You can do both. You don’t need to be that dude in tactical shorts and a polo with a white undershirt, wearing a paracord bracelet and grandpa sandals.
PCP, really? The strength enhancing, pain numbing drug that makes people unreasonable? I wasn’t even giving advice to someone like you, and my profession certainly isn’t for someone like you. If I gave you advice I’d say run away whenever anyone attacks you, if you can’t run away just let them beat you up then call the police afterwards. Like I said, I’ve been in a lot of “real” fights and boxing (with some grappling) is the most effective straight to the point martial art, and I also participate in BJJ and Muay Thai.
If you get physically attacked by someone on PCP your first instinct should be to knock that person out cold, that’s exactly what I would do. One of my colleagues politely tried to reason with someone on PCP, he even offered to buy him food but he was beaten up instead. He had 3 of his fingers broken and bite marks on his neck.
In a year I’ve seen 20 new employees join the company I work for and leave within a month or two. When I first started this job two of my colleagues resigned within a week, right after our intensive one week, 12hour a day induction course. One decided not to turn up because he couldn’t hack the first day, the second guy who was an ex police office left after a vagrant attacked him with an umbrella. My new operations manager who had only just joined the company a month earlier decided to patrol with me one day because he thought our confrontations with drug addicts were fabricated. 20minutes into his first patrol with me an Irish traveller smashed a bottle of Jack Daniels over his head. You also need to know how to talk to people but some people can not be reasoned with. Boxing with some stand up Roman Greco/Freestyle wrestling (sprawling) is the most effective straight to the point martial arts and it’s helped me plenty of times.
Nah bro every street fight should go to the ground because we all know how much fun it is to roll around on broken glass and hiv infected needles. My personal favorite is trying to put someone in a triangle choke and getting my head stomped on by their friends!!
This is spot on dude. If you can’t avoid a fight you want to minimise the effect of your environment and be able to disengage if things get uglier. Both of those things are easier on your feet.
Do you know how the human body works man? Blows square on the chin or to the temple rattle the brain by creating shockwaves in the head, it’s like if you pick up a laptop and shake the shit out of it, it shuts down to avoid further damage. It doesn’t matter what they feel. Believe me if willpower or ignoring pain was everything there would be very few professional fighters ever getting knocked out as they’d push themselves through it. Real life aint Naruto man. You can’t will yourself to shrug off hits by thinking about Sensei’s memory, it doesn’t work like that and drugs that mask pain can make you harder to deter but they 100% don’t stop you being knocked the fuck out.
Normal people can’t will themselves through high voltage electricity or metal shrapnel, yet PCP users do so routinely. It’s got nothing to do with willpower.
I’ve never met somebody on PCP, but my natural response varies by distance and direction. I’ve walked by trash can with a squirrel jumping out ninja style while making a combustion like sound and I instantly jumped back a meter. Somebody nearly walked into me while I was turning the corner without paying attention and my fist was halfway to his chin before I realized. Somebody came up on my blind side and my elbow was half way to his face before I realized. If aware, I would likely grapple, push, box, strike vitals, or weak points in a tactical matter. Can’t wrestle on the ground to save my life, but always land in good positions ready to wring somebody’s neck, legs, or arms. I do not wear shoes or pants suitable for kicking, so I would refrain from throwing anything but head kicks while backing away, knees while grappling, low kicks while throwing combinations. Elbows to the spine, kidney punches, knees to chin, eye gouges, or fish-hooks I would refrain from using unless necessary.
Last night, I reached out to a friend who tonight arranged a sparring practice specificially for me - to fight six people in a row for 30 seconds each, two rounds. Though I personally wasn’t impressed with myself, everyone cheered me on and expressed how impressed they were. My stamina and offense need work, but I believe my defense was great. It was actually a very exciting experience and I’m thankful they did for me.
My friend asked me why I specifically reached out to him and why I wanted to improve my sparring, which was due t told me that being a purple belt, my sparring capabilities were at the levels of a white to yellow belt (I will say it’s due to my hiatus and frustrations with my abilities and thus “quitting” sparring"), but that it was okay because him being a black belt, his coach considered him his sparring abilities to be of the green to blue levels. Adding to that, he said while he wasn’t impressed with me during 1v1 matches, he was impressed by the “guts” I displayed when taking on six people (according to him, he doesn’t have those “guts” because he still overthinks, especially when fighting larger opponents). Tonight actually made me feel very good about myself and as if I’m capable of becoming something.