Speaker 1: Welcome to Stories of Special Forces Operators Podcast. Listen to
Speaker 1: some of the bravest and toughest people on the planet
Speaker 1: share their stories. Sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody. Today, we have a returning guest, one
Speaker 2: of our favorite guests, Dale Comstock. He's got a hell
Speaker 2: of a resume, so let's go ahead and start off
Speaker 2: with that. Dale has six degree black belts in American
Speaker 2: Open Karate and extension fighting with a first of you
Speaker 2: black belt in jiu Jitsu. There's a professional boxer, kickboxer,
Speaker 2: MMA fighter. You might remember he was also in Delta Force.
Speaker 2: That's right. He authored the Third Special Forces Group Combatis
Speaker 2: Manual in nineteen ninety seven, instructed the Delta Force Combatist
Speaker 2: Program and the Third Special Forces Group Combatist Program as
Speaker 2: well also competitive bodybuilder. It's actually too much to actually
Speaker 2: list on here of what he's done. Served ten years
Speaker 2: in the Delta Force as an Assault Explosives, Mechanical, Ballistic
Speaker 2: and Manual breacher, team leader, Third Special Forces Group as
Speaker 2: a Green Beret. You can find more about Dale at
Speaker 2: Dalecomstock dot com Dalecomstock dot com. He's also got a
Speaker 2: great book called American Badass, The True Story of a
Speaker 2: modern day Spartan. You can also find them on Instagram
Speaker 2: and I do it. What did that Instagram account? I
Speaker 2: just lost it, whole lot of folks. It's a official
Speaker 2: American Badass. That's what it was, Official American Badass. You
Speaker 2: can find him over there on Instagram. I definitely check
Speaker 2: him out over there as well. So you can find
Speaker 2: them at dale comstock dot com, Official American Badass on
Speaker 2: Instagram and his book American Badass. So we're going to
Speaker 2: do today. We're going to be talking about martial arts.
Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about self defense philosophy, about
Speaker 2: self defense and martial arts and a whole lot more
Speaker 2: and what he learned in the Delta Force and how
Speaker 2: that contributed to his martial arts training as well. Before
Speaker 2: we get started, you know what to do, Share, subscribe,
Speaker 2: hit that I like, but you know we like it,
Speaker 2: so let's not waste any more time. Welcome back dale Comstock.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, sir, Yeah man, thanks for having me back.
Speaker 2: Thank you well. We loved you the first time and
Speaker 2: I love you the second time. So this one is
Speaker 2: fascinating case. We're gonna twist a little bit the topic
Speaker 2: this time. We're going into more about self defense, martial arts,
Speaker 2: the philosophy of fighting, and the world of martial arts
Speaker 2: as you know, and maybe I'll delve into this later.
Speaker 2: I'll definitely deflop into this letter has changed a lot.
Speaker 2: It's just there's so many fascets to it. We're going
Speaker 2: to cover that in a minute. Well, first thing I
Speaker 2: want to do is learn what motivated you to ever
Speaker 2: get into the martial arts.
Speaker 3: Well, I actually started. My father got me involved in
Speaker 3: martial arts around the age of twelve, I think twelve thirteen, right,
Speaker 3: So I lived in Germany most of my childhood. My
Speaker 3: father was the US Army, my mom was German. And
Speaker 3: my dad came home one day and one of his
Speaker 3: soldiers in this platoon, in fact, his name was Sargeant Evangelista.
Speaker 3: He was a black belt and he taught shota kan
Speaker 3: karate and he he was just teaching karate on his
Speaker 3: own in the evenings, right, And so my Dad's like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, my one of my soldiers was teaching martial arts,
Speaker 3: went on karate, so it's okay, And I got into
Speaker 3: it like that, right, So I ended up training under him,
Speaker 3: got my blue belt and showeda kan karate initially, and
Speaker 3: so that was my start. My dad kind of just
Speaker 3: got me involved in it, and uh and then as
Speaker 3: time went by, you know, I never study any more
Speaker 3: martial arts, but I certainly had a I had a
Speaker 3: pension for fighting. I was bullied a lot growing up.
Speaker 3: I was actually a little run But just because I
Speaker 3: was bullied though, it didn't mean I lost my fights.
Speaker 3: I was actually really good. I became a little scrapper,
Speaker 3: you know. I had my mom and dad's you know,
Speaker 3: tenacity and temper and so I never really I always
Speaker 3: kind of had a passion for it, and I can
Speaker 3: remember cultivating it when I lived in Sacramento. So I
Speaker 3: was in high school, and I was a loner, you know,
Speaker 3: because we changed high school about once a year, four years,
Speaker 3: so right in the middle of the year, we moved
Speaker 3: around a lot, from Germany to Arizona to San Francisco
Speaker 3: to Sacramento, and so as a consequence, and because of
Speaker 3: my personality, I didn't make friends very easily. I was
Speaker 3: very introverted, and so as a loaner and I spent
Speaker 3: a lot of time by myself. And I remember my dad,
Speaker 3: you know, he bought me a bunch of weights for
Speaker 3: the garage and a heavy bag, a punching bag, and
Speaker 3: I would go out there and beat the living dog
Speaker 3: shit crap out of this canvas punching bag. Man. My
Speaker 3: knuckles were always bleeding stuff, but I just had this
Speaker 3: I was like a little pit pool man. I don't
Speaker 3: know why, but maybe I was taking my frustrations out
Speaker 3: on it. But I really enjoyed punching the bag. And
Speaker 3: I loved watching boxing. And one of my mentors at
Speaker 3: the time was Sugar Ray Leonard. I just love the
Speaker 3: way that guy box man, you know, And I always
Speaker 3: had a vision of boxing like this guy. I really did.
Speaker 3: And so then I finally joined the army and went
Speaker 3: into the army. You know, again, I wasn't into boxing,
Speaker 3: but if I had an opportunity to punch a heavy
Speaker 3: bag or punch somebody else, I took advantage of it.
Speaker 3: But I remember, even in the military, there was a
Speaker 3: time when I was in eighty second we used to
Speaker 3: have what's called, uh like division field days, and it
Speaker 3: was just one day where you know, all the units
Speaker 3: would compete, you know, like for example, tuggle worre contest, running, weightlifting, whatever, right,
Speaker 3: and one of the events was boxing and uh so
Speaker 3: I jumped right in on that. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and they basically were tough man contests right
Speaker 3: between the soldiers. Yeah, you know, you know it was
Speaker 3: funny too is back then that was all cool. And
Speaker 3: then when we were all done, you know, you know,
Speaker 3: the division or the battalion storty of major bring out
Speaker 3: kegs of beer and we'd all get drunk drinking beer
Speaker 3: in afternute. You know. That was there was a time
Speaker 3: back in the in the Army when I was in,
Speaker 3: especially in the eighty second Airborne Division, that it was
Speaker 3: okay during lunch to drink three beers. You could literally
Speaker 3: go across the street pre lunch break at the snack
Speaker 3: bar and drink beer, right, and three was a limit.
Speaker 3: And also they had strippers on for brag, right, so
Speaker 3: you could go across the streets the Nco Club, you know,
Speaker 3: and eat your lunch, drink some beers and watch strippers. Man,
Speaker 3: how cool was that? Right? Now? You know, the Armies
Speaker 3: got back there was getting really woke and all this crap,
Speaker 3: you know, and they just made took all the foot
Speaker 3: out of it. But even tough man contest. But then
Speaker 3: eventually what happened was, you know I ended up in
Speaker 3: the in the unit in Delta Force. I really got
Speaker 3: into combatives with a lot of the other operators, you know,
Speaker 3: we started doing a lot of martial arts. We started
Speaker 3: building our own martial arts dojo's and gyms and and uh,
Speaker 3: that's how I really got into it, is because there
Speaker 3: were guys there like me that just loved to train
Speaker 3: and fight, you know, and box and wrestle and grapple,
Speaker 3: and and then that led to, Uh, one day, my
Speaker 3: son who was four and a half at the time,
Speaker 3: and uh, he loved the Ninja Turtles. Man. He was
Speaker 3: all about Ninja turtles and so, you know, and he
Speaker 3: was always out in the front yard doing karate kicks,
Speaker 3: you know, and Ninja turtle stuff. And I looked dot
Speaker 3: him one day I said, Jamie said, I said, you
Speaker 3: like karate. He goes, yeah, yea. I said, you want
Speaker 3: to learn how to do karate like Ninja Turtles. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I said, okay, And so I ended up taking them.
