Defensive Strategies and Personal Safety
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This episode delves into the complexities of personal safety both in public spaces and crowded venues, emphasizing the exponential increase in hazards one might face when stepping outside the private domain. The speakers share their personal decisions to avoid large gatherings due to potential risks from diverse threats, including cultural differences and public violence. They discuss the importance of situational awareness, the utility of self-defense tools (like blades or improvised weapons), and the benefits of physical fitness in enhancing one's ability to handle stressful situations. The discussion also covers the strategies for minimizing victimization, such as moving in groups and being aware of one's surroundings at all times, including while driving. The episode highlights the role of martial arts training in developing confidence and the ability to defuse potentially dangerous situations. It wraps up with advice on everyday preparedness, including communication strategies for ensuring one's safety and the importance of availability and proficiency with multiple defensive tools.
00:00 Navigating Public Spaces: A New Hazard
01:21 The Risks of Crowded Venues and Personal Safety Measures
02:01 Everyday Vigilance: From Restaurants to Public Gatherings
04:18 Situational Awareness: The Ultimate Defense
17:04 Physical Fitness and Self-Defense: Enhancing Personal Safety
24:36 Practical Tips for Personal Protection
30:52 Concluding Thoughts on Personal Safety
Transcript
you were was, I guess you would say like the difference between
Commando Crow:being in your private domain, stepping out the door and you're in public
Commando Crow:and the amount of, I guess the amount of hazard to one's health increases
Commando Crow:exponentially when you walk outside.
Commando Crow:That's just a fact of life, but but that's what you were talking about.
Commando Crow:First of all, with being out in public places, not necessarily
Commando Crow:crowded places, even just Being out in public and then being in crowded
Commando Crow:places or crowded venues or whatever.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah, and large gatherings are always treated
Commando Crow:a little bit different than just being in public and I personally
Commando Crow:don't go to large gatherings anymore.
Commando Crow:Not just because times have definitely changed and I'm glad I don't
Commando Crow:now because you just don't know.
Commando Crow:To me, I feel like it's just a prime target.
Commando Crow:Doesn't really matter if there's any strategic location or anything anymore
Commando Crow:with all of the people that have come over the border and from so many
Commando Crow:different countries that actually hate us, that like to do bombs and just
Commando Crow:make a statement, just mass numbers.
Commando Crow:Glad I don't go to a public place or should I say.
Commando Crow:gatherings anymore, but yeah.
Commando Crow:And I don't think you're just talking about going to concerts or something
Commando Crow:like that, either, like we used to do when we were younger, even
Commando Crow:going to restaurants or going to the post office in Jackson is scary.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:But going to restaurants or, private businesses, obviously the numbers of
Commando Crow:patrons can change from place to place or type of business, whatever it is.
Commando Crow:But yeah, I would be specifically talking about, like concerts or
Commando Crow:festivals or stuff like that.
Commando Crow:I really don't want to put myself in that position because it's just too hard to
Commando Crow:keep eyes and identify possible threats, especially, if you're not working with
Commando Crow:some type of a team and even a team, is it going to be able to catch every threat?
Commando Crow:So I just removed myself from those situations altogether.
Commando Crow:And then, it's you prevent getting eaten by a shark by not going in the damn
Commando Crow:water, so I'm you won't hear of little old me being blown up in a large gathering
Commando Crow:because I don't go to large gatherings Whereas I mean if I go into a convenience
Commando Crow:store or a fast food restaurant or an actual sit down restaurant I mean i've
Commando Crow:got my standard things that I do anytime I walk into a business I'm looking for
Commando Crow:back doors, alternate exits or whatever.
Commando Crow:Suspicious people.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:I get eyes on everybody that's in there.
Commando Crow:Not that I'm not sitting there staring them down.
Commando Crow:I'm not doing any of that, but just simple observations, I don't, and I'm
Commando Crow:not looking for things like side arms.
