which by the way doesn't really hurt now. At least I mean I saw the video of it. It just kind of splatter on him and he's like, "Okay, I'm good. I'm good." He probably didn't like it ego-wise, but it's a big difference between that and slamming someone on the head and then punching them 10 times in the face undefended. So he from my understanding he was trying to plead ignorance to it like, "Oh, I thought I was in the right here." Unless you're mentally you had to know you were hurting this guy severely. To me, this looks like attempted murder. And uh on him, I don't know how you defend that. You're going to say you were mad because he did something to you before. Doesn't justify it, right? The guy was no threat to you. You He was playing a work. You were supposed to beat him up. Fake, not real. Kill him. And then two, the people around them. What are you doing? You're going to let someone die in front of you that's your friend and coworker? It seems insane to me. And I feel it's this type of thing that is a bigger problem in society these days, which is people are afraid to step in. Right? I see someone getting accosted on the street and I'm watching from the outside. I'm like, "This person looks like they're in danger, but not my circus, not my monkey, right? I'm not going to get involved with it. I don't want to get in trouble. I don't know the full context. I'm just going to stay in my lane as some person is getting assaulted on the street. That's not a good country to live in, right? That's not a good place to live in. If we're supposed to be a community of people, I should be able to defend people I see, even if I don't know them, just because I know it's the right thing to do. And the reason I would say that is if it was somebody I knew being attacked, I would hope someone would come and save them. And guess what? That means I have to be held by that same standard. So, if I was seeing someone get beat up, I would believe the right thing would do would be to try to step in there and and at the very least diffuse the situation, you know, so that no one gets hurt worse than they already are. But when everybody's afraid of getting sued or, you know, misunderstanding a situation, everybody just steps back. And in this case, I think it's a lot easier, especially when you're the referee, you know, referee. Like, you can call the match off if you see someone getting beaten to death. So, I have a really hard time understanding what the referee was was thinking there. Like, why didn't you stop in there? He could have tackled him and it would have been over. We had to wait for someone else to get in there. It's just insane. Um, you I feel at a certain point you have to put decency above whatever the law is, right? Like are we just going to submit everything to And cuz there's enough stuff that you can watch online where people are just getting abused and people are just looking watching around and not doing anything. Like they do these little things that probably most of them are fake but I'm sure some of them are real where you'll see like a little kid being walking on the street and then somebody just jumps and kidnaps him and no one does anything. And that one was in particular I was watching was a stage one and the re and what they were going for is to see if anybody would actually come and save this kid. And on the videos they showed no one was right, which is kind of horrifying because you imagine if that was your kid and no one stepped up to save him because they're like, "Oh, not my circus, not my monkey." You know, so it's not great. I I feel especially as men, you got to be able to step up when the the time calls for it, right? Granted that it doesn't I do understand like not everyone can jump in there and do that, especially if you're going to end up endangering the people you're with, right? Uh there is a risk assessment that has to be made. Uh, but if it's within your power to help somebody without endangering anyone else besides yourself considerably, you really have to ask yourself, I mean, am I just going to, you know, not do anything here and let someone get hurt? What if the tables were turned? How would I want this to play out? Cuz it's alarming to me, you know? Uh, yeah. But in any case, the the last thing I'll go with is just security guards not knowing how to fight. It's like a policeman not knowing how to shoot or how to deescalate, right? Uh take your job seriously. Like I I I think just from a hiring position, you shouldn't be hiring somebody who has no self-defense skills. if I've never learned how to to fight before, you shouldn't be a security guard because at some point you're going to get into a physical altercation just by the virtue of it and or you might have to lead someone outside. How are you going to do that? You don't have any training. What's going to happen when you grab somebody and you don't know how to grab them, right? And then they start grabbing you. So, it seems crazy. And then I mean I've seen this my whole life because I I grew up going to public schools and the security guards were almost always morbidly obese people that could barely move which we always laughed at. It's like who are they going to chase around the school? This guy can't even you know jog let alone run after me. It's pretty much just a big wall at the end of the day. Like that should be an instant disqualifier. Uh, you need to be physically fit and you need to know self-defense. You need to know how to control people. And ideally, as a security guard, you're not trying to strike people ideally, but you need to know how to grapple and pin people. Uh, and it's clear that most of them don't. They just hire somebody who can carry a flashlight and like, okay, that's it. It's a very low bar. And obviously police are better, but not all of them, right? Uh and that's why I love it when, you know, at the gym we have police officers, firefighters, and all sorts of people who are in a dangerous line of work who are training cuz I'm like, I feel a lot better knowing that cuz I know these people will be able to handle themselves. And they always, well, not always, but we do get lots of stories coming from them about how they were able to handle themselves uh better because they had the martial arts skills. And of course, you're going to have a lot more confidence uh getting into some type of physical altercation if you train martial arts because you're doing it all the time. It's not going to be a rare experience, right? Whereas the security guard who has never been in a fight his life, he's going to be completely stressed out, big and tweaked when he gets into a fight because it's going to be his first time and it's probably not going to go great. So, especially as a man, you you have to know how to fight. I'm not saying you have to be a black belt, you know, world champion, but at least train for like six months. You could quit after that if you want. I don't see how you would, but just do six months and a little bit of everything, right? Like get on the ground, wrestle a little bit, learn how to throw some hands, understand the consequences of the different submissions and the different strikes just so you know the reality of combat. For one, it's going to humble you quite a bit. And then on the second hand, it's going to make you understand that, you know, it's not worth getting into a fight with somebody just because I'm a little upset because I understand that it can the consequences for getting into a fight can be severe, life-ending. And especially if I'm fighting somebody and I don't know what their their moral values are, what their rule set is. I might be trying to, you know, fight with hands and they're they're trying to fight with bullets. So they're trying to fight, you know, with a blade. So, I think at the very least every person should have some type of martial arts training just as a baseline so you don't get these embarrassing clips of people looking completely clueless on what to do and just not being ready for what's coming. Because especially with the internet now, I would hope that people can see someone else and like, man, that's embarrassing. I don't want to be that guy. And right now, if I'm being honest, I would be that guy cuz I have no fight training. Let me sign up for gym classes just so I have at least a basic level of understanding and maybe I'll do better to avoid being caught in that situation. Cuz look, as much as I would love it if everybody trained, it's not realistic. Um, but is it possible for somebody to train for 6 months, twice a week? 100% it is. Everybody can do that. And I think it'll do a whole lot of good for you. And you, who knows, you might even fall in love with it. But if you don't, that's fine. But at least you'll know the basics, you know, and maybe you can watch a UFC and actually know what's going on. It's a kind of a perk, too. All right. Anyhow, that's all I have for you guys. Thanks for tuning in and I'll catch you next