Self Defense And Street Fight Psychology

Let?s speak about the psychological aspect of aIf you cannot do that and you know you will be
street collision. You should differentiate two items. Youattacked inevitably, you should act quickly, harshly and
must realize, whether your fight is a result of a usualbe 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 onof 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 inare ready to attack and defense.
the street (someone pushed you or your leg, disturbedIt is not the same thing in the street fight. Opponents
the queue order etc.), you should not use your fightingrarely stand at the certain stances (as in the sport
knowledge and skills to put your opponent out ofgym) 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?sadvantage. Attack here means just the most harsh
say naturally. When this conflict happens, no oneand strong action and not the expressive gestures at
wants to fight actually, but just gets rid of the negativeusual domestic conflict.
energy that was accumulated.I always feel awkward when I am forced to come into
Those who express harshly their negative reaction aresuch conflict. When I see a person standing in front of
not dangerous at all in most cases. He will threatenmyself and offending me, I feel ashamed for this
you, make expressive gestures, grab you with ironconflict that occurred. This person cannot be
fingers but nothing more will happen. This is nothing butdangerous 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. Youmy 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 andtransport, streets etc are not the fight itself, but just an
principles of a hand-to-hand fighting are the same, aeveryday conflict.
sports battle in a gym differs greatly from that oneReal fight happens when your enemy or enemies are
happened in the street. If you are calm when fight in acertain in their superiority over you. For example, it may
sports gym and don?t worry about fatal injury, you willbe numerical advantage, force advantage or
be extremely nervous when come across your realarmament advantage.
enemy in the street. You won?t fight according to ruleSo, I strongly recommend to you: try to avoid street
(as you do in the sports gym), you need to act mostfight at any cost. If you see you are about to be
quickly and cruelly sometimes for your effective selfattacked, 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 roleeager to fight with you, he is sure in his superiority. If he
in the street scuffle. You must prevent your enemy?sis alone and is not too strong or high, but still wants to
attack or take the lead over him. Therefore, I advisefight, it means most likely that he is either armed with
you on no account not to start fighting if you see youthe weapon or instructed of some martial art.
can avoid it.