Speaker 3: The first place I took him was to the y
Speaker 3: mc HS and they had they had a taekwondo instructor
Speaker 3: there and we show up and this guy and so
Speaker 3: basically all the parents dropped their kids off and they
Speaker 3: went shopping and it was it was a daycare for them.
Speaker 3: So this poor guy's running around trying to keep all
Speaker 3: the everybody in what There was no training going on.
Speaker 3: It was just him trying to manage a bunch of
Speaker 3: wild kids till their parents came back. So I kind
Speaker 3: of frustrated with that, and I called another friend of mine.
Speaker 3: I said, hey, I said part man, I said, you know,
Speaker 3: I told him, iut Glemma goes, you need to call
Speaker 3: this guy, Jim Smoky West and who is a former
Speaker 3: Green Beret. This guy is a notorious fighter. U huh
Speaker 3: had a hell of a reputation in the army and uh,
Speaker 3: the guys are freaking amazing, man. So I call him.
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, I'm running class right now. Just come
Speaker 3: on over. So I bring my son over there, and
Speaker 3: uh we walk in. There's all these kids about his
Speaker 3: age out there fighting right. They got these big, like
Speaker 3: woofleball bats with foam on and beating the shit out
Speaker 3: of each other. And he looks at my son, go
Speaker 3: out there and have some fun. Grab one's bats. So
Speaker 3: he goes out there and they're beating the hell out
Speaker 3: of each other. No, and my kids smile. He's having
Speaker 3: a good time, you know. And and uh and we
Speaker 3: got to talking and I said, what do you think, James?
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, yeah, I like that. I like this,
Speaker 3: you know, he like four and a half man. And
Speaker 3: uh and so I said, well, we're in man, I said,
Speaker 3: I said, in fact, since we're at it, and I'm
Speaker 3: bringing my kid, gonna bring my kid to train with you.
Speaker 3: I said, I'm gonna go ahead train with him, you know,
Speaker 3: while we both just make a father son thing, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's that started my next journey in martial arts
Speaker 3: with Jim Smoky West. You can google guy on the
Speaker 3: internet fightfast dot com. The guy's amazing man, scary fighter, Man,
Speaker 3: scary fighter. H I mean, I can tell you a
Speaker 3: tons of stories about this guy getting his nose cut
Speaker 3: off and bar fights with bombles. Yeah he was. I mean,
Speaker 3: he was a wreck, but he never lost a fight
Speaker 3: due he was. You don't want to fight this guy anyway.
Speaker 3: I ended up training for him for years. I was
Speaker 3: only one of two black belts that he trained as
Speaker 3: fighters and that actually earned black belts through him, because
Speaker 3: in order to get a black belt through his system,
Speaker 3: you literally had to fight for it. Like for real.
Speaker 3: I mean we would literally go to other dojo's, close
Speaker 3: the doors, and it was a it was a street fight, okay,
Speaker 3: and no no point system. It was your skills against
Speaker 3: this guy's skill. Let's see what you got. You want
Speaker 3: to earn that belt, earn it, you know. And not
Speaker 3: only did I earn my belt that way, but so
Speaker 3: did my kids. Nothing like watching your you know, your
Speaker 3: seven year old kid out there, you know, fight with
Speaker 3: another kid to get his black belt. I mean like
Speaker 3: getting it on. It's like street fight. Your daughter, same
Speaker 3: thing out there fighting you know, another black belt to
Speaker 3: get a brown belt like I am. But we earned
Speaker 3: the belts, right. It wasn't just you know, going through
Speaker 3: codders and forums and looking pretty. This was we we
Speaker 3: We earned it, man, through blood, sweat and tears. And
Speaker 3: so it was actually through gim that I earned, you know,
Speaker 3: start earning my black belts. My son earned his black belt.
Speaker 3: In fact, my son got his black belt by the
Speaker 3: age of seven, started four and a half. Yeah. We
Speaker 3: were dedicated, man. We went several times a week. We trained, trained, trained,
Speaker 3: you know. And when I started my son, I said, listen, man,
Speaker 3: I said, here's the deal. I said, if you tell
Speaker 3: me you want to do this, and we start. I said,
Speaker 3: here's the rule. I said the rules. You can't quit
Speaker 3: until you get your black belt.
Speaker 2: Sope, we're breaking up a little bit. So you were
Speaker 2: talking about you made the rule, he had to get
Speaker 2: a black belt. He couldn't stop to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was you know, so what I require with commitment, right,
Speaker 3: and again that's all the life lesson for him as
Speaker 3: well as like, man, you know, you know, not only
Speaker 3: are going to get your you have to be committed
Speaker 3: to get your black belt, but really you have to
Speaker 3: be committed anything you do in life, you know. And
Speaker 3: so that's the pall with most people. They start something
Speaker 3: and they don't they can't finish it, and then they
Speaker 3: wonder why, you know, their life is a dismal failure,
Speaker 3: you know, they live a life and fulfilled. It's because
Speaker 3: you're not committed. And uh and I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 3: a listen, I'm you know, say what you will. But
Speaker 3: my kids have been very successful because of that philosophy.
Speaker 3: It's like, are you sure you want to do this, Yes,
Speaker 3: you're committed. Yes, here's the rule, and then off we go,
Speaker 3: and we're not going to redig on that, right, So
Speaker 3: you're going to finish it, and that's all to do it.
Speaker 3: And so if you want to get out of this,
Speaker 3: you better earn your black belts fast, you kid, the
Speaker 3: faster you're your black belt, the faster you get out
Speaker 3: of it. Right. But my kid actually enjoyed it, you know,
Speaker 3: and uh, and it really became a way of life almost.
Speaker 3: You know, he knew that we were training every day
Speaker 3: or every couple of days or every three days, and
Speaker 3: it is what it is. And you're gonna go there
Speaker 3: and you're gonna put out, you're gonna perform and uh,
Speaker 3: and you're gonna do the best you can. So that's
Speaker 3: kind of how I got into got back into in
Speaker 3: the martial arts was because of my son getting him involved.
Speaker 3: And then my daughter one day like, Dad, can I
Speaker 3: do it? And I told her it's the same story.
Speaker 3: I said, you start, you finished, right, And so you know,
Speaker 3: I got my whole family engaged, and uh, it became
Speaker 3: a family affair and so I you know, for me,
Speaker 3: it was not just enough to go to training every
Speaker 3: day and meet all the training task and requirements and
Speaker 3: get my belts and then my certificate. I'm the guy
Speaker 3: that wants to one, apply what I learned and make
Speaker 3: sure it works show me. Two. I'm always going trying
Speaker 3: to get to the next level. And for me, the
Speaker 3: next level was sort of getting in street fights and
Speaker 3: being a bar braller was getting in a ring and
Speaker 3: actually fighting all aspects. So I started kickboxing. I started,
Speaker 3: I started getting a tough man contest. I won the
Speaker 3: Gory Limit, a tough Man Championship. I wanted a bunch
Speaker 3: of tough man contests. Then I started getting into m
Speaker 3: m A. Actually I fought the first valley Tudo match
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety six in Richmond, Virginia. Is a street fight,
Speaker 3: three five minute rounds, no rules, just fucking do things,
Speaker 3: do stuff entertainment. And I came out of that night
Speaker 3: with two broken hands. The other guy came out of
Speaker 3: neck brace. Uh. We beat the hell out of each other.
