How To Survive and Thrive In a Street Fight in 8 Simple Steps

Several years ago I was in a pub having a pint and tossing some darts. These young kids were in the next lane learning how to drink and getting obnoxious. At some point I asked one of them to watch where they were walking (into the dart lanes) and as I turned away he hit me on the side of the head with a long neck bottle. The bottle broke and I saw stars but didn’t go down. It took a brief moment for me to clear my head and turned to face him. His eyes got huge and he rushed me trying to tackle me around my waist. Again I didn’t go down but took a few steps backwards and backed up against a wall. At that point I looked down at my attacker, who still had me around the waist and realized that I was still holding three needle sharp steep tip darts and was looking at his left ear, neck and one of his eyes. Realizing that I had one or two kill shoots available to me or at the least could really mess this guys up, I turned and handed my darts to a bystander. At that point the bouncers showed and pulled us apart. Questioning the people around us, they told the manager that had I not only not thrown a punch, but willingly gave away my darts. The other guy was banned from the pub and I was looked at as keeping my cool and not turning a little brawl into a murder scene. Weapons can certainly be useful, but keeping your shit together, more important!

Keep. your. chin. tucked. close. to. your. neck. as. possible.

PUtting out your chin is a very bad thing to do when in a fist fight. Tucking your chin will take away his ability to deliver a solid uppercut and limit his options to hooking to the jaw.

Also, always remember to keep your hands up. Hold them so your elbows are around stomach level, fists at chin level. This allows you to protect your entire torso and face with minimal movement.

And don’t forget shock value attacks–saying or doing something completely retarded and unexpected can sometimes make their jaw–and their guard–drop long enough for you to finish the fight or escape.

I don’t recommend blocking a punch with your forehead or moving your head towards it. Tough one to pull off right and you may just take it on the nose or in the eye. Keep your chin down and you will likely be hit on the forehead anyway. Hands up high as street fighters are probably headhunters and hit your man with elbows rather than fists.

Fists have a lot of little bones and ligaments and are fragile. Your elbow has one sharp bone that is virtually guaranteed to cut your man. Thrown correctly it will break something in their face. I also recommend throwing the first blow if possible – a single elbow to the face will end most fights.

To learn elbow strikes and other effective fighting techniques take a course in Muay Thai.

However, as the author says the best thing is avoid street fights altogether as they can result in either hospital time, prison time or both. Really not worth it.

All I can say is God created man but Sam Colt made ‘em equal!

Best not to get into any stance that gives the game away.
Look into your everyday stances being your self preservation stances surprise is a big key in winning self defence situations if you messed up.

Your game plan as always should be to stay away from places where trouble is a regular occurrence if possible.
Get away from a potential situation if possible by being switched on and seeing the signs before trouble kicks off.
Then if that has failed look to control the situation by using dissuasion, talking it down be careful with your choice of words your tone of voice and body language.
Everyone has an invisible space that they consider there own space so try to control that space with your hands again not giving the game away.
Control the adrenaline, look for tell tale signs that trouble is immanent use an action trigger. A good one is ask a question then its also a brain disengagement.
Then if you need to hit them so hard there ancestors feel it.
If you haven’t finished it with the first shot fitness mindset and impact are the key ingredients!
Keep it simple!

Hit First Hit Fast Hit Hard and Hit Last!

to make them go all dizzy keep slapping them in the face and their eyes go all watery then while they r runbbing their eyes form a fist with your hand n punch their neckso it will cause a blockage in the throat then knee them in the tummy then while their down kick them in the tummy again several times and stand on their ankle :)(if it is a girl and girl fight instead of kicking them in the tummy pull their hair real hard)

Blocking is always an action you should avoid, work to parry, subtlety is the key as it unbalances your opponent and gives you more control over the situation.

Blocking early interrupts their action and can work against a completely clueless opponent but it allows them to react if they know what they are doing.

Leading with your head is very risky against an educated fighter, “Moving your head towards the punch, tightening your neck muscles and clenching your jaw. ” could very well get you knocked out as you have no ability to roll with the punch or “rock back”.

