Tony Blauer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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i come back to his private lesson i've been training him for three months he was having a bully situation at school his dad was a friend of my family i'd known them for decades um literally since i was born and i'm 20 at the time and he says and his dad uh joey says mitch is having a bully situation at school i need you to um teach him some stuff because you're still doing your your your martial tricks right called the martial tricks i said yeah
It's 1980. I'm making $4.50 an hour for my father sweeping in his, in our, we had a ladies import export clothing business. So I'm in the back sweeping and I would punch boxes every day. We get a shipment in like Rocky. This is like before 1976 when Rocky, you know, came out or not 1980. It was four years after.
So I'm inspired by the Rocky scenes and I'm beating the shit out of the boxes, doing stuff. Joey says, I'll pay you. This is really how I started my business. He goes, how much you charge me for Mitchell? I go, I'm not going to charge you, friend of the family. He says, no, no, no, no, no. I want you to do this like for real and be serious about this. And I go, okay, I don't know.
I can't charge you. He says, how's 20? So I'm thinking five classes because I'm making five bucks an hour. I said, whatever, that's fine. He says, so I'll pay you 20 bucks a class. And I'm like, holy shit. And I'm going, I'm rich. I'm like, I can retire. I have you in one class. So I start teaching Mitch. Suddenly Mitch's brother Steve goes, how come Mitch gets private lessons? Now I got that.
And they're in a wealthy area. And then one day we're training outside and Derek across the street says, what are you guys doing? Next day I got 30 private, 30 like in a week.
At 20 bucks an hour. Oh my God. And I'm 20, it's 1980. And I'm still working 40, 50 hours a week.
Yeah, I'm doing. What? So I'm doing this and I'm working nine to five for my father, sometimes Saturday. And then every single night for six years, I'm teaching privately. Whoa. But Mitch's bully situation that kicked this all off. I come back for a private lesson and he's sitting there like this in his room. And I went, what happened? And he jumps up here. Can I swear on the show?
Okay. And he's going, so beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And I'm going, calm down, man. What's going on? And he goes, you know the bully? And it had been a verbal abuse up until now, no physical. And he said, man, the guy today, he put his hands on me. And I told him, you look like the school wasn't doing anything. So I was just teaching him in case it got physical.
He was running late for class, and the bully trips him, and everyone starts laughing. And Mitch gets up, and he's like, what are you bothering me for? And I'm paraphrasing it for editing purposes. You know, what are you bothering me for? I don't even know you. You've been bugging me since school started. And the guy walks up, and he goes, and he shoves him.
He goes, what are you going to do about it? To you? No, to my student Mitchell, right? And Mitch is 15 years old. And he shoves Mitch, and Mitch goes back, and he just goes red, like someone puts your hand on you, and you just lose it. And he grabbed the guy and slammed him against a locker bank and said, leave me alone, man. I don't even know who you are. You've just been bugging me.
And then he looks at me. Mitchell looks at me. He says, then he dropped me with a left hook. I said, Mitch, I don't understand. What do you mean? Like, why didn't you parry, block, flip? And he goes, well, I was... holding him with my left hand, and then he goes, I had my school books that I'd picked up in my right hand.
So you can imagine if you and I had to box, Dan, and I had to hold your shirt and hold books, how easy it would be to hit me in the face, right? And so, but, and I swear this happened. I said, I described it as it was like the god of self-defense. I was 20, 1980. I went, oh my God, we teach self-defense wrong. And what I meant by is we don't talk about the emotional psychological.
We don't have a pre-fight ritual.
Just like real violence is just sudden it happens and actions faster than reaction What happens when our situational awareness is compromised and you get a little nerdy here for a second our executive function is hijacked our cognitive brain is bypassed and our limbic systems called an amygdala hijack goes shit like and we you know, so we know Mike Tarzan been on your show many times and
He loves snakes. Most guests here, if you slipped a snake in here during the interview, they'd be like, what the? They would do. So their primitive self, their primal self would react to that until you stress inoculate. So I started that day in 1980. I said, everything we do has to make sense in the real world. And we started reverse engineering everything.
We would look at any real incident and go, what impact does it have on our body and our mind? Because I'm not going to stand there, and I always tell people now, if you look at CCTV and video evidence, you've never seen a John Wick fight in the real world. It doesn't exist. There's no evidence of it.
You would think if all of the, and I've been a martial artist for 50 plus years, so people think I'm hating on martial arts. I'm just trying to make us safer. Going, look, this is cool. I've got a gun collection. I got spears. I got knives. But if somebody broke into my house, I'm grabbing my Glock and a Tomahawk. Like, here we go.
I'm not going to grab my spear or a black powder rifle where I go miss and go, oh, like shit. Right. Let me let me reload. So we just got to look at real violence. So how did spear happen? is while I was only, I was doing Fight Club before Fight Club was a movie. We were like getting once a month together. We'd get together and beat the crap out of each other.
But it wasn't just let's fight like in Fight Club. I'd say, literally I'd go, Dan, what's your biggest fear in a confrontation? And you'd say, I don't know, two guys with a knife.
then we would do psychology we do drilling and then we'd put our makeshift gear on i lived in montreal at the time didn't have my equipment company so it was like a hockey helmet gauntlets taekwondo chess guard baseball shin guards we were like frankenstein right we'd put everything on and then i'd say uh next up uh dan fleischman and you'd put your gear on and i go dan your scenario is this
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