The other day, I saw something incredible, something ordinary, but this time, I saw it through the eyes of a street fighter. A girl, about 5 or 6 years old, tried to be dragged by the hand by a boy who looked like an older brother or some other relative who was about 12 years old.

While crying in protest, she suddenly stopped crying and became aggressive. She bit his hand and kicked him hard in the shins. She fell to the ground clutching her shins and rubbing her hand writing in pain with a shocked face. Of course, she let go of the girl as she ran into the arms of an approaching lady who looked like her mother.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the child’s instinctive fight response that will still work for us today as adults. We just have to relearn what we already know.

Instinctive Fighting Tips

1. Fight like a human, not like an exotic animal. There has been much romance and myth surrounding most modern martial arts as taught and taken from their ancient origins centuries and centuries ago. There is an idea that we as humans should mimic the fighting styles of animals in order to be efficient fighters. Really? Animals walk on all fours. Humans walk in two. Animals have hair. Humans wear coats. Animals stalk barefoot. Humans wear shoes and sometimes boots. Someone help me! I don’t see the similarity. Look, this is my premise. A bear has an instinctive way of fighting. It stands on its hind legs with some difficulty and uses its front claws to strike. A kangaroo has an instinctive way of fighting. Since its tiny arms are almost useless, it must use its powerful front legs to deliver front kicks and rely, but it doesn’t scratch like a bear. A crane has an instinctive way of fighting. It uses its beak and claws with its feet, but the claws on a crane’s feet cannot be said to be the same as those of a bear. A snake can only wrap and squeeze, if it is not poisonous. A snake does not scratch or kick. Where am I going with all this? I claim that we too, as humans, have an instinctive way of fighting that is best seen in its primal state when young children fight, kick and bite.

2. Cock – Cock – Cock – I put this three times because this is the most basic and primary self defense technique there is. Biting is not polite. And that is exactly what we want. Biting is painful, and when an adult suddenly does it to another adult, it is shocking and disarming. If you bite almost anywhere on an attacker and don’t let go, panic sets in and you literally bite the fight out of them. This reminds me of when I was about 12 years old, when I didn’t even know the meaning of martial arts. I was talking to my girlfriend in the neighborhood out on the sidewalk when the neighborhood thug comes on his bike with two of his cronies. This bully was about 13 or 14 years old, and he was much, much taller and bigger than me. Ride to my side. I turn to look at him. “What you’re looking at,” he challenges me. “I’m looking at you,” I reply, not wanting to sound like a whimper in front of my girl, when suddenly, “Pow!” He punches me in the forehead. He disorients me, and before I know it, he’s lunging at my legs, hitting me in the stomach with his shoulders, picking me up by the back of my knees, and throwing me to the ground. Now he’s trying to get into position to punch me and punch me in the face trying to hold my shoulders down with his hands. Well, while he was trying to do this, he accidentally pressed his cheek against my lips. Instinctively, I bit into that fool’s cheek like it was a rib eye steak. And I didn’t let go. Now,
Hey He’s supposed to be the one kicking my ass, but he’s screaming and screaming like a girl. After getting tired of hearing him scream in my ear after a couple of minutes, I released him. His jaw was bleeding and he was in shock. He and his friends got on their bikes, drove off and I never saw him again to this day.

3. Sucker punch – That’s exactly how the bully got the best of me. He punched me. But of course, as adults, we have to give it a fancy name, which is why we call it “preemptive strike.” The Dee Dee. The Dee Da. It’s all the same. The idea is to hit first before the other person has time to react. (And of course, don’t let your guard down and be unaware of a possible first strike from the other person.)

4. Learn and master just one or two powerful techniques – Keep it simple. Keep it easy to remember and easy to execute. Stay away from any martial arts system that claims to teach you 400 ways to execute a technique against an attack. This is ridiculous because all it will do is slow down your reaction time as your mind begins to process which of the 400 techniques you should use when you see this crazy SOB with a knife standing in front of you ready to disembowel. you like a fish fillet. you will freeze You won’t know what to do. And in all probability, you will end up seriously injured or killed. This is like someone telling me they want to show me 400 different ways to wipe my butt. Well, I contend that at least 398 of those ways are totally unnecessary. If a child is learning to tie his shoes and you try to show him 400 different ways to tie his shoes, in an emergency, how fast could he tie that shoe with 400 different ways going around in his head? In self defense and street fighting, less is more, meaning less is more than enough to take care of business and protect yourself. Keep it simple. Keep it powerful. Keep it instinctive.