Close Quarters Combat Advice From General Patton
General George Patton once said…
“The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.”
While this battlefield mantra has been a driving force for decades in our military mind-set of “never giving up” in combat, applied to the reality of a real street fight, these words ring just as true.
I’ve seen countless street fights where the person “losing” the battle just gives up…basically curling up into a ball and waiting for the kicks and punches to stop.
Sometimes they do…and sometimes they don’t.
So let me throw a different spin on General Patton’s quote…The object of surviving a real street fight is NOT to lay down and take your beating…but to NEVER give up on turning the tables on your attacker.
Even under the worst conditions, you must dig deep for your will to survive and assume that it’s life or death when you’re on the losing end.
If you lay down like an armadillo, you’re an easy, non-moving target for full force kicks, punches, and bar stools.
Whether your attacker(s) intend to kill you or not, the leg of a chair driven down on your head will do the work just the same.
From my perspective, self defense techniques are great tools for winning a fight…but developing a “never give up” mind-set is an even more important factor.
I couldn’t agree more Jeff. Developing a killer instinct and the ability to ‘pull the trigger’ (mentally) is critical to surviving a violent street encounter as there are no refs in the street that will stop the fight when someone taps out.
I could not agree more. I have never given up when it comes to survival, and God knows how many times I have been in such a situation. But I keep studying everything that I can in order to make myself a better street fighter. It is very dangerous out there, and you need all the information that you can get your hands on. Thank you for sharing your know how with us good guys.
I told him to leave the two old ladies alone. He jumped me and I went with him and drove his head into the table corner like Capt. Romulas in RED OCTOBER when he killed the russian security officer. The guy was a 40+ ex-con and he pushed my head partially through the wall and came at my face with a HAMMER. I could barely see it and knew I was dead but he would have to earn that.
Then I realized the hammer was coming down at me r-e-a-l s-l-o-w. I caught it in in my left palm and drove it into his eye socket once twice, thrice. The lady said,”your going to kill him” and he replied I’m trying to kill him, just as the Police Officer came in. Its been 2 years and he still cannot drive and I have 9 Motorcycles in my garage. I am a retired Master Chief w/7y in Viet Nam and I was 70 years old. NEVER GIVE UP, SUCK UP THE PAIN USE YOUR HEAD AND ALL SENSES. Teach me to fight. I have the spirit and am still strong and able!
Very rarely do I like or agree with what people have to say on self defense, but I really like your stuff man. Keep up the great work and thanks for the tips
Followed six guys into an alleyway. They’d chased a guy from a bar across the street and into the alley. When I arrived, the guy was on the ground and the guys were kicking him. I jumped the two nearest guys, caught the one on my right on the ear with the flat of my hand as I cracked the knee-joint of one on the left. Two down. Keeping momentum, I jumped over the guy they’d been kicking and did a push-thrust with my hands on the chest of the guy across the way. His feet left the ground and he flew backwards. I spun on the guy on my left, and making a claw of my right hand, I laid open his left cheek. As he fell back, I turned to the other two who were just now reacting, took the blood on my fingers and made warpaint on my cheeks. Those guys took one look at me and ran.
The cops arrived soon after that, got the guns on me, until they realized what had happened. Score: Three guys ran away. The one with the laid-open cheek was arrested when he showed up at the hospital to get stitched up. The guy I’d bounced back into the alley had a broken sternum, cracked ribs, and needed surgery to repair a torn peritoneum and a collapsed lung. The guy with the knee injury needed reconstructive surgery and now hobbles around jail with a brace.
The guy I went there to save, unfortunately, died from his injuries. There but for the grace of God, friends…
As Winston Churchill said: “Never, never, never, never, never give up!”
Jeff:
Can you teach someone who is always ready to give the other buy a chance to develop an aggressive killer attitude. Please email me.
thanks
Joe