Speaker 3: But that's kind of what you know. That's the level
Speaker 3: I wanted to get to. I wanted. I wanted to
Speaker 3: not only train, but I wanted to test my skills
Speaker 3: and be confident that what I know is gonna work
Speaker 3: when the chips are down right. So I've probably had
Speaker 3: in my lifetime at least a couple of hundred fights,
Speaker 3: street fights, you know, a couple hundred since I can remember,
Speaker 3: you know. And uh, Now I don't fight as much.
Speaker 3: I don't have to because honestly, I feel like I'm
Speaker 3: so well trained that I when I walk in anywhere,
Speaker 3: I'm so confident in myself and my skills that I
Speaker 3: think people almost can sense the energy. And uh and
Speaker 3: nobody nobody harasses me, nobody bothers me. And uh now,
Speaker 3: at least on this part of the world. I'm in
Speaker 3: Bali right now. For the audience that's listening, I live
Speaker 3: in Bali. I also live in Florida. I also have
Speaker 3: a home in uh in Manila, so I kind of
Speaker 3: travel and live out with suitcase. But uh, what's interesting
Speaker 3: is on this side of the world, in the East,
Speaker 3: here people are not as They're not dickheads like in
Speaker 3: the US. Man I go to US, I go to
Speaker 3: a bar with my wife, it's like everybody wants to
Speaker 3: start a fight with me, you know, and they want
Speaker 3: to disrespect me and chase my wife. And so I gotta,
Speaker 3: you know, I gotta, I gotta put people in check,
Speaker 3: but not so much here. But anyways, my point I'm
Speaker 3: trying to make is I don't really have to fight
Speaker 3: as much anymore, and I choose not to because I'm
Speaker 3: honestly afraid I'm gonna kill somebody. I hate to punch
Speaker 3: a guy, knock him out and he falls and hits
Speaker 3: his head on a barstool or on the ground, he's dead, right,
Speaker 3: It's like, oh shit, you know, I've seen it happen,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to go down that road. I
Speaker 3: got too much to lose. So my martial arts I
Speaker 3: use in a defensive capacity only if I only if
Speaker 3: I need to, and I'll just use just enough force
Speaker 3: graduated response to call the situation and be able to
Speaker 3: walk away because I'm really that's my biggest fears. I'm
Speaker 3: going to hurt somebody, really, and not even intentionally accidentally,
Speaker 3: you know, but intentionally I can do it. I have
Speaker 3: done it. But there's nothing there's nothing greater than having
Speaker 3: that kind of confidence in your skill set, your martial
Speaker 3: arts that you can go anywhere. And I have that,
Speaker 3: And I don't want to use the word fear fearless. Okay,
Speaker 3: there's a big difference between fearlessness and courage and confidence. Right,
Speaker 3: So the courageous guy acts in spite of his fear. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's a hero. He's courageous, you know, in spite of
Speaker 3: his fear. Fear, he did it anyways. A fearless guy
Speaker 3: is too done to recognize when he's in trouble and
Speaker 3: does it anyways. Right. So, you know, we were all
Speaker 3: fearless kids. When we're a teenager who were jumping off
Speaker 3: the rooms of houses doing dumb ship you're not realizing,
Speaker 3: you know, what could have happened to us, right, and
Speaker 3: we're here to talk about today. Uh. I'm a confident guy,
Speaker 3: you know, in that I don't have to be courageous.
Speaker 3: I don't have to overcome a fear to fight people.
Speaker 3: I'm not like a crazy lunatic that fights fearlessly, you know,
Speaker 3: because that guy is, you know, danger to himself. I'm
Speaker 3: a confident guy. I'm so confident in my skill sets
Speaker 3: that you know, and I and I project that that uh,
Speaker 3: that confidence that people usually give me way and even
Speaker 3: if they don't, I don't lose my ship, I don't
Speaker 3: lose my mind. I don't I don't I don't go
Speaker 3: berserker on anybody. I'm very methodlo uh, methodical calculating fighter,
Speaker 3: and and I'm very efficient and very fast, and again,
Speaker 3: it's not because I'm superhuman. It's because I was dedicated
Speaker 3: to the training. I learned my craft. I vetted it,
Speaker 3: you know, I tested it. And by the way, you know,
Speaker 3: just because I went through a one A system doesn't
Speaker 3: mean I bought into the entire system. What I do
Speaker 3: is I'm an eclectic martial artists. Right, what works work?
Speaker 3: You know, If this works, I'm gonna throw this into
Speaker 3: my toolbox and it becomes a part of the system.
Speaker 3: If this is too bullshit, then I'm not using this, right,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to get hurt using something that looks
Speaker 3: good in the dojo but really doesn't work in a
Speaker 3: street fight. So in that regard, I'm an eclectic fighter.
Speaker 3: But I'm very good at my Like I said, my craft,
Speaker 3: and I've honed it over the years. I've been studying
Speaker 3: martial arts since i was a teenager. I'm still studying
Speaker 3: to this day. We're never really an expert, even though
Speaker 3: I may hold several black belts, you know, I'm always learning,
Speaker 3: and there's always a guy out there. There's bigger, bad,
Speaker 3: or faster than me, you know, And I'm getting up
Speaker 3: in age. So not that that's a because I will
Speaker 3: scrap with anybody at the age of sixty, and I
Speaker 3: know I can. I'll beat down most men that are
Speaker 3: half my age easily all day long. But uh, I
Speaker 3: know it's possible, so I avoid that. I've got a
Speaker 3: beautiful wife, kids, you know, and beautiful wife, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to jeopardize that by you know, I don't
Speaker 3: have to prove anything anymore. I really don't. So but
Speaker 3: it's you know, for anybody who's listening out there and
Speaker 3: you and you have kids, it's probably one of the
Speaker 3: best things. You know. It doesn't make it in the bullies,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, the people you know, don't abuse
Speaker 3: your skill set to go out there and beat up
Speaker 3: other kids on the playground. Let me tell you, man,
Speaker 3: it's great confidence builder for your children. It does teach
Speaker 3: them self discipline, It teaches them a lot of things,
Speaker 3: you know. And uh and when they when they're good
Speaker 3: enough that they had that confidence that I have, they
Speaker 3: walk through this world just you know, without fear, man,
Speaker 3: And uh, that's a great thing. You know. It's a
Speaker 3: great thing, you know, to have to raise a lion
Speaker 3: rather than raise a sheep.
Speaker 2: You're answering that. Half my questions all righty. They always
Speaker 2: had that ability.
Speaker 3: Then I like to talk, Manny, I'm the I always
Speaker 3: tell my podcast I was gonna listen. I'm the easiest
Speaker 3: guy you'll ever interview. All you got to do is
Speaker 3: introduce me. Just get up and lead. Go shop it
Speaker 3: for about an hour, hour and a half, get some coffee.
Speaker 3: I got this, and then you come on back and
Speaker 3: close it out. We're done.
Speaker 2: It's like I gave you a list of questions and
Speaker 2: just answered them all. But you make great points because
Speaker 2: you know, I was reading studies. I'm academic at heart here.
Speaker 2: But it was interesting because people misunderstand that because what
Speaker 2: I've read so far, anybody who does the traditional arts,
Speaker 2: whether it be karate, kung fu, jiu jitsu, the children
Speaker 2: actually tend to be better. They tend to be more respectful,
Speaker 2: they tend to be more disciplined, and if the instructors
Speaker 2: are teaching, that definitely improves it. The ones that are
Speaker 2: more problematic that so far that they found were MMA
Speaker 2: studios where they trained them to fight in the UFC
Speaker 2: or things of that nature. That did some of them
Speaker 2: ended up being more aggressive because of the that factor.