Commando Crow:If somebody is carrying a side arm, more than likely if it's
Commando Crow:holstered, more than likely.
Commando Crow:He's legit.
Commando Crow:I'm not worried about those kind of things.
Commando Crow:I'm worried about the people that go in with either baggy clothes.
Commando Crow:They openly portray a thuggish look.
Commando Crow:I don't mean thuggish as in just gangster.
Commando Crow:I'm talking they don't present themselves well.
Commando Crow:the clothes or yeah, just things like that because you don't
Commando Crow:know somebody is carrying a gun.
Commando Crow:Which like I said somebody got one on the side on a holster.
Commando Crow:I'm not worried about that guy Hey, man, he's got the right to have it.
Commando Crow:I'm probably feeling a little safer if he does have it But yeah,
Commando Crow:i'm looking for sketchy things
Commando Crow:You're talking about just, every day and, general living,
Commando Crow:inside your own dwelling it's hard enough to keep up with what, I say
Commando Crow:hard enough, we always collect stuff we don't need or don't realize we kept
Commando Crow:for so long and don't get rid of, but, being inside and trying to keep up with
Commando Crow:what's What can be used against you or not in case of a break in is a lot.
Commando Crow:But when you walk outside, just walking out on your front
Commando Crow:porch, especially where I am.
Commando Crow:You walk out on the front porch and there's no telling how many bullets are
Commando Crow:falling from the sky today, but even without that, you've got, people I've been
Commando Crow:amazed at how many people walk underneath trees where the limbs are hanging, and
Commando Crow:they don't even notice the limbs, but they'll walk right up underneath them
Commando Crow:and believe it or not, the smallest limb.
Commando Crow:He'll kill you easily.
Commando Crow:Oh, yeah.
Commando Crow:And, when you started talking about this public place thing, I'm thinking
Commando Crow:right outside is a public place.
Commando Crow:It's outside of my private dwelling, so it's a public place.
Commando Crow:But just the smallest things that, I look at hanging limbs or, a tree that
Commando Crow:might fall over in the road eventually one day, just things like that.
Commando Crow:I'm always observing though, but then when you start talking about
Commando Crow:adding people into the mix, there's a lot more you start looking at.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah, and women are prime targets on a lot of these
Commando Crow:things because, a lot of people don't realize, and I'm not just talking about
Commando Crow:Latin American countries but I am gonna specifically name out those, but a lot of
Commando Crow:Latin American countries, their culture is, by the age a little girl hits puberty,
Commando Crow:they can legally have sex with that child.
Commando Crow:And like I said, I'm not trying to call any one nationality out.
Commando Crow:There are a lot of nations that have come into this country that also have
Commando Crow:very different cultures and would be considered unacceptable here.
Commando Crow:And white women, like they go into a Walmart or a Target or a big box store,
Commando Crow:constantly keep your head on a swivel and just see if one person, it's not hard
Commando Crow:to recognize the same person showing up around you go through 10, 15 different
Commando Crow:aisles or locations in a store and the same cats there, things like that.
Commando Crow:That's unnerving.
Commando Crow:And it's not just unnerving.
Commando Crow:It's highly suspicious.
Commando Crow:Now, am I going to sit there and just say that, Oh I see this
Commando Crow:person in a lot of different places where I'm going in the store.
Commando Crow:Does that mean they're out to get me?
Commando Crow:I'm not saying that I'm just saying, be aware.
Commando Crow:And if you do have somebody following you in a store, if they don't have security,
Commando Crow:find somebody to walk with you to your vehicle, have your phone in your hand.
Commando Crow:Hey, call the police.
Commando Crow:I'm not a, I support cops, but they're getting to where they don't
Commando Crow:really want to do much of protecting.
Commando Crow:They want to show up after the crime.
Commando Crow:Have some keys in your hand, put your hand on a knife.
Commando Crow:If you carry a pew, have your hands on that son of a bitch.
