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	<itunes:summary>Street Fight Close Quarters Combat Tactics</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Self Defense Escape Technique Uses Old Playground Trick!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most dangerous self-defense situations is one that involves multiple attackers.
It’s bad enough to face someone on the street when he’s bigger and stronger than you.
When you face a group of people who outnumber you, even if they’re smaller than you, as a group they can very easily kill you.
If they get you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most dangerous self-defense situations is one that involves multiple attackers.</p>
<p>It’s bad enough to face someone on the street when he’s bigger and stronger than you.</p>
<p>When you face a group of people who outnumber you, even if they’re smaller than you, as a group they can very easily kill you.</p>
<p>If they get you down onto the ground and then start stomping you, their boots may be the least thing you ever see.</p>
<p>Your priority, then, is to ESCAPE such a scenario.</p>
<p>Escape is not cowardly.</p>
<p>You’re not “backing down” or otherwise making yourself look bad.</p>
<p>If the odds are stacked against you and there is very little chance you can win, only a fool would insist on fighting and ending up being crippled or killed.</p>
<p>Most self defense instructors would rightfully advise you to run away from the fight.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s something that a lot of people don&#8217;t take into account:</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">What If Your Attackers Are <span style="text-decoration: underline;">FASTER</span> Than You?<span id="more-150"></span> </span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left;">Unless you&#8217;re an Olympic athlete, it&#8217;s very possible that one or more of your attackers in a real street fight may be able to catch up to you while you run away.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">If they do, then there&#8217;s no doubt that you&#8217;re going to have to fight and defend yourself only now you’re completely winded, right?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Maybe not.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In fact, here&#8217;s a weird <a title="Self Defense Escape Technique" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeD_SeMBuWo" target="_blank">self-defense escape technique</a> that you can use to get away when they&#8217;re running faster than you&#8230;</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Self Defense Escape Technique Against Multiple Attackers</span></h2>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Ok, do you remember the games we used to play in grade school?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">One that us boys played was a cruel rite of passage for 3rd grade called “Johnny Tackle”.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It was a bit like rugby where one boy had the ball and everyone else&#8217;s job was to tackle him and smear his face into the ground.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">But some of us knew a little escape trick when you knew there was someone right on your heels, ready to take you out&#8230;and you can adapt this weird self-defense escape technique for real-life like this:</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Weird Self-Defense Escape Technique, Step One:</span></h3>
<p>As you&#8217;re running away from one or more attackers, you realize that the person behind you is faster.</p>
<p>You need to use your EARS and anything around you, such as reflections in window glass, to help you determine exactly how far off the pursuer is.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Weird Self-Defense Escape Technique, Step Two:</span></h3>
<p>Wait until your attacker is right on top of you.</p>
<p>This is important, because if you act too early, the technique won’t work and you’ll just be gift-wrapping yourself for your attackers.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t want to telegraph this self defense move.</p>
<h3><span style="color: #800000;">Weird Self-Defense Escape Technique, Step Three: </span></h3>
<p>At the last possible second, just when you hear your attacker within about an arm&#8217;s length away, quickly drop to the ground into a fetal position, forming an instant obstacle.</p>
<p>Your attacker won&#8217;t be able to react in time and will trip over you, likely falling hard to the ground.</p>
<p>Once the opponent is on the ground, you can quickly jump up and counterattack HIM, stomping and kicking him or simply using his crash as your opportunity to escape in self defense.</p>
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		<title>Multiple Attacker Defense &#8211; Rear Hold Escape</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you hate it when you&#8217;re fighting a bad guy and his buddy comes up from behind and grabs you?
Sucks, right?!
The answer isn&#8217;t to &#8220;fight&#8221; his grip and wrestle your way out of it.  You don&#8217;t have time to go strength vs. strength.
Try this instead&#8230; 
Self Defense Technique Against Multiple Attackers:
Rear Arm Grab Escape &#38; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t you hate it when you&#8217;re fighting a bad guy and his buddy comes up from behind and grabs you?</p>
<p>Sucks, right?!</p>
<p>The answer isn&#8217;t to &#8220;fight&#8221; his grip and wrestle your way out of it.  You don&#8217;t have time to go strength vs. strength.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Try this instead&#8230;<span id="more-132"></span><span style="color: #800000;"> </span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Self Defense Technique Against Multiple Attackers:<br />
Rear Arm Grab Escape &amp; Counterattack!</span></h3>
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		<title>Grappling Moves For The Street: Escaping The Mount!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Anderson</dc:creator>
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Picture this&#8230;
You’re on your back on the asphalt of a parking lot.  Something sharp and unpleasant is digging into your back.  You don’t notice that, however, and you don’t try to get up.
Why?  Because you can’t!
There’s  a very large man straddling your body, punching you in the face again and again as he uses his [...]]]></description>
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<p>Picture this&#8230;</p>
<p>You’re on your back on the asphalt of a parking lot.  Something sharp and unpleasant is digging into your back.  You don’t notice that, however, and you don’t try to get up.</p>
<p>Why?  Because you can’t!</p>
<p>There’s  a very large man straddling your body, punching you in the face again and again as he uses his weight to keep you pinned down.<span id="more-94"></span></p>
<p>Congratulations&#8230;you’ve just discovered the horror that is losing position to a ground fighter or mixed martial arts student out on the street.  He’s used his <a title="Grappling Moves For The Street" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51cngT8oEqY" target="_blank">grappling moves</a> to get you into what is called the &#8220;mount&#8221;, and now you’ve got to try to escape it.  If you don’t, it’s all over for you.</p>
<p>While you can’t play the other guy’s game, and you almost never want to deal with a self-defense situation on the other guy’s terms, the only way to get out of the losing end of a grappling situation is to&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Use &#8220;Dirty&#8221; Grappling Moves Of Your Own<br />
To Defeat A Ground Fighter! </strong></em></p>
<p>You’re not really accepting the mixed martial arts philosophy, here, so much as you are acknowledging that grappling got you into a bad position.  Your only choice is to counter-grapple or “anti-grapple” your way back out of that so you can use your combative skills to teach your assailant the error of his ways.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, once you’re caught in the mount, you don’t have many resources. You can try to cover from the blows, but that’s just stalling.  Sooner or later, he’s going to overwhelm you.  If he’s on top of you just pounding away, whittling down your defenses, you won’t last long and he’s going to break through and bust you up eventually.  Time is not on your side.</p>
<p>You do, though, still have your hands free so&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><strong>Here&#8217;s A Grappling Move That Will Come In Handy&#8230;</strong></em></p>
<p>Use one hand and arm to protect your head while he rains his punches down on you.</p>
<p>With the other, form a “tiger claw”, reaching out with your fingers spread to claw into the side of his body.  That roll of skin and muscle, or maybe that big roll of flab, that you’ve just caught in your fingers is yours to take home with you.  Twist it with all your might.</p>
<p>When you do that, even a tough, determined attacker is going to flinch.  Weaker men will howl in pain. It hurts&#8230;bad!  Even in the adrenaline rush of a real street fight, it&#8217;s a force to be reckoned with.</p>
<p>When he’s distracted, if even for just a second, grab the side of his head with your free hand.  Twist and roll, rolling your own body with his so you end up on top and between his legs.  You’re not, technically, in the mount on him, but you’re close; you’re in a superior position, poised for bringing a knee straight up into the family jewels for a knee groin strike or to start striking him with hammer fists.</p>
<p>You’ve turned the tables, and now your grappling moves have him on the losing end of the fight!</p>
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		<itunes:subtitle> Picture this... - You’re on your back on the asphalt of a parking lot.  Something sharp and unpleasant is digging into your back.  You don’t notice that, however, and you don’t try to get up. - Why?  Because you can’t!</itunes:subtitle>
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Picture this...