Speaker 2: But so that was kind of interesting. That's kind of
Speaker 2: what I wanted to talk to you, because actually, just
Speaker 2: two weeks ago somebody had punched somebody in a streets right,
Speaker 2: and he died and it wasn't even a martial artist.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing on MMA, right, So I always
Speaker 3: tell everybody, my students said, man, you can win most
Speaker 3: of your fights with a one two punch. If you
Speaker 3: can master a one two punch straight punches, you can
Speaker 3: win a lot of fights with that. Look, you cock
Speaker 3: a guy with one punch, you know, you can knock
Speaker 3: him out, you know, or put him on queer street
Speaker 3: with one punch, you know, and you get it all
Speaker 3: over with. Right. So I always emphasize that in factors
Speaker 3: I have a saying, advanced techniques are the basics master
Speaker 3: or the basics A basic one two punch right, A
Speaker 3: basic A basic base in your footwork, keep your balance
Speaker 3: and foot movement right, be able to be mobile, don't
Speaker 3: be a sitting target, and be able to shoot back
Speaker 3: with that one two punch, and you know, and most
Speaker 3: fights will be over in a couple of seconds. And
Speaker 3: so everything health like MMA is insurance. Okay, if I
Speaker 3: go to ground, you know the only reason I need
Speaker 3: to know, you know, ground scrapping grapping skills. So I
Speaker 3: get back on my feet and engage a runaway. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you why MMA is so sexy. First of all,
Speaker 3: it's got limitations in a real fight. Okay, if we're
Speaker 3: rolling around the street, fight Okay, there's no rule book
Speaker 3: that says I can't bite your ear off. Okay, poke
Speaker 3: your eye balls out, grab you buy your balls. Right,
Speaker 3: There's no rule says I can't do There's no rule
Speaker 3: says I can't pull out I e my spider colt
Speaker 3: out of my pocket, my pocket folder, and stab you
Speaker 3: in the side. Okay, therein is. And there's no rule
Speaker 3: that says only two guys can fight on the ground
Speaker 3: at one time. There's no rule says my friends can't
Speaker 3: jump and help you kick your head off like a football. Right,
Speaker 3: So going to ground okay, it doesn't prove shit, and
Speaker 3: it's it can be a real liability. Okay, you go
Speaker 3: ground with me. If I don't beat you grappling, I'm
Speaker 3: probably gonna beat you with a knife to your freaking kidney.
Speaker 3: You know. I mean that's reality. Okay, because I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna lose a fight. Because losing a fight that has
Speaker 3: bigger implications. You could end up getting killed, okay, just
Speaker 3: in a standard in a regular street fight, and I
Speaker 3: can share a story about that later on something happened
Speaker 3: to me. But so I look at grappling as nothing
Speaker 3: more than insurance to get to my feet and either
Speaker 3: run or finish the fight on my feet. Right. What
Speaker 3: I don't want to do is complete the fight on
Speaker 3: the ground if I can help it. MMA has has
Speaker 3: lulled to me into people into the idea that you know,
Speaker 3: grapplings words at right, and uh, you know, and here's
Speaker 3: the other thing. I gotta be careful how I couch it.
Speaker 3: So I don't sound like I'm racist, because I'm not,
Speaker 3: you know, physiologically. You know, some cultures, some races are
Speaker 3: better at some arts than others, right, like boxing, for example,
Speaker 3: versus martial arts, versusping, things like that. A lot of
Speaker 3: guys like the wrestle, right because wrestling doesn't take a
Speaker 3: lot of hand eye coordination, right, It just takes for
Speaker 3: the most part, it just takes strength, right, and agility
Speaker 3: and balance and and honestly, I feel like grappling it's easy.
Speaker 3: It requires gross motor skills, whereas boxing, kickboxing targeted type
Speaker 3: strikes require find motor skills and compound more skills. Right,
Speaker 3: So what does that mean, find compound more skill, hand
Speaker 3: an eye coordination, be able to target precisely your opponent
Speaker 3: with punches, strikes, things like that, right, Whereas grappling, it's
Speaker 3: just a gross motor skill is basically shoulders, you know,
Speaker 3: chest back, but legs right, moving a person around. So
Speaker 3: most people are lazy. They don't want to learn to
Speaker 3: find motor skills, Okay, they want to go to gross
Speaker 3: motor skills, which is easy. So grappling is easy for me.
Speaker 3: It's really easy to learn. It's very easy to learn
Speaker 3: grappling techniques, right, it doesn't take much, but boxing and
Speaker 3: kickboxing takes a lot more one. It takes endurance takes, stamina,
Speaker 3: takes behindhand and eye coordination. And honestly, most people don't
Speaker 3: like getting punched in the face, right, so they avoid
Speaker 3: it and uh, you know and uh and so it's
Speaker 3: easier to fight on the ground because you're probably not
Speaker 3: gonna get as hurt as bad so and I'm not
Speaker 3: knocking n m A. Look, I'm an MMA fighter, but
Speaker 3: I told you my reason is for insurance purposes only
Speaker 3: you know, I've trained with the Gracie Brothers. I've got
Speaker 3: a first sgree black belt, you know in jiu jitsu.
Speaker 3: I'm not opposed to grappling. I did fight, you know,
Speaker 3: a lot of mma fights in my lifetime. But you know,
Speaker 3: I'm being a realist, and uh, the real reality is
Speaker 3: you don't want to fight on the ground. If you can,
Speaker 3: it's like getting a knife fight. You don't. The first
Speaker 3: rule of knife fighting is don't get a knife fight. Okay,
Speaker 3: never get in a knife fight. Even if you've got
Speaker 3: a knife, don't get a knife fight. Everybody gets stabbed
Speaker 3: in a knife fight, and it just takes one stab,
Speaker 3: one puncture the injured life, you know. So my rule
Speaker 3: is always run away. You know. Even if I have
Speaker 3: a gun, I'm gonna create distancing and and then I've
Speaker 3: created this and I still can't shoot you because now
Speaker 3: you know, it's this whole graduated response escalation of force,
Speaker 3: you know, and disparity and force. You know, there's all
Speaker 3: these other legal issues that I would have to deal with.
Speaker 3: You're just better off running away with your gun, you know,
Speaker 3: and and coming back later on and dealing with it
Speaker 3: however you want to deal with it. But going back
Speaker 3: to the m m A. Yeah. So also the thing
Speaker 3: with m m A is it doesn't require the same
Speaker 3: kind of discipline for example, in the Chinese or Japanese
Speaker 3: martial arts. Right, there's there's there. It's a discipline sport.
Speaker 3: You go into the dojo, what do you do? Pay
Speaker 3: respect to the sense say, you know, the seafood, to
Speaker 3: the to the UH, to the dojo, to the other students.
Speaker 3: You know, there's there's protocols and why because it's not
Speaker 3: about just physical it's also about you know, mental discipline
Speaker 3: and and a lot of times that's lacking at m
Speaker 3: m A because MMA is more like a brawler sport.
Speaker 3: Why it's been glorified with you know, the UFC and
Speaker 3: and uh. You know, so there's there's that that aspect
Speaker 3: of it is lacking. And look, I used to fight
Speaker 3: club fights when we were when I lived in Fayvbrielle Man.
Speaker 3: We had what's called Thursday and night fights and it
Speaker 3: was at a it was at a bar, big ass bar,
Speaker 3: and uh they set up with a ring in there
Speaker 3: and essentially anybody could come in there and go, Hey,
Speaker 3: I want to fight that guy. It could be any guy,
Speaker 3: it could be or it could be me and the
Speaker 3: other fighters. You know, it could be a the two
Speaker 3: guys to have a spat across the bar about someone
Speaker 3: was like, all right, you guys, there you go, here's
Speaker 3: the ring, here's the gloves. Freaking work it out right
Speaker 3: and so and and you could do anything you want.
Speaker 3: You could box, kickbox, wrestle, grapple, jiu jitsu, write, whatever
Speaker 3: both parties agreed on. And I used to go in
Speaker 3: there and and I would just I would fight these
Speaker 3: I'll just fight these guys off the street, all these
Speaker 3: tough guys, you know. And I'd be like, Okay, what
Speaker 3: do you want to do. Whatever you want to do,
Speaker 3: I'll do it, you know. And then I would go
Speaker 3: in there, and my coach would always tell me, go, hey,
Speaker 3: he goes, you know, get to get a work out
Speaker 3: in and get some training out of there. Drag him
Speaker 3: out for a few rounds, you know, you get a
Speaker 3: work out in. So and that's what I did. You know,
Speaker 3: I'd take on these guys, these these you know, these
Speaker 3: tough guys, drunkards and assholes, and go out there and
Speaker 3: work out on them, you know, and then put them asleep.