Commando Crow:When you're going out, don't just have comfort knowing you've got it.
Commando Crow:Put your hands on it.
Commando Crow:Even just a can of mace or.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:Or what do you call it?
Commando Crow:A phaser.
Commando Crow:Those horns.
Commando Crow:Or if something makes some noise.
Commando Crow:Believe it or not, just the slightest startle of somebody
Commando Crow:will turn them the other way.
Commando Crow:But yeah, anything.
Commando Crow:You don't necessarily have to have a gun to defend yourself.
Commando Crow:No.
Commando Crow:I think your best defense is something you were planning
Commando Crow:on talking about here anyway.
Commando Crow:It's just simple, I say simple, situational awareness.
Commando Crow:And knowing what's around you at all times, or getting, getting to
Commando Crow:the point where you can sense what's around you, is absolutely key.
Commando Crow:I didn't realize how key, even though I had lived on the streets before, when you
Commando Crow:taught me how to take in martial arts.
Commando Crow:Remember, we used to train blindfolded.
Commando Crow:I was like, what in the world?
Commando Crow:How do you do this?
Commando Crow:You'll figure it out or you'll get your butt kicked a few times but
Commando Crow:you'll start listening to movements.
Commando Crow:You'll start, you get to where you can feel your environment move or whatever.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And these things, situational awareness is something
Commando Crow:you don't need money to practice it.
Commando Crow:You don't need any set location to practice it, a right environment.
Commando Crow:The right environment is the environment that each and every one of us is in
Commando Crow:wherever you are.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Just practice it.
Commando Crow:Pay attention.
Commando Crow:If you're driving down the road after you leave a business, when you leave
Commando Crow:a parking lot or before you leave the parking lot, get eyes on vehicles that
Commando Crow:are leaving at the same time that you are.
Commando Crow:And not just the vehicle is quick to identify if you're 20, 30 miles
Commando Crow:down the road and that's the same vehicles there, but good eyes on the
Commando Crow:person operating that vehicle also.
Commando Crow:You need to be doing that anyway, driving because you,
Commando Crow:that's how you drive defensively is keep your eyes on the drivers
Commando Crow:or not keep your eyes on drivers, but be Aware of what they're doing.
Commando Crow:What the dad used to make us do all the time.
Commando Crow:Look at the guess what game in front of you.
Commando Crow:Guess what?
Commando Crow:What if they
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: do?
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:What if they pull out?
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:You know what if, because
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: yeah, you might be clear as day.
Commando Crow:That guy might not be watching and he might just creep out in front of you.
Commando Crow:If you're watching his head as opposed to the car.
Commando Crow:You'll
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: get a better idea as to what he's thinking about doing,
Commando Crow:which is true.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: It is true.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:Situational awareness, in my opinion, is key for anybody's personal protection.
Commando Crow:No matter what situation you're in, start practicing And it is
Commando Crow:a skill because you can hone it.
Commando Crow:You can get better at it and, just start really paying
Commando Crow:attention to who is around you.
Commando Crow:In every situation, like I said, driving a vehicle, going in a store.
Commando Crow:I can't even begin to think of all the places that regular people go.
Commando Crow:I go to a million places.
Commando Crow:For my job, I go to a million places.
Commando Crow:When I get off, I go home, but of course I do go to Sam's
Commando Crow:or I do go to a tobacco shop.
Commando Crow:I do things that put me in public, but I'm constantly aware of what's
Commando Crow:going on around me constantly, and it doesn't bother me at all for myself.
Commando Crow:I just anticipate the worst.
Commando Crow:Period.
Commando Crow:I'm don't know what bad I'm looking for.
Commando Crow:I just know that if it gives me an uneasy feeling, whether I'm right or wrong, if I
Commando Crow:get an uneasy feeling, I leave that area.
Commando Crow:Have to expect the worst anyway, especially in this
Commando Crow:world we live in today, because there's always been bad in the world.
Commando Crow:So you, you have to expect bad things to happen.
