Ryan Hall: Best Martial Art for Self Defense | Take It Uneasy Podcast
HGZ4E-qUd1A • 2014-06-11
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Kind: captions Language: en yeah I've competed in boxing Judo wrestling Jiu-Jitsu MMA MMA yeah uh what do you think is the best martial art for defending yourself against an untrained opponent there's so many different factors but let's say for instance okay most fights I've seen are one-on-one the the fights we hear about are an ass whipping like seven people versus three people and okay the the more variables you add in it gets very very difficult I would say the the best fighting style is using your brain and because let's avoiding the fight well avoiding the fight but I would say intelligent it's just like investment now I know nothing about investing which is why I don't do it but um let's say for instance Warren Buffett is looking at a stock page now I'm speculating because I don't know Mr Buffett but um I do have some understanding of how the world works so I would say that some days he looks at the page and says aha there's a good investment here and other days regardless of his skill in investment he says there's nothing to do the best thing to do is wait but you're Warren Buffett tell me the best investment yeah best investment today still sucks and I'm not going to make it talk to me next week and I'll see what's out there so so next week we're going to make we're going to we're going to invest some money maybe and then you know he'll make the read as he sees it so let's say for instance you walk into a room and your goal was to kill everyone in the room and you are armed but you walk in to 50-50 ji- Jitsu and you're going to shoot everybody but for whatever reason it's bring your gun to the gym Tuesday and everyone else is sitting there polishing they're fully loaded again rounding the chamber safety off weapons hot all that good stuff and you see everyone else is armed what do you do wait till Wednesday yeah you come back in on Wednesday when no one's armed then you shoot us all it' be great so it's that being the best tactical shooter you could be as ninja as you want we're going to kill you there's too many of us and too few of you could you make it out of there and like some sort of Boondock Saints awesome luckiness and and manage to get everybody sure I wouldn't bet on it that's like Floyd Mayweather against three people I would bet on him sometimes seriously anybody that tells you differently has never fought an untrained person because regular people can't fight for and the other thing is they get scared so when Floyd literally cripples the first guy with the right hand the other two guys unless they're really serious are probably going to go uhoh and then hesitate but they may not but so if you think about it though four people five people three people oh let's say it's one-on-one but Floyd's minding his own business against snuck over the shoulder as he's sitting there ordering a drink at a bar all these different things factor in so I would say that when it comes to the physical expression of how to best defend yourself the most important thing is situational awareness and understanding what's going on around you because you could be the world's greatest ninja warrior and still run yourself into a lose lose situation could I knock out Floyd Mayweather yeah sure I could if he let me hit him but um I don't think I would come within spitting distance of him if he didn't want me to I would have no teeth before I even tried but if he sits there and lets you hit him he is a man he is Mortal so basically under the right circumstances anyone can win under the wrong circumstances anyone can lose so I would say that understanding that is the step one to being able to Be an Effective effective strategist who can read a situation you say should I fight this one out should I not should I get out of here should I fight for 4 seconds and run for it um and you know when you take into account the physical expression of everything and you want to let's say for instance you know the most the best things for defending yourself in real life I would say probably wrestling or jiu-jitsu um probably Jiu-Jitsu really in my opinion but for fighting I would say other things if I want to be able to beat up more than one person I now it implies that I can wrestle or I can CU regular people can't wrestle for you will you could pick them up and slam their head on the ground there's something horrible you know but boxing would be nice as well but let's say you're a great boxer and someone tackles you could a regular person tackle a good boxer yes all right could a regular person sucker a good jiujitsu guy for sure but it also really comes down to the to the mental and everything like that but basically if I to pick one art and everyone knows nothing I would pick Jiu-Jitsu but in my opinion Jiu-Jitsu at a high level involves wrestling so yeah just like you said grappling is is this bigger thing that involves Wrestling Judo everything oh no doubt that's like you take an Olympic level wrestler and you let him lean on top of you in side control it it's not pleasant
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