Speaker 3: You'll put them to bed after that. So what I've
Speaker 3: learned is you know, winning a fight isn't about how
Speaker 3: bad you are, how tough you are, sometimes not even
Speaker 3: about how skilled you are. It's about how confident you
Speaker 3: are and how and how relaxed you are. Right, the
Speaker 3: more relaxed you are, because because I said earlier, I
Speaker 3: mentioned compound motor skills and find motor skills right, and
Speaker 3: gros smart skills. So find motor skills is anything below
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty beats per minute. Okay. So for example,
Speaker 3: when we're facing stress, an adversary, a threat, an animal,
Speaker 3: something's going to kill us or hurt us, what happens
Speaker 3: fight or flight syndem sets in? Okay, and all these
Speaker 3: things and tactic cardi our heart rate goes up. Why
Speaker 3: because you're trying to circulate blood and oxygen, epeneforn or epineffrin, cortisol.
Speaker 3: Our pupils dilate. You know, we we get basically tunnel vision,
Speaker 3: We lose our depth perception, we're trying to focus on
Speaker 3: immediate threat. All these things happen to us physiologically, But
Speaker 3: the thing that's most as the most impact on our
Speaker 3: performance is our heart rate. When it goes over one
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty beats per minute. We start losing fine
Speaker 3: motor skills, we start losing dexterity, so i e. You
Speaker 3: get if you get in a gunfight and you're in
Speaker 3: fear for your life, like most shootouts, guys are firing
Speaker 3: rounds off left and right and they're not hit anything
Speaker 3: because what they're doing is they're using gross motor skills,
Speaker 3: which is over one hundred and twenty over one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty beats per minute. And what that forces them
Speaker 3: to do. Rather than finessing the trigger and pressing the trigger,
Speaker 3: they're scrunching the trigger. They're crunching it and grabbing and
Speaker 3: squozing really hard, which causes them the index the weapon
Speaker 3: left and right or pull it up and down, so
Speaker 3: they're slinging bullets everywhere. Right. We were not design evolution
Speaker 3: from an evolutionary standpoint to have fine motor skills because
Speaker 3: we didn't need to find motor skills the chuck is
Speaker 3: speared at a saber too tiger, or crushed ahead of
Speaker 3: a t rex with a with a big giant rock,
Speaker 3: or to run and climb a tree. We just needed
Speaker 3: gross motor skills. That's it. That's all we needed, right,
Speaker 3: we need to be able to even push and climb. Right,
Speaker 3: we didn't need help know how to pull a trigger
Speaker 3: back then, but now we live in a modern world
Speaker 3: where we press the trigger on a weapon. You know,
Speaker 3: our fighting skills have become more refined, i e. Boxing
Speaker 3: and kickboxing, things like that. So you know, now we're
Speaker 3: what we're doing is we're actually we're going against our nature. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to fight or flight, and you're gonna go
Speaker 3: into fight or flight. I don't care how good you are,
Speaker 3: You're gonna go into fight or flight. It's a question
Speaker 3: of while you're in fight or flight, how far in
Speaker 3: do you go? You know your heart rate now you're
Speaker 3: gonna let it go over one hundred and twenty b sprints.
Speaker 3: This is the difference between a professional and amateur fight. Right.
Speaker 3: The amateur goes out there and swings like a windmill
Speaker 3: because he's literally fighting for his life. Now, you know,
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to get knocked out, He doesn't want
Speaker 3: to get hurt. You know, he looked at the other
Speaker 3: guy going, ohk shit, he looks kind of scary. I
Speaker 3: gotta you know, the guy's a problem, and you can
Speaker 3: take care of this problem as fast as I can.
Speaker 3: Little needs to know the other guy's looking at him
Speaker 3: thinking the same thing. So it makes for an entertaining fight. However,
Speaker 3: as a professional, as you become more seasoned and more experienced,
Speaker 3: you're actually much calmer when you go in the ring.
Speaker 3: Your heart rate's not over one hundred and twenty beats
Speaker 3: per minute. You're operating, you know, very calm today. You're moving,
Speaker 3: of course you're moving, you know. In fact, the less
Speaker 3: you can move without getting without being a sitting duck,
Speaker 3: the more efficient you can be, the better you'll fare
Speaker 3: up and fair in the fight. Because now you still
Speaker 3: have those hand coordination. You're controlling the situation. It's not
Speaker 3: controlling you. You're imposing your will on the other guy.
Speaker 3: He's not imposing. You're in control of the ring, right,
Speaker 3: and that requires you to have a larger circle of awareness,
Speaker 3: no depth perception issues, no tunnel vision. Right, there's these
Speaker 3: physiological things that you need to be a control of
Speaker 3: the worst thing you can do is go into a fight,
Speaker 3: like for a ring fight, for example, in fight or
Speaker 3: fight mode, right, because now what's happening is you're already
Speaker 3: over hunt twenty pets for a minute. Tunnel vision that
Speaker 3: perception all this stuff's going on, you're not going to
Speaker 3: be as efficient. And it takes about twenty to sixty
Speaker 3: minutes to get back into pre arousal pre abrousal mode,
Speaker 3: right in other words, to get out of that fight
Speaker 3: or fight, to get your heart rate down, cortisol is expended.
Speaker 3: Nor if it takes about twenty minutes to an hour
Speaker 3: at least to get back to your pre arousal condition.
Speaker 3: And so if you go into a fight like that,
Speaker 3: you know you're already way behind a power curve. You've
Speaker 3: actually encumbered yourself, okay, with your physiology and your psychology.
Speaker 3: You let you let your psychology alter your physiology, which
Speaker 3: is now becoming an impediment to win in the fight
Speaker 3: now it has if we were trying to fight to kill,
Speaker 3: we're trying to fight to run, and I was throwing
Speaker 3: a spear or rock, that's a different issue. But what
Speaker 3: we're talking about now is going and engaging in combatings
Speaker 3: and martial arts, either pugure, pugilism, punching, hand eye coordination,
Speaker 3: kicking and or graphic or m m A. You know
Speaker 3: that takes that takes a plan, that takes it takes
Speaker 3: form and form facilitates function right better. That's why we
Speaker 3: practice forms and cordas right forms and cotters. What it
Speaker 3: does is it refines the functionality of the functional ability
Speaker 3: of our striking and movements and things like. That's why
Speaker 3: we do we're developing our nervous system. We're too differ
Speaker 3: for performance. All that is altered by fight or flight,
Speaker 3: and then the other thing too that that will alter it.
Speaker 3: And this is what I love is when it's anger, right,
Speaker 3: the angry guy, he's gonna lose. If you're mad at me,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna beat the love and dog out of you,
Speaker 3: and there ain't nothing you gonna do about it, because
Speaker 3: what happens is when you're angry is the fight or
Speaker 3: flight reflects right boom. So a lot of times when
Speaker 3: I get fight, I probably shouldn't tell my secret here.
Speaker 3: But if I think it's gonna go to blows, I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna wait for you to throw the first punch
Speaker 3: because that could be the last punch for the rest
Speaker 3: of my life. You know, it could be over right there.
Speaker 3: So I'm never gonna let you hit me first. But
Speaker 3: if I think it's gonna go there, I'm striking first.
Speaker 3: And usually what I do. And I don't know why
Speaker 3: I do this, but I've always done this. I will
Speaker 3: slap the crap out of you. I will slap you
Speaker 3: so hard. And what that, what I have found happens
Speaker 3: is as soon as I do that, especially if it's
Speaker 3: a bigger guy, and if I don't think I could
Speaker 3: take him out with one punch, if I can slap
Speaker 3: you several ways happen once. It's a loud slap, makes
Speaker 3: a lot of noise, and it's very disconcerting for my adversary,
Speaker 3: especially if other people are watching and listening and laughing.
