All well and good. After leaving the military, I too sought sparring partners for years and practiced full contact kick-boxing ( which most considered we were just street fighters then) against pro bouncers and such. I kept in shape due to this practicing (while my wife thought all my friends were trouble makers)as I was never really into any other sports(or maybe I was never good enough at those to continue). The problem though is that you have to train long and hard to make use of these skills beyond just theory, meaning that you have to make such moves a reflexive action. All this training for an urban type event. Seems I got in a lot more fights back then too...hmmm 😕

What about using this time better by preparing for an escape from an environment of which one miscalculation or just bad luck ends all that training for violence. In bad times, most folks who consider violence want to reduce their chance of injury and will try to smile up to the point their knife is inserted. And the bigger and scarier you are, the more likely you will die an unseen death due to others fearing they'd lose a frontal assault.

I did cruise some of the videos and the psychology taught is decent enough to promote their methods here to those who are interested. If one is confronted with such a scenario, yes, these tactics could save you! Just don't make them your only line of defense. You reduce your chances greatly when considering this the main road to travel. Here is one I too would promote. However unlikely that someone would let you get close enough to grab their gun, this is how to disarm your attacker...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxAeGNaqhOo

Knuckle ! guys like us will never be sheep. Military teach us to become.............wolves ( not even sheep dog )
we are wolves against other wolves. Once you are wolf you can never be sheep.

mmm ! Paladin Press. I really like their videos. Well instructional and no fancy stuffs. 😀

good share !!