| Let?s speak about the psychological aspect of a | | | | If you cannot do that and you know you will be |
| street collision. You should differentiate two items. You | | | | attacked inevitably, you should act quickly, harshly and |
| must realize, whether your fight is a result of a usual | | | | be the first with attack actions. Lots of things depend |
| domestic conflict, or you are attacked by a robber, | | | | on who starts the battle first. This is the main distinction |
| killer or bandit. Your actions will flow depending on | | | | of a street fight. When you train in the sports gym, it is |
| these circumstances. | | | | not important at all who will attack first. Both fighters |
| If it is an everyday domestic conflict that happens in | | | | are ready to attack and defense. |
| the street (someone pushed you or your leg, disturbed | | | | It is not the same thing in the street fight. Opponents |
| the queue order etc.), you should not use your fighting | | | | rarely stand at the certain stances (as in the sport |
| knowledge and skills to put your opponent out of | | | | gym) and are situated in close distance quite often. In |
| action. | | | | other words, they are in the hitting zone of each other. |
| As a rule, all these conflicts occur because of trifles, | | | | Hence, a person who starts his attack first has a huge |
| and you need to behave normally in this case, let?s | | | | advantage. Attack here means just the most harsh |
| say naturally. When this conflict happens, no one | | | | and strong action and not the expressive gestures at |
| wants to fight actually, but just gets rid of the negative | | | | usual domestic conflict. |
| energy that was accumulated. | | | | I always feel awkward when I am forced to come into |
| Those who express harshly their negative reaction are | | | | such conflict. When I see a person standing in front of |
| not dangerous at all in most cases. He will threaten | | | | myself and offending me, I feel ashamed for this |
| you, make expressive gestures, grab you with iron | | | | conflict that occurred. This person cannot be |
| fingers but nothing more will happen. This is nothing but | | | | dangerous for me, he is completely defenseless. |
| the pose which does not contain real threat at all. | | | | I know that I can put him out of action in a moment, but |
| However, there are exceptions in this case too. You | | | | my consciousness does not let me do that. As we |
| must define at once who is dangerous and who is not. | | | | see, such clashes that happen in shops, public |
| I would like to precise one thing. Though laws and | | | | transport, streets etc are not the fight itself, but just an |
| principles of a hand-to-hand fighting are the same, a | | | | everyday conflict. |
| sports battle in a gym differs greatly from that one | | | | Real fight happens when your enemy or enemies are |
| happened in the street. If you are calm when fight in a | | | | certain in their superiority over you. For example, it may |
| sports gym and don?t worry about fatal injury, you will | | | | be numerical advantage, force advantage or |
| be extremely nervous when come across your real | | | | armament advantage. |
| enemy in the street. You won?t fight according to rule | | | | So, I strongly recommend to you: try to avoid street |
| (as you do in the sports gym), you need to act most | | | | fight at any cost. If you see you are about to be |
| quickly and cruelly sometimes for your effective self | | | | attacked, you need to act most quickly and harshly. |
| defense. | | | | You must always remember that if your enemy is |
| The psychological aspect plays a very important role | | | | eager to fight with you, he is sure in his superiority. If he |
| in the street scuffle. You must prevent your enemy?s | | | | is alone and is not too strong or high, but still wants to |
| attack or take the lead over him. Therefore, I advise | | | | fight, it means most likely that he is either armed with |
| you on no account not to start fighting if you see you | | | | the weapon or instructed of some martial art. |
| can avoid it. | | | | |