Commando Crow:We've been told our whole lives and expect the unexpected boy.
Commando Crow:Were they talking a lot about that in the military?
Commando Crow:Always expect the unexpected that's the, man, I know what
Commando Crow:it is, bad things can happen.
Commando Crow:Bad things do happen.
Commando Crow:There are bad people in the world.
Commando Crow:That limbs fall out of trees once in a while.
Commando Crow:Expect those things to happen.
Commando Crow:But don't think.
Commando Crow:For any, don't think for any minute that'll never happen to
Commando Crow:me, because as soon as you think it, it's bound to happen to you.
Commando Crow:And the I forgot what I was fixing to say but like you were talking
Commando Crow:about expecting bad things to happen.
Commando Crow:You might be like at the tobacco store, everything looks calm and cool,
Commando Crow:but then you walk out and there's a shootout going down Highway 80.
Commando Crow:You don't want to get caught up in that, right?
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:And those are just things that you have to expect.
Commando Crow:Especially because of the world we live in today.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And another thing is, and it happened quite a bit, 2020.
Commando Crow:If you live in an area and there is going to be some type of a
Commando Crow:demonstration or protest or something going on, I don't care if you got
Commando Crow:a lot to say about that topic.
Commando Crow:I don't care if you want to go join it.
Commando Crow:Don't.
Commando Crow:Because there's always going to be, you got mob mentality.
Commando Crow:One person does something stupid and then that's going to encourage many
Commando Crow:other people to do something stupid.
Commando Crow:And you have greatly increased your chances of being a victim.
Commando Crow:I don't openly put myself in positions that I would call even marginally risky.
Commando Crow:I don't care how impassioned I am about a certain topic.
Commando Crow:If they wanted to come tear down a dang historical statue or monument,
Commando Crow:I don't want them to tear it down, but I'm not going to be the
Commando Crow:guy that goes down there either.
Commando Crow:I'm just not going to do it.
Commando Crow:There are other avenues.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah, but I know about me.
Commando Crow:I know harm or I don't plan on hurting anyone.
Commando Crow:I don't have intent to do anything, but I can't speak for those other
Commando Crow:people and whether I want to hurt somebody or not, which I don't, I
Commando Crow:can't swear that everybody there ain't, is thinking the same way I am.
Commando Crow:And if you're there, you could be in, you could end
Commando Crow:up in a position where somebody's going to have to get hurt.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: That's yeah.
Commando Crow:Cause I'm not going to back down if I have to defend myself or my wife, I'm going
Commando Crow:to defend us, but I'm not going to put myself in a position to have to do that.
Commando Crow:Nobody wins a fight,
Commando Crow:right?
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And the altercations.
Commando Crow:That we're talking about, you don't know the limit or to the extent of
Commando Crow:what that other person would do.
Commando Crow:It might not be pull out a gun or a knife and shoot or stab somebody,
Commando Crow:but it could very well be that, they got three or four buddies, they want
Commando Crow:to mark somebody and they kick your head in and still kill you, it is,
Commando Crow:and you're just an innocent bystander.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah, there's no reason to be in that situation at all.
Commando Crow:But yeah, and I think everybody ought to take take the initiative, have a
Commando Crow:little personal responsibility and start exercising and honing that skill
Commando Crow:of, awareness and, being so aware.
Commando Crow:Hyper aware of your surroundings.
Commando Crow:It's just, it's so important.
Commando Crow:Yeah, especially today with everything going south as it is,
Commando Crow:but, there's something that can go hand in hand with situational awareness.
Commando Crow:And I know, my kids still like to go to concerts and things like that.
Commando Crow:And that's great.
Commando Crow:We were young too.
Commando Crow:We went to all kinds of concerts.
Commando Crow:We were going when Mosh pits became a big deal and then people started
Commando Crow:dying and boy, do we get people in an uproar over that, right?
Commando Crow:It happened.