Speaker 3: But holy shad, you know, okay that really that gets
Speaker 3: into people's head too. The slapping itself can actually have
Speaker 3: a stunning effe back right, It kind of shakes a
Speaker 3: guy up, It makes eyze water, it stings, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3: You just slap them, like slapping a woman, you know,
Speaker 3: a woman just gets or some woman slapping you. Psychologically,
Speaker 3: I'm right inside the guy's head right now. And what
Speaker 3: happens next is they always go into a rage. They
Speaker 3: just lose their mind and I'm going to kill you.
Speaker 3: And I'm like you right where I want you. I
Speaker 3: got you out of control. You're no longer in control yourself.
Speaker 3: I'm imposing my will. I'm running the situation you're not.
Speaker 3: And this is where I win because I'm a methodical fighter.
Speaker 3: I'm a good counter fighter, and I'm calculated. And so
Speaker 3: when you lose your mind mind and you come at me,
Speaker 3: swing those white punches or trying to whatever, I'm just
Speaker 3: taking nice, clean, calculated shots, you know. And I'm I'm
Speaker 3: operating one hundred twenty pieces permitted a lower hand night coordinator.
Speaker 3: I'm taking some clean sniper shots that you're coming at
Speaker 3: me with freaking artillery and it ain't hitting, but my
Speaker 3: sniper shots taking you out. Man. That's how I work it.
Speaker 3: And uh, it's because of the psychology. It's really psychology.
Speaker 3: And so going back to initially we're talking about the kid.
Speaker 3: You know, this is what martial arts teaches kids is
Speaker 3: how to be in control of your situation and not
Speaker 3: letting the situation control you, not letting other people control you.
Speaker 3: When you're good enough and you're confident enough in your
Speaker 3: experience enough that you can manage a situation like that,
Speaker 3: you're winning, and then that that rolls into a whole
Speaker 3: other area, you know, family. For example, Look, I'm a
Speaker 3: You know, I'm a guy. I'm a man. Okay, Look
Speaker 3: I'm not You call me a toxic mail if you want.
Speaker 3: There's no such thing. You know, who calls you toxic males,
Speaker 3: caustic women, and costic baby mails? Right, So they're costing
Speaker 3: calling me toxic whatever. I'm not here to please them.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm a man that believes that men
Speaker 3: should be men. Boy should be men. We should raise
Speaker 3: and be rough, tough. We should teach him to be men.
Speaker 3: And it's a man's duty. Okay. If he's married and
Speaker 3: has children, to protect his family, you should learn some
Speaker 3: kind of skills to protect him. If you don't. If
Speaker 3: you don't, I think you're negligent. Right, because we live
Speaker 3: in a really rogue and feral wall. Think about this.
Speaker 3: I mean it's a dangerous place out there now, I
Speaker 3: mean especially the United States. Holy smokes man. You know
Speaker 3: I don't go anywhere in the United States without a
Speaker 3: firearm on me, just because I don't want to get
Speaker 3: caught short anywhere. Goh sholl which I have my gun,
Speaker 3: but I don't have it and somebody gets hurt. But
Speaker 3: you know, I feel like as a as a husband
Speaker 3: and as a father, I need to protect my family.
Speaker 3: Even if I don't have a firearm, I need to
Speaker 3: at least be able to with my empty hands, be
Speaker 3: able to at least slow down or neutralize a threat
Speaker 3: so that they can at least get off the ax,
Speaker 3: so to speak. So it's for me. It's an imperative.
Speaker 3: It's an imperative as a man to learn some kind
Speaker 3: of skill. Okay, and listen, you know I love it
Speaker 3: when you know you should just turn the other cheek
Speaker 3: and walk away. Why so I can get kicked in
Speaker 3: the ass when I walk away. No, you know, get
Speaker 3: hit in the back of the head with a bottle
Speaker 3: when I walk away. No, that sounds good. Young that
Speaker 3: ship like that towards Okay, whimpy people, they say that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. Walk away, just turn around, walk away.
Speaker 3: I will tell you to walk away. When you're at
Speaker 3: a skill level where you can really hurt somebody like me.
Speaker 3: I'll walk away because I don't want to kill you.
Speaker 3: Not because I'm afraid, but I know that if you
Speaker 3: press the issue and you come to me with my family,
Speaker 3: I can I'll stop you. I will stop you, man.
Speaker 3: But it's an imperative, and and so it's a it's
Speaker 3: a dangerous world out there, is why I'm trying to
Speaker 3: say we need to It's, you know, everybody needs to
Speaker 3: know how to defend themselves, even women. Okay, you know,
Speaker 3: can women be as good as men fighting? Generally? Generally? No? Okay,
Speaker 3: generally no. I would love this, There's I don't think
Speaker 3: there's any woman on this planet to keep my ass.
Speaker 3: I just don't believe it. I've yet to see anyone
Speaker 3: anyone is capable. That they talk is cheap. All right,
Speaker 3: let's talk about a street fight. There's no rules, you're
Speaker 3: you're probably gonna lose. Most dudes will lose too. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean I can't lose, doesn't mean I haven't lost, but
Speaker 3: very unlikely. So. Mindset's a big part of martial arts training,
Speaker 3: you know, and I think there's a there's a huge
Speaker 3: benefit by teaching your kids martial arts. It's a huge
Speaker 3: benefit by everybody learning some type of martial art. You
Speaker 3: didn't even have to have a black belt, just learn
Speaker 3: some fundamental techniques, you know, like a one to two punch.
Speaker 3: You know, hey, if I hit a guy here and
Speaker 3: I stunned him because I hit a pressure point, you know,
Speaker 3: that might give me a second to break contact and escape.
Speaker 3: You know, Oh yeah, hey an idea poke him in
Speaker 3: the eyeballs, you know, and so he hadn't see it,
Speaker 3: you know, you running away, you know, kick him in
Speaker 3: the balls. But that's so you know that, So yeah,
Speaker 3: kick him. There's no rules in the street fight. Kick
Speaker 3: him in the ball, stab him in the balls, you know,
Speaker 3: when you win, to fight and live another day. And
Speaker 3: too many people they played by these notional rules that
Speaker 3: really don't exist. And then on the other hand, too
Speaker 3: many people are afraid to fight because they're afraid they're
Speaker 3: gonna get hurt or die. And there's another thing too,
Speaker 3: by the way, if you want to be a confident fighter,
Speaker 3: whether it's to the death or to escape or just
Speaker 3: to win, you have to resolve your own death. And
Speaker 3: this is what most people have not done. When I
Speaker 3: say resolve your own death, what that means is this,
Speaker 3: Are you at peace right now with the idea that
Speaker 3: if you get killed, everything's were taken care of, your
Speaker 3: families that were taken care of you know you, Are
Speaker 3: you at peace with what's going to happen to you?
Speaker 3: Are you going to go to heaven or whatever your
Speaker 3: belief system is, Has that already been resolved right in
Speaker 3: your mind. And because the biggest inhibitor for anybody in
Speaker 3: a fight, whether it's life or death or a street fight,
Speaker 3: is they hesitate because they're not they're not prepared to
Speaker 3: check out, they're not prepared to die, and they're not
Speaker 3: prepared for the consequences. I am done it many times, right,
Speaker 3: And this is what makes you a dangerous fighter, is
Speaker 3: when you fight because you're not afraid of what you
Speaker 3: might lose, because you already know you've already detained everything
Speaker 3: you wanted and everything will be taken care of even
Speaker 3: if you're gone. Your life insurance is paid up, your
Speaker 3: family will be taken care of. The only thing that's
Speaker 3: gonna be missing in the world is you, you know,
Speaker 3: and everybody will get along without you, you know, give
Speaker 3: them a couple of days and for some alcohol, and
Speaker 3: where's your memories will disappear? Right, So everybody's good to go.
