Tony Blauer

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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