Commando Crow:We were in a few of them.
Commando Crow:We grew up.
Commando Crow:Things were a little worse today, like I said, my kids
Commando Crow:still like to go to concerts.
Commando Crow:All my kids are females.
Commando Crow:Now, granted, I got one that can handle herself quite well and handle quite
Commando Crow:a few people by herself, but there is something that can be done if you,
Commando Crow:if you just want to go to concerts.
Commando Crow:I don't say anything wrong with it.
Commando Crow:Just make sure you go with a crowd of people.
Commando Crow:Extra eyes watching out for each other.
Commando Crow:As long as you're watching out for each other, you minimize the chances of
Commando Crow:anything happening to you or anybody else.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:And that's really true.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:Moving in groups is probably one of the best things you can do.
Commando Crow:I know that You can't always have people with you all the time, but life just
Commando Crow:doesn't work that way, but absolutely like for me, hell, anybody in the
Commando Crow:military, but specifically like when I was in basic training, Fort Jackson
Commando Crow:had a problem with sexual assaults
Commando Crow:and
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: everywhere.
Commando Crow:We weren't allowed to do anything.
Commando Crow:We had to move with our battle buddy, period.
Commando Crow:Wherever they went, you went.
Commando Crow:Wherever you went, they went.
Commando Crow:And women especially.
Commando Crow:Women had to be just about escorted everywhere they went.
Commando Crow:It was insane.
Commando Crow:And I'm sure everybody that was in the military during that time remembers that.
Commando Crow:We had day shutdowns just so they could go over the articles
Commando Crow:at UCMJ about sexual charges.
Commando Crow:It was crazy, but yeah I remember all that.
Commando Crow:Yeah,
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: take your battle buddy.
Commando Crow:It's good to do that anyway.
Commando Crow:I don't think, as a matter of fact, the whole time I was in,
Commando Crow:I don't think I went anywhere without another sailor or marine with us.
Commando Crow:We always traveled in groups, now it'd probably be that group that cleaned
Commando Crow:out a bar, but we were just having fun.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: See, there's another thing that goes along with
Commando Crow:the situational awareness in the area, like what we're talking about
Commando Crow:specifically, not becoming a victim.
Commando Crow:And that people don't understand.
Commando Crow:A lot of people don't.
Commando Crow:Physical fitness is more crucial than people think.
Commando Crow:It's not just so you'll, have a stronger heart or lung capacity or larger muscles.
Commando Crow:It,
Commando Crow:Oh, that helps
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: physical fitness helps with clarity and
Commando Crow:thinking with stressful situations.
Commando Crow:People have generally the physically fit do better and stressful
Commando Crow:situations of making decisions.
Commando Crow:It also provides a level of confidence and the confidence that
Commando Crow:I'm talking about, isn't it's not walk around boastful or cocky.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:When you're physically fit, there is a air about you.
Commando Crow:You're confident you're not, it's like training martial arts or Jiu Jitsu or
Commando Crow:Judo or whatever, or being a boxer.
Commando Crow:You just look at anybody that's a battle tested veteran.
Commando Crow:He'll walk through situations everybody else is running from.
Commando Crow:It's not that he's not scared of it, but he's been through it.
Commando Crow:He's conditioned to it.
Commando Crow:He's more prepared for it.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And because of that confidence, other
Commando Crow:people can sense that confidence.
Commando Crow:They don't know what you know, and you present yourself in
Commando Crow:public as a confident person.
Commando Crow:As a confident person, you are less likely to become a target or a victim.
Commando Crow:And I would recommend physical fitness, which applies in
Commando Crow:almost every aspect of life.
Commando Crow:It's going to bode you well.
Commando Crow:Your life, the quality of life is going to be thousand times
Commando Crow:better if you are physically fit.
Commando Crow:Then, I know everybody can't go off and do some type of training
Commando Crow:Close quarters training is ideal.
Commando Crow:I think some type of jujitsu, something.
