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Think about that for a second. What would you be reacting to if you're not training against another person? What feedback would you get if your timing is right without another person?

Did you have ketamine in the truck? That would be a popular one to such types.

If I recall you were jacked because of the contents of your vehicle. Can you clarify this? I assume your case was pre-meditated and as such is an exceptional.

And to what demographic do those people belong? I assume that a low-income white male in his late teens to early twenties is more likely to be a victim than an upper-middle class woman in her 40s. As for buses, any CCTV footage I've seen of such attacks invariably begins with a verbal prelude. The victim in such cases is failing to respond out of fear, understandably so.

Shall I repeat myself? Under what circumstances do people have to deal with a physical assault beginning while they're seated AT ALL? I've only known this to happen in bars when the victim is not aware and/or drunk. If you get sucker punched when you're sitting down, awareness and hanging around in bad bars is your downfall, not neglecting to train defenses against it. I only care about something statistically significant. You might have to deal with a knife attack while skydiving for all you know - it's not impossible of course, but with prevention and awareness the chances of it happening are infintesimally small.

I'd add that Wing Chun, for all its apparent exposure and popularity, has never been able to demonstrate its viability as a fighting system. I have yet to see WC practitioners using its body structure, power generation, trapping or footwork in MMA competition. Nor have I seen WC practitioners spar with good amateur boxers, nak muay, wrestlers, judoka, or BJJ guys with any success. Demonstrations of Wing Chun on the internet, various TV programmes and in my own personal experience all fall firmly within the category of dead patterns - compliant, choreographed and wholly ineffective.

Two questions: 1. Under what conditions have you found those things to be your strengths? 2. Why would you not train to have game at all ranges? That's rather haughty, you talk about it as though it's easy.

That's debatable.

I've never heard of a good coach who wasn't at least in the past a very good fighter, though I'm sure there are lots of amazing athletes that wouldn't make the best coaches.

You don't need to be a shut-in when the vast majority of places you could go on vacation or a business trip are not prime carjacking territory.

I'm currently in Beijing, previously lived in central London and North Wales. Where do you live? Rio de Janeiro?

If you did get sucker punched, you won't be sitting on the chair when you're defending yourself, assuming you weren't KO'd straight away. And if you saw the fight starting before he punched, you'd have gotten on your feet. But again, it happens so rarely to a person who doesn't kerb-crawl in gangster territory that it's a waste of time. You are almost certainly not in the demographic of people who are likely to suffer a carjacking. If you've allowed yourself to enter an environment where you could get sucker punched as you're sitting down or carjacked, and been unaware right up to the point there's a fist or gun in your face, then your chances of not getting beaten the crap out of and/or having your car stolen are slim to none, and there's no strategy or particular technique that's going to flip the odds in your favour any more than just lashing back with violent intent and the basic techniques you already know.

Under what circumstances do people have to deal with a physical assault beginning while they're seated AT ALL? I've only known this to happen in bars when the victim is not aware and/or drunk. If you get sucker punched when you're sitting down, awareness and hanging around in bad bars is your downfall, not neglecting to train defenses against it.

Apparently yes, as you have already done so - rather worse off for wear, but you survived. I would say you're going to reduce the chances of being injured in such a way again by taking preventative measures and carrying a gun than you are by doing TKD.

So your point is, train against what you're likely to come up against in the real world? Like, with resistance and aliveness? Wow, that's a novel speech you just made.

High-intensity weightlifting and cardiovascular conditioning will do it for you.

Deadlifts, rack pulls, timed bar holds, pinch gripping, grippers, wrist roller.

It's the Valsalva manoeuvre. No, it isn't dangerous.

Squats, presses, deadlifts and cleans. That will be all.

Never mind any damage a little weight on your wrists and ankles will do, it won't do much at all for your punching or kicking power because they don't resist the line of motion of any kick or punch.

The pre-emptive strike as a first line of defence against assault is totally justified and has known to be the optimum strategy since time immemorial. As for the legality of it - SBGi's Luis Gutierrez said that if you avoid dodgy bars and clubs you will eliminate 99% of potential fights. What you're left with is real violent assaults, and they're most likely going to be near your home where the odds are against you - weapons, multiple attackers, size/strength disparity or a combination of the three. If you've done everything possible to avoid violence (like you should do as a civilised person with a life to live), then you're going to be in a much clearer legal position to use a pre-emptive shot.

The pre-emptive strike as a first line of defence against assault is totally justified and has known to be the optimum strategy since time immemorial. As for the legality of it - SBGi's Luis Gutierrez said that if you avoid dodgy bars and clubs you will eliminate 99% of potential fights. What you're left with is real violent assaults, and they're most likely going to be near your home where the odds are against you - weapons, multiple attackers, size/strength disparity or a combination of the three. If you've done everything possible to avoid violence (like you should do as a civilised person with a life to live), then you're going to be in a much clearer legal position to use a pre-emptive shot.

In all seriousness, how likely is the average person to be a victim of a carjacking in their lifetime? Obviously this depends on where you live, but I'm pretty sure if you're not cruising in South Central LA or Johannesburg that your chances of suffering such an attack are tiny. Add to that taking preventative measures and I don't see why you'd bother trying to train a defense while seated.

This is a rather ponderous thread for a question that is so simple to answer. Want to know if you have fighting ability? If you can consistently train full-contact with a skilled, aggressive and pain-tolerant athlete in a particular range, then you have ability in that range. If you can't glove up and survive in sparring against a good amateur boxer, kyokushinka or nak muay, then you can't strike. If you can't hold your own against a good amateur wrestler, judoka, even a good hockey or rugby player trying to clinch you and take you down, you can't fight in the clinch. If you roll with a good amateur wrestler or Brazilian jujitsu blue belt and you're the one who's always getting submitted or choked out, you can't fight on the ground. Now there are always martial artists to be found in other systems that would be a good test of skill, but never in the numbers or consistency of going up against the above-named athletes. I would exhort anyone to try the above with an honest mind and use it to evaluate your training, and it can only be a very positive experience of growth and understanding about one's own abilities.

Can someone please give the original poster a link to Bob Orlando's article on Christianity and the martial arts.