Speaker 3: Think about that, you know. We don't think about too
Speaker 3: many people very long after they passed away. Every nound
Speaker 3: and then it becomes a fleeting thought. But anyways, the
Speaker 3: world of the story is resolved. Your own death, and
Speaker 3: that will go a long long way to prepare you
Speaker 3: for combat, any kind of combat. And if you don't
Speaker 3: have that. I've seen where guys in life and desk
Speaker 3: situations we're surprised guy was going to kill them, and
Speaker 3: all they could do is please please wait wait wait
Speaker 3: wait wait wait wait wait. They tried negotiating, you know,
Speaker 3: let me negotiate really quick. Don't shoot me, don't kill
Speaker 3: me yet. Of course, the guy that was intent on
Speaker 3: kill him doesn't want to hear. He's just gonna kill it, right,
Speaker 3: And so at that moment in life, you don't need
Speaker 3: to be going wait wait, wait, wait wait, you need
Speaker 3: to be go and bring it, bitch, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: take you out. You need your attitude's got to be different, right.
Speaker 3: You got to be in an offensive role right away,
Speaker 3: not a defensive role. So I'm gonna segue into something else.
Speaker 3: We're freaking. I should have let you answer the question.
Speaker 3: So there's more tenants of okay that should always be applied.
Speaker 3: Now the military, we always talked about the three tenants
Speaker 3: of combat okay, And this actually has its origins from
Speaker 3: the Delta Force. Since then, it's you know, it's become
Speaker 3: a universal if you will, and uh, these are universal
Speaker 3: tenants relating to combat, and that those tenants are first
Speaker 3: of all, first of all is surprised, second one speed
Speaker 3: thered one's balance of action, surprise speed, bounce of action. Right,
Speaker 3: you know, catch the guy off guard when they're not
Speaker 3: ready to do something they weren't prepared for. Right Why
Speaker 3: because you're gonna put them in what's called stretch shot phenomena,
Speaker 3: the deer in your headlights moment and they're trying to
Speaker 3: figure out what to do right while they're in that
Speaker 3: that moment. Okay, that and that is and that actually happens. Okay,
Speaker 3: stretch shot phenomena happens. It's a physiological we set that
Speaker 3: we go through in the face of fight or flight.
Speaker 3: But we want to overwhelm our adversary right away by
Speaker 3: one by surprising him, two doing it faster he can
Speaker 3: do anything, faster he can respond. We want to take
Speaker 3: him out. And three when we do it, we want
Speaker 3: to do it in a manner that, you know, we
Speaker 3: take him out of the fight faster he can even
Speaker 3: get into the fight. Right, So violence of action. I
Speaker 3: actually use a fourth tenant that I create develop myself
Speaker 3: on the fourth one is momentum be a fast moving
Speaker 3: train and keep on rolling over the adversary. Take him
Speaker 3: completely out, okay, and then one should completely neutralize him.
Speaker 3: Then you have the option to walk away or pick
Speaker 3: him up and pat him off and shake his hand
Speaker 3: or whatever you want to do with him. Right. But
Speaker 3: momentum for me is the fourth tenant, and that's an
Speaker 3: important tenant for me. Nobody that I'm aware of teaching
Speaker 3: that unless they got it from me. But those are
Speaker 3: my four tenths of combat, surprise me, violence of action,
Speaker 3: and momentum. Interesting point on the last one, the momentum.
Speaker 3: The idea where I got this idea of the momentum
Speaker 3: was when I was eighty second everyone that was. I
Speaker 3: was an infantry company and uh, I remember my platoons
Speaker 3: started started first Class Wilson, Vietnam veteran. I think he
Speaker 3: was with I think he was with one seventy third Americal.
Speaker 3: I can't remember now the first of the seventh. But
Speaker 3: he looked like uh, he looked like Barnes in the
Speaker 3: movie Platoon, right with scar down his face. He looked
Speaker 3: just like him, talked like him. After I swear to
Speaker 3: go up to saw with Barnes and he was like
Speaker 3: that man, very stowing but he was a warrior and
Speaker 3: he you know, and we were a bunch of young
Speaker 3: infantry guys. And I remember one day in the field,
Speaker 3: because we'd go to the field for like six weeks
Speaker 3: at a time and literally sleep four hours a day,
Speaker 3: you know, and the rest time we were walking carrying rucksacks,
Speaker 3: digging foxholes. All the stuff he saw in the movie Platoon.
Speaker 3: We that's what we were doing. And uh, and we were.
Speaker 3: He was talking to us one day because what we're
Speaker 3: going to do is delivered assault on a on a
Speaker 3: defensive position, on enemy defensive position, which meant we had
Speaker 3: to fire maneuver by squads and teams and uh and
Speaker 3: bound onto the objective and kill everybody on it. And
Speaker 3: he told us that the most important, the most important
Speaker 3: element that a fire maneuver element can never compromise it
Speaker 3: is they cannot lose momentum. They have to continue moving forward.
Speaker 3: So think of the movie now Hamburger Hill, where they're
Speaker 3: fighting up Hamburger Hill and then they got to go
Speaker 3: back down. They're coming back up and going back down right,
Speaker 3: getting repelled up down, up down. This goes on forever,
Speaker 3: and finally the place has just laid barren from all
Speaker 3: explosives and stuff, and you're sliding up and down a
Speaker 3: mud hill trying to get to that enemy they're on
Speaker 3: that dominates the top of the hill. Well, they kept
Speaker 3: losing the momentum, is what happened. They became decisively engaged
Speaker 3: and then had to back back down and retreat right
Speaker 3: and or withdraw. We don't say retreating the military, by
Speaker 3: the way, that's that's hollywood. The term is withdraw. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna tactically withdraw. In other words, we're gonna run,
Speaker 3: like help get the hell off the hex. But don't
Speaker 3: use those word right, send us the wrong message to
Speaker 3: the bad guys. Hey, guys, we're just withdrawn for lunch. Okay,
Speaker 3: we'll be right by say so. But that's actually so,
Speaker 3: that's where I got that. I thought about. That's a momentum.
Speaker 3: I like that, you know, momentum. I've never forgotten that
Speaker 3: lesson from my Portunit Sardy as a young infantryman at
Speaker 3: the age of what twenty nineteen and uh and then
Speaker 3: when I learned about, you know, surprised me violence of action.
Speaker 3: Many many many years later, you know, I finally ended
Speaker 3: up adding momentum momentum to it because I started developing
Speaker 3: my own system of combatings, and so I become a
Speaker 3: student of war, student of whether it's war in a
Speaker 3: microcosm or war in a macrocosm, right, the dynamics of combat,
Speaker 3: you know, sun Zou, I'm son Zu dial and you know.
Speaker 3: And I started looking at these things, and that's how
Speaker 3: I came up with, for example, these four tenants, and
Speaker 3: I added momentum to them because I've taken lessons of
Speaker 3: the past, you know, from my own experiences and others experience,
Speaker 3: and I've and I've merged together and created this philosophy.
Speaker 3: If you will, uh for combat, and so it extends
Speaker 3: into you know, street combat you hand to hand man
Speaker 3: oh man to you know, more dynamic combat, you know,
Speaker 3: with weapons and firearms and you know, you know those
Speaker 3: types of things. So fighting is fighting, but to a
Speaker 3: degree regulated fighting like ring fighting has rules and there's
Speaker 3: no rules in the row wall and uh and therein
Speaker 3: is a problem. You know, you could be a great
Speaker 3: MMA fighter. You bring your ass out here on the
Speaker 3: street and I'll hand it to you because it's a
Speaker 3: different world out here, and I don't care how good
Speaker 3: you are. And if if you meet a guy like me,
Speaker 3: that's put people to bed for the rest of their lives.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm really gonna stick it to you, no
Speaker 3: pun intended, but you know this is not going to
Speaker 3: be an easy fight for you, and you're probably not
Speaker 3: gonna walk away the victor. You're probably gonna get carried
Speaker 3: away on a gurney, you know, the ambulance or to
Speaker 3: the morgue. But it's again, it's his mindset, right, So
Speaker 3: there's a resolution of death and moreover, this will to win,
Speaker 3: because will the means will to live in this world
Speaker 3: that we live in. You cannot go in anymore and
Speaker 3: just go I'm just gonna put the guy in the face.
Speaker 3: We're gonna shake hands. People try to kill you today.