Commando Crow:Cause if you know this stuff, even basics and you're walking around and you are
Commando Crow:confident that you have learned certain things and you're proficient executing
Commando Crow:those techniques, you are less concerned about somebody trying to do something
Commando Crow:to you because in the back of your head.
Commando Crow:You understand and realize that I've got something for you.
Commando Crow:I'm not going to be an easy target.
Commando Crow:And that's the type of confidence that I'm speaking of.
Commando Crow:Not only that too, when you have that kind of confidence, you
Commando Crow:have that kind of skill, you've got that ability, you're also that person that's
Commando Crow:going to try to defuse the situation before you have to use that ability.
Commando Crow:And I think that's where a lot of that confidence comes from, to be honest.
Commando Crow:I'm speaking from personal experience, probably more than anything
Commando Crow:else, but it seems to me that's where the confidence comes from.
Commando Crow:Yeah, I got certain abilities other people don't have, and I can probably
Commando Crow:hurt somebody pretty badly, but If I don't have to, it took something to
Commando Crow:get to that ability, that skill level.
Commando Crow:So you have a, you have a respect for what it took to get there, right?
Commando Crow:Because you didn't just get there, you got your butt handed to you several times.
Commando Crow:So you're more than likely going to try to diffuse the situation
Commando Crow:before you have to use something.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And it goes along with the old saying that with
Commando Crow:great power comes great responsibility.
Commando Crow:Most people that learn any type of fighting, I don't care what kind it is,
Commando Crow:if they have a good instructor, that instructor, 100 percent of the time,
Commando Crow:a good instructor is going to advise their students, this is not for you to
Commando Crow:go out and impose your will on people.
Commando Crow:This is for self defense.
Commando Crow:Last resort.
Commando Crow:Yeah, you'd be taught And if you master those skills, you get
Commando Crow:proficient at those skills, you will be effective a good attacker.
Commando Crow:And it's one of those tools that, in my opinion, it should be in every tool box
Commando Crow:It should be what, you broke up?
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: One school boss.
Commando Crow:Now, me, I'm not.
Commando Crow:What happened there?
Commando Crow:You there?
Commando Crow:Mike,
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: can you hear me?
Commando Crow:Yeah, I can.
Commando Crow:I don't know what happened.
Commando Crow:He just disappeared for a second and came right back.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:But, I'm not as proficient as I once was because I drive and I
Commando Crow:don't, I can't go to training.
Commando Crow:I don't know anybody that is trained in my immediate circle, which is very small.
Commando Crow:And yeah.
Commando Crow:So I don't get to work on my hand to hand skills very well or very much.
Commando Crow:But the one thing, and I am abnormal in this sense, I'm very
Commando Crow:abnormal, is that I'm tough.
Commando Crow:You can beat me, you can do all kinds of damage to me, but I'm not going to quit.
Commando Crow:I'm just tough.
Commando Crow:I don't feel the pain like a lot of people do.
Commando Crow:You can hit me in the head with a two by four and chances are I'm
Commando Crow:still going to be there in the fight.
Commando Crow:But I've been conditioned to getting my ass handed to me for a
Commando Crow:lot of years and I'm so I'm pretty
Commando Crow:convinced that I'm pretty convinced that I'm just tough.
Commando Crow:So even though my skills aren't refined, I have the knowledge, my
Commando Crow:lack of proficiency, my toughness, will kick in at that point.
Commando Crow:Right.
Commando Crow:I don't know what happened then.
Commando Crow:There was like, the screen's still jittering a little every now and again,
Commando Crow:but did you finish what you were saying?
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:Okay.
Commando Crow:I couldn't tell.
Commando Crow:Cause I think you froze up right about the time you were saying
Commando Crow:that's where your toughness kicks in.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:The things we hadn't discussed yet as part of that
Commando Crow:personal protection aspect of.