If however you make use of Mendoza’s parry you could guide the punch and use cribbs technique to break the small bones in the hand instead of rocking back.

The first step I would probably look into for these situations would be work from systems that are directly applicable to a street fights, Savate (Defense Dans la Rue) Pugilism (Bare Knuckle Boxing) etc.

So, I’m sitting down outside last night after the pub about 30 metres from it, preparing myself mentally for the seemingly epic half mile odd walk home when two young , 19/20, chaps engage me in a dialogue before landing a straight to the nostrils, I ask him why he did this, I was talking to his girlfriend. Giggling i ask if he hits every male she speaks to, hits me again. Now Im not a violent man, in fact the entire idea repulses me but hit me twice for nothing. nah mate. so i gored the fucker against a car and started brawling, his mate had began at this point to hit me also. Gotta say alcohol does cushion the blows plus unleashes drunken monnkey! So anyway ended up flooring the pair of them. dusted myself down and headed home. Like i said i dont like violence but did get a good feeling defending myself from arseholes. If you find yourself in such situations and fighting is the inevitable route my tips would be to have greater stamina, I was exhausted after but they were worse, get them on the ground as soon as possible, through a sweet hook or wrestling, ground and pound can be good in one on one if faced with a group throw to floor and kick , i dont like kicking when someone is down but if they have two people fight as dirty as you need to be. Also it is wize to note that if you manage to get the upper hand dont go over board. once they are tired and hurting they will soon feck aff!

Id advocate a stance with your arms in front of you, palms facing forward, your “main” hand behind your first.

This is not threatening, yet keeps your hands and arms in a position to attack or block.
Dont lock out your arms, it makes them slow and easy to snap at the elbow if somone has any form of martial arts training (its a simple thing to roll somone into a arm lock and break bones).

Bend slightly at the kness, like a spring, lower your centre of gravity slightly, this will help you retain you balence and SPRING forward, with great speed. Almost every drunk man will throw a haymaker or a wild swinging punch. These are slow, terribly slow. Simply “spring” forward and slam the heel of your main hand into their nose/face. Its almost impossible to land a haymaker vs somone who is facing you and uses the method described above. At this point your insider their reach, have likely broken thier nose and can do whatever you so wish, you will have gained 1-3 seconds of “free” fight time, an uppercut with your back hand or a elbow to the jaw should end it. If somone grabs your leading hand and pulls leap into the pull and do as described above, people expect resistence to a pull, not an acceptance of the pull.

Fighting is a bad idea, unless there is no other option and your life in danger (or the life of somone your with). If you must fight, you want to end it as quickly and violently as possible, this is VERY important in a if you have several opponents, if you drop the first guy in a brutual and messy fashion (getting a horrifed scream of agony usually does the trick, say by compound fracturing his elbow, stamping his knee so it breaks backwards or dislocating his shoulder). Hopefully this will shock the others, or make them aid their ally and give you time to escape.

Once again, fighting is stupid, and should never occur unless to save ones own life, there are too many ramifications otherwise.

when ur in a fight in highschool or work or what ever dont DO A HOOK U ALL WAYS SEE IT COMING what u should do is a kinda left jab jab then pull back and smack him in the face as HARD AS U CAN then a left hook
now then a right uper cut this is coming from a kid so u dont have to listen im 15 as well ….. remember no rechreat no surrender put his ASS DOWN

Firstly, prepare. Learn how to fight.
Secondly, have clear principle on what constitues a credible threat. If you do have a confrontation, even if it’s only verbal, have the fight and leave OR leave straight away. Don’t hang around waiting for his mates to have a go are worse to be blind sided once you have had afew more drinks.
On a personal note; I have a friend who was afraid of fighting and confrontation despite being able to handle himself very well. So instead of avoiding it he bacame a bouncer and surrounded himself with it. After a few months a look from him was all it took to settle a drunk down

Good advice. Only thing I disagree on is “clenching” your teeth. You can get a broken jaw just as easily that way. You want to have your mouth shut and your teeth touching but not clenching down, that is too excessive. Also, keep your chin down. When you have it sticking out it is a way bigger/easier target which makes it more likely for a knock out.