Speaker 3: They pull guns. I'm watched it all time, man, study
Speaker 3: a lot of YouTube, and people just can't fight with
Speaker 3: just their hands and then shake it off with me. Friends,
Speaker 3: they lose a fight to pull the gun out and
Speaker 3: shoot you for losing. Right, it's like crazy, man, it's
Speaker 3: a fair rule. So we have to prepare ourselves for it.
Speaker 3: But then all that, I'll take a deep breaths.
Speaker 2: We're actually out of time. But you answer a lot
Speaker 2: of the questions. By the way, folks more at them
Speaker 2: at Dale comstock dot com and the book is official.
Speaker 2: I mean you can go find them on Instagram Official
Speaker 2: American Badass now Dale Before we wrap up. They can
Speaker 2: find more information about your self defense classes at Dale
Speaker 2: compstock dot com. Is that where they can go for it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you go to Dale compstock dot com, there's
Speaker 3: a I have a tablender there on like examp some
Speaker 3: of my trainings and things like that. It's part of Americana.
Speaker 3: I do provide an online course on martial arts. It's
Speaker 3: it's a ten month bro and it's very extensive. It
Speaker 3: consists of eight modules and upon completion, I'll actually award
Speaker 3: your first degree black belt. And it's not like you're
Speaker 3: doing written tests and things like that. It's performance. It's
Speaker 3: performance oriented, so you'll actually you know, it's live video.
Speaker 3: We go back and forth. I demonstrate it. I'll send
Speaker 3: you video demonstrations of it. You have to demonstrate it
Speaker 3: live on video and or send me recorded videos of
Speaker 3: you executing it. And not only executing it, but I
Speaker 3: need to see you teach it back. I need to understan,
Speaker 3: I need to hear you teach, because when you can teach,
Speaker 3: that means I know you know the top the subject matter, right,
Speaker 3: and that's important. If you can explain it to me
Speaker 3: great detail and demonstrated, then I'm confident you can teach
Speaker 3: to others and you can you can execute it right.
Speaker 3: And so, by the way, being a black belt doesn't
Speaker 3: mean you're an expert. It just means that you're an instructor.
Speaker 3: You're at the teacher level, right, And that's the point
Speaker 3: that being a black belt is you're at a teacher's
Speaker 3: level because there's no experts. Okay, I got six degree
Speaker 3: black belts, and look, I'm still far from an expert.
Speaker 3: I'll never be an expert. All the experts are dead.
Speaker 3: So I do have that program. It's centered more on
Speaker 3: practical combatis. In other words, if you're a law enforcement,
Speaker 3: security or you just want to learn practical pragmatic combaties
Speaker 3: martial arts for you know, you know a street uh
Speaker 3: street fights and things like that, I will you know,
Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna teach you to include things like
Speaker 3: weapon retention, edge weapons. I'm not gonna teach you Filipino,
Speaker 3: you know, knife fighting and things like that. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: teach you practical knife fighting, uh, linear weapons, blunt objects,
Speaker 3: empty hand combat grappling techniques too. Right recover, we're gonna
Speaker 3: talk a lot about pugilism, throwing several types of punches.
Speaker 3: There's at least four h kicks that we're gonna learn
Speaker 3: below the waist, because everybody doesn't have time to become
Speaker 3: a taekwondo expert throw head level kicks all the time.
Speaker 3: It's a ten month program and what I'm gonna teach
Speaker 3: you is how to fight hot now, and it does work.
Speaker 3: I do have students enrolled in it, they've been in
Speaker 3: for a while. It's kind of we kind of work
Speaker 3: at each other's pace. Normally, I program ten months for
Speaker 3: the training. If you're consistent, you can do it in
Speaker 3: ten months or less, and and awards the black. I
Speaker 3: have other trainings they go along the parallel that to
Speaker 3: include things like close quota battle, how to use weapons,
Speaker 3: firearms in buildings, homes, home defense, shooting around vehicles and
Speaker 3: vehicles out of vehicles, to executive protection, to explosives. You
Speaker 3: got to teach explosives online and everybody's like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: teacher explosive. Yeah, well, I'll teach you basically explosives. Right,
Speaker 3: It's nothing you can't glean off the Internet. But what
Speaker 3: I do is I lay out for you in the
Speaker 3: same format that you can follow, and you'll understand how
Speaker 3: explosives we can Actually, the reason I designed that course
Speaker 3: is not because I'm training terrists. Most security managers out
Speaker 3: here don't know anything about explosives, and for example Indonesia,
Speaker 3: they're always searching cars and asking, what are you looking
Speaker 3: for explosives? Well, describe, I mean, what the explosives look like,
Speaker 3: and you know, and I can see that. I can
Speaker 3: see the little you know, the little cloud above their head,
Speaker 3: you know. And what I see is there's like rolls
Speaker 3: in red dynamite with a big alarm clock on it,
Speaker 3: in a coyote. They don't know, right, that's what they're
Speaker 3: looking for. And I go, you know what she explosives
Speaker 3: look like? No? Do you know what liquid slurry looks like? No? Right?
Speaker 3: So I teach that class to educate security managers and
Speaker 3: those that will be are interested in being able to
Speaker 3: identify explosive I don't teach people how to make explosives.
Speaker 3: I teach people how to identify them, how to expose
Speaker 3: these trains work. You know, you know theory if you
Speaker 3: will on explosives. That's kind of what I teach. So
Speaker 3: I had there's a bunch of modules on there, but
Speaker 3: I do teach an online martial arts course. It does work,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, you don't have to go to
Speaker 3: school like a traditional martial artist. And by the way,
Speaker 3: I do teach with that teach combat mindset, which you
Speaker 3: know earlier I mentioned discipline that goes along with martial arts.
Speaker 3: That's part of it is to combat mindset. Not what
Speaker 3: to think, but how to think, which actually will accelerate
Speaker 3: your training. Program will accelerate everything you do in life.
Speaker 3: I call it psychosoma engineering mind body engineering, and that's
Speaker 3: actually the first class I start with is teaching you
Speaker 3: how to think and how how to perform. I will
Speaker 3: literally enhance your performance overnight with my program personally and
Speaker 3: on a professional level. If you have a vision of
Speaker 3: starting a business, whatever it is in the future, I
Speaker 3: can show you how to manifest that, and I can
Speaker 3: also show you how to manifest the performance you want
Speaker 3: literally overnight. You know, if you can do sixty push
Speaker 3: ups and sixty minutes, I'll show you how to do
Speaker 3: sixty five push ups by tomorrow without doing any extra
Speaker 3: push ups. Right, So, there's a whole system for that,
Speaker 3: and it's all based on science. Also, it's not so
Speaker 3: voodoo hocus pocus stuff. Everything I teach is science based
Speaker 3: and my experience supports the science and the science supports
Speaker 3: my experience. So anyways, there it is. It's dealcomps dot
Speaker 3: dot com. You can also find me on Instagram Official
Speaker 3: American Badass do mostly that kind of getting away from Facebook.
Speaker 3: I probably should get away from Instagram because they're tied
Speaker 3: at Facebook, but unfortunately our options are limited this day
Speaker 3: and age about. You know, these different type of platforms
Speaker 3: out there, But that's where you can find me moment,
Speaker 3: mainly as Instagram, and you can message me through either
Speaker 3: Instagram or dale compsuck dot com.
Speaker 2: Fascinator Right, great stuff, folks, dale comstock dot com. Official
Speaker 2: American Badass over on Instagram for now, and you can
Speaker 2: also look up his book over at Amazon dot com.
Speaker 2: Dale thank you so much again for doing this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate you having me on man got me woke
Speaker 3: up and got my blood circul Agent's old in Balie
Speaker 3: making my coffee and I'm ready to go and carver
Speaker 3: diem seize the day.
Speaker 2: For those are considered for those who are wondering Dale's
Speaker 2: over there at Bali at nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: I'm over here at five o'clock in the evening, so
Speaker 2: maybe four actually, Dale. Right now, I'm way ahead of you,
Speaker 2: absolutely many ways. Yes, folks, thank you again for listening,
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