Commando Crow:And this was something I hated as a kid, but now I, I adhere to it pretty
Commando Crow:closely because mainly because where I've been in life, you don't want to be
Commando Crow:caught with your pants down if you will.
Commando Crow:But one of the things that I have found to be very beneficial is always making sure
Commando Crow:somebody knows where you are, when you're going to be somewhere, that sort of thing.
Commando Crow:And even how I'm going to get there and how I'm going to get back because.
Commando Crow:Anything happens between here and there and back, I don't want, I
Commando Crow:don't want to be attacked in any way and then left on the side of the
Commando Crow:road and nobody know where I'm at.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: At some point, somebody's going to be missing you.
Commando Crow:Exactly, and I would like them to be missing me a lot sooner
Commando Crow:than later, because that could be the difference between life and death.
Commando Crow:And, I've had several friends throughout the years who got run
Commando Crow:over by a car coming home, but they didn't die for four or five days.
Commando Crow:They're laying there in a ditch and nobody knew where they were, and
Commando Crow:I don't want that happening to me.
Commando Crow:If somebody.
Commando Crow:If somebody knows where I am and when I'm going to be back
Commando Crow:and I'm not back then, hopefully somebody will come looking for me.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah I don't know.
Commando Crow:There's so many aspects of this.
Commando Crow:And for me, I'm going to use knives as an example, because I have.
Commando Crow:Always got an undisclosed amount of blades on my person.
Commando Crow:I would never say how many, but it is better than
Commando Crow:you don't want them.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah.
Commando Crow:You got four more on it.
Commando Crow:Where are they?
Commando Crow:I just leave that an undisclosed amount, but
Commando Crow:people used to tell me, you don't mind people
Commando Crow:saying you carry a knife.
Commando Crow:Do you?
Commando Crow:Yep.
Commando Crow:How many do you think I have?
Commando Crow:Yeah, I
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: don't mind.
Commando Crow:The thing about it is, I carry multiple blades.
Commando Crow:And I carry multiple blades.
Commando Crow:Now this is just my way of thinking.
Commando Crow:I don't know what situation I'm going to be in.
Commando Crow:Say somebody gets to drive on me.
Commando Crow:Say they try to restrain me somehow.
Commando Crow:I've got blades that are accessible in just about from any position.
Commando Crow:I have multiple blades also, just for the fact that if I do require a use of
Commando Crow:a blade and it gets knocked out of my hand or it gets taken from me, I don't
Commando Crow:want to be a shit Creek without a paddle.
Commando Crow:Yeah, I've got backup.
Commando Crow:And I just, need to start identifying with any type of
Commando Crow:a defensive tool or weapon.
Commando Crow:Whether it be knives and knives are so cheap nowadays and ain't got to be.
Commando Crow:high end knives, but knives are cheap.
Commando Crow:Getting quite a few of them is very easy.
Commando Crow:Having your keys in between your fingers as a very good weapon.
Commando Crow:You'd be surprised the length of a key of this inch and a half, two inches long
Commando Crow:with an amount of force and repeatedly thrust into a body, especially certain
Commando Crow:locations do a lot of damage to somebody.
Commando Crow:You definitely think twice
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: easy.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:Oh
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: yeah.
Commando Crow:And they'll be sprout.
Commando Crow:You put enough holes in them.
Commando Crow:I'm digging.
Commando Crow:Believe me.
Commando Crow:They'll stop.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And if they don't, you don't stop period.
Commando Crow:Tack and you just don't stop until they ain't moving no more.
Commando Crow:And
Commando Crow:I'll tell you, I don't know
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: why
Commando Crow:people haven't talked about this in a long
Commando Crow:time, but one of my favorite.
Commando Crow:Weapons was actually a roll of quarters.