You’re on your back on the asphalt of a parking lot.  Something sharp and unpleasant is digging into your back.  You don’t notice that, however, and you don’t try to get up.

Why?  Because you can’t!

There’s  a very large man straddling your body, punching you in the face again and again as he uses his weight to keep you pinned down.

Congratulations...you’ve just discovered the horror that is losing position to a ground fighter or mixed martial arts student out on the street.  He’s used his grappling moves to get you into what is called the &quot;mount&quot;, and now you’ve got to try to escape it.  If you don’t, it’s all over for you.

While you can’t play the other guy’s game, and you almost never want to deal with a self-defense situation on the other guy’s terms, the only way to get out of the losing end of a grappling situation is to...
Use &quot;Dirty&quot; Grappling Moves Of Your Own
To Defeat A Ground Fighter! 

You’re not really accepting the mixed martial arts philosophy, here, so much as you are acknowledging that grappling got you into a bad position.  Your only choice is to counter-grapple or “anti-grapple” your way back out of that so you can use your combative skills to teach your assailant the error of his ways.

Unfortunately, once you’re caught in the mount, you don’t have many resources. You can try to cover from the blows, but that’s just stalling.  Sooner or later, he’s going to overwhelm you.  If he’s on top of you just pounding away, whittling down your defenses, you won’t last long and he’s going to break through and bust you up eventually.  Time is not on your side.

You do, though, still have your hands free so...
Here&#039;s A Grappling Move That Will Come In Handy...

Use one hand and arm to protect your head while he rains his punches down on you.

With the other, form a “tiger claw”, reaching out with your fingers spread to claw into the side of his body.  That roll of skin and muscle, or maybe that big roll of flab, that you’ve just caught in your fingers is yours to take home with you.  Twist it with all your might.

When you do that, even a tough, determined attacker is going to flinch.  Weaker men will howl in pain. It hurts...bad!  Even in the adrenaline rush of a real street fight, it&#039;s a force to be reckoned with.

When he’s distracted, if even for just a second, grab the side of his head with your free hand.  Twist and roll, rolling your own body with his so you end up on top and between his legs.  You’re not, technically, in the mount on him, but you’re close; you’re in a superior position, poised for bringing a knee straight up into the family jewels for a knee groin strike or to start striking him with hammer fists.

You’ve turned the tables, and now your grappling moves have him on the losing end of the fight!</itunes:summary>
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