Street Fight - Can You Defend Yourself?

Street Fight - Can You Defend Yourself?

In general, street fights unfold in a few certain ways. Theres either an extremely quick knockout, loads of swinging punches between the two fighters, or the fight goes to the ground after a while. Street fights are very unfair in some ways, they take no prisoners. The feelings that go through your mind and body when you know you have to fight can be scarey. You feel shakey and weak, not forgeting nervous. Your adrenaline takes over. These feelings are actually helping you, although it may not seem like it at the time.

This is your bodys way of preparing you for a fight or battle of some kind, so don't be scared of it. Everyone feels like this, or has done at some point. These feelings can be controlled, you can use them to your advantage. The fear factor can save you, keep you alert. If you do a Martial Art of some kind, or boxing, you don't feel the same scared feeling, your still nervous but in a different, more prepared kind of way. You feel more alert towards the situation rather then really shakey and scared. This nervous feeling can be overcome with the right mindset, no problem.

Like i have said before, the more you practice fighting, whether it be Boxing sparring or Martial Arts etc, you will be much more at ease when you know a fight is going to happen, rather then it be totally alien to you. It's the same with anything in life, a new job, after a while you get more experienced and become able to do your job better.

If you keep on feeding and working on the thing your scared of, throwing yourself into the fire, you will become so used to it, that after a while it becomes second nature. We are creatures of habit. In order to conquer anything you have to face it full on. The more you face it, the more you become less fearful of it. So then a fight doesn't seem that scarey anymore and it's down to the fact that by training in boxing or martial arts, your confidence has out grown your fear and you know you can defend yourself.

Always try to stay out of a street fight, they are bad news and should be avoided if possible. Never set out to learn to fight just for the purpose of fighting for no reason, just because you know you can. You will never find inner peace, or make many friends this way.

Avoiding a fight should be at the top of your list, but if it can't be avoided, you have to know how to defend yourself, because at some point, it will be needed.

Fighting and Stamina

Fighting and Stamina - Can You Defend Yourself?

Fighting is the same as most things, if you want to be good, you have to practice. You have to go over the same moves again and again, making sure you master them all to perfection, but this is not all you have to do. One of the most important things that can win a fight or lose a fight is fitness and stamina.Without this, it doesn't matter how much you practice a particular move or punch combination, If you don't do any fitness training at all like running, sparring, bag work, press ups etc, the chances are, you will get tired very quickly in a real fight. Fitness and stamina can be the difference between losing and winning, or even life and death

You can have one guy that has no power in his punches at all but has good stamina, and another guy who is really powerful but gets tired really quick. If the guy with no power can weather the early storm, after a while the powerful guy will tire. Then the weaker guy will become effective because he has better stamina. This is a very important thing to remember. Obviously, when you get into a street fight, Adrenaline will take over to begin with, but what if the person your fighting is quite a good fighter and you start to feel the strain and become tired? You need to have some stamina. And never forget, in a real fight, every punch you throw or every grapple you get into with your opponent is even more tiring because you tense up and use much more strength and energy because your scared for your own safety.

Fighting and Stamina - Can You Defend Yourself?

Grappling / Wrestling in a real fight is very energy sapping. You can be really fit, but if you don't practice some form or wrestling / grappling, you will be nackered afer 5 mintues. Keeping yourself in good shape is the best option.

Try to keep yourself fit. Make sure you do some form of fitness and stamina training quite regular. Needless to say, we all go through times where we slack off here and there, even i do. But as a whole, try to fit some training into your weekly schedule at least 3 times a week. You don't need to kill yourself everytime until you can't breath, but make sure you get a decent sweat on. Do a really hard training session once a week. Don't do what i am saying here if your overweight or have any medical condition, but if your in decent shape, then training moderately 3 times a week should be fine.

Remember, YOU know your own body and limits better then anyone else. So always listen to your body. Don't over do it, specially to begin with. Get your body used to regular training before doing any hard training sessions. The last thing you want, or i want, is for you to become injured or worse.