Commando Crow:It's not illegal to carry a roll of quarters But I guarantee you put one
Commando Crow:of those roll of quarters inside a fist and it becomes an iron fist.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Oh, yeah nowadays with inflation, I don't
Commando Crow:even know if i'd be able to roll
Commando Crow:a nickels maybe
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: I'll be breaking into that every couple minutes But
Commando Crow:okay say it's not a roll of quarters
Commando Crow:Yeah,
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: get you a wooden dowel or something and
Commando Crow:get it cut the size of your palm where it'll lay across your palm
Commando Crow:Does it
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: width of your palm?
Commando Crow:Maybe even a little longer anything that I'll put inside your hand
Commando Crow:that'll increase the more solid
Commando Crow:yeah turns more to a Bruce Lee fist than it does,
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: Yeah,
Commando Crow:Torch lighters are good for that.
Commando Crow:Even a knife.
Commando Crow:If you're holding a pocket knife in your hand, the blade is not open.
Commando Crow:You can use that.
Commando Crow:It's not going to feel good to you, but you can use it.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: But and people need to understand that there are a
Commando Crow:lot of things that can be utilized for weapons that are just everyday devices.
Commando Crow:That's right.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And knowing where they are.
Commando Crow:There's a perfect weapon right there.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:That is a perfect weapon.
Commando Crow:Keeping them
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: accessible.
Commando Crow:Yeah.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: And I'll be honest also, it would be smart.
Commando Crow:I used to study pressure points and if you study pressure points and
Commando Crow:human anatomy, I guarantee you minimal effort from you can repel an attacker.
Commando Crow:Actually, and I'm going to add to that because I found out.
Commando Crow:Through experience that, those pressure points, you can render your tack attacker,
Commando Crow:incapable of doing anything period.
Commando Crow:As one example I have of that, when I came back here from Texas and started training.
Commando Crow:In Pearl, this guy, he flat out told me that I was not to pick up a weapon
Commando Crow:in his studio until he trained me how to use it, and that would be
Commando Crow:way down the line, because of where I was as far as my training, right?
Commando Crow:But one day, he asked me if I saw a weapon on the wall I liked, and I said,
Commando Crow:sure do, and he said, go get it, so I grabbed a four inch, four foot bow staff.
Commando Crow:He said, now go grab me the most dangerous weapon on the wall.
Commando Crow:I'm looking at all these weapons going, let's say, no, yeah, I don't do this.
Commando Crow:That was let me think.
Commando Crow:It was a key ring that had a three, three inch piece of wood on it.
Commando Crow:Had three grooves.
Commando Crow:And that's it.
Commando Crow:He said that was the most dangerous weapon and told me to go ahead
Commando Crow:and hit him with that bo staff.
Commando Crow:And I said, really?
Commando Crow:He said, yeah, and don't give me one of these little sissy swings.
Commando Crow:He didn't use that terminology.
Commando Crow:And he said, don't give me one of these sissy swings like my other students do.
Commando Crow:He said, go ahead and hit me with it.
Commando Crow:And I said, okay, you asked.
Commando Crow:And by the time I was saved for it, I went to swing thinking I'm
Commando Crow:going to catch him off guard.
Commando Crow:The next thing I know I'm laying face down on the floor.
Commando Crow:I could not move.
Commando Crow:And he had the staff and it never touched the floor.
Commando Crow:And oddly enough, when I could move again, I did the dumbest thing I could have ever
Commando Crow:done and I said, how did you do that?
Commando Crow:And he said, just like this two fingers right in the middle of the back.
Commando Crow:I was like, Oh, I didn't want you to show me.
Commando Crow:I want you to tell me twice.
Commando Crow:I went down.
Commando Crow:It was not a long paralysis, but 30 seconds down.
Commando Crow:It'll give you plenty of time to get away.
Commando Crow:All-American Commando: But pressure points, studying pressure
Commando Crow:points it, it is a good thing.
Commando Crow:I studied them for years when I did martial arts and I wanted to get
Commando Crow:to the point where I had to utilize less force to repel my attacker.
Commando Crow:And it also makes light work out of a bad situation.
Commando Crow:that concludes our discussion today and we
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