How To Train To Defeat The #1 Street Fight Takedown!

I love interrogating my cop buddies.

They spend all day interviewing people and it’s fun to turn the tables on them.

My favorite question to ask them?

“What’s the number one street attack that the bad guys are using right now?”

I asked my friend Officer Von that exact question the other day.

He said that the number one unarmed attack that he’s seen lately is a variation of the double leg pick up from wrestling.

He said that the bad guy shoots in, bear hugs your knees or ankles and then lifts you up and dumps you on your side.

From there he “grounds and pounds” you.

If he’s alone or if he’s with his friends, they’ll toe kick and stomp kick you when you’re down.

If the bad guys in your area are successfully using a specific attack regularly then it only makes good self defense sense to practice defending against such attacks.

And this brings me to the the heart of my admonishment…

Reality Based Self Defense Training MUST
Be Based On Real Street Fight Scenarios!

If it’s not, then you’re not training in reality based self defense.

Do your own research and ask your own local law enforcement about what attacks they’re seeing in your community.

Your answer could be different than mine.

But…to practice self defense against the takedown I just described, I would approach it by chunking the pieces of the attack down…

Training Plan To Defeat The Number One Street Fight Takedown

• The first thing that you want to practice is SPOTTING the takedown attempt (Hint: look for the level change in your training partner’s shoulders!)
• Next, you’ll practice defense against the takedown, such as “sprawling”
• Then (just in case), you’ll want to train in how to fall safely if you ARE taken down
• Also, see how quickly you can get back on your feet after hitting the ground
• And finally, if you can’t get up immediately, you need to know how to survive being ground and pounded and/or kicked when you’re down, possibly by multiple attackers

Each self defense system may take a different view on the actual self defense techniques used in these scenarios.

But when it comes to your training, you want to model any self defense techniques or tactics that are successfully being used in real street fights against fully resisting attackers, even if the techniques are being used by the bad guys.

I’ve included this takedown into my combatives program years ago after researching how inmates fight in prisons and you should develop your own response to this street fight scenario with your own self defense techniques.