{"id":72168,"date":"2024-01-13T02:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=72168"},"modified":"2024-01-13T02:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T08:34:41","slug":"7-ways-to-avoid-getting-your-ass-kicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/13\/7-ways-to-avoid-getting-your-ass-kicked\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Ways to Avoid Getting Your Ass Kicked"},"content":{"rendered":"

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7 Ways to Avoid Getting Your Ass Kicked\u00a0<\/a><\/h1>\n

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“Studying violence. What is most important for the civilian combatant to learn? Well\u2026If you don\u2019t want to get your ass kicked\u2026it\u2019s also smart to avoid being stupid<\/a>.” –\u00a0Breach-Bang-Clear<\/em><\/h2>\n

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Studying Violence<\/h2>\n

There are a few things you might ought to do.<\/h2>\n

Some conversations I\u2019ve been in recently on social media have brought up the question of what\u2019re the most important things to study and train in order to become a proficient civilian combatant\u2014in other words, what should people prioritize if they want to avoid getting their asses kicked in the event of a fight. After some thought, I came up with the following list of seven items. I\u2019ve ordered them deliberately, to some extent the order I\u2019d recommend someone brand new to the field approach and prioritize them. Of course, there\u2019s plenty of room for debate on that subject, and I don\u2019t at all claim this is the definitive list. For example, I left off medical training, which I do consider essential to being a good armed citizen, specifically because that\u2019s for dealing with the effects of a fight rather than helping you during the fight itself. But the list was designed to spark thought and conversation.<\/h2>\n

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1. If You Don\u2019t Want To Get Your Ass Kicked | Fitness<\/h2>\n

Three components to this. First, you need a decent enough conditioning level so you\u2019re not gassing out 10 seconds into a fight. Whether or not you can keep going is one of the most decisive factors in an entangled engagement of any sort. Plus it helps when you decide discretion is the better part of valor and it\u2019s time to run away.<\/h2>\n

Second, you don\u2019t have to be the strongest guy\/gal in the world, but stronger is better, especially relative to your opponent. Yes, technique is a thing, but strength can overcome a LOT of shortcomings in technique so long as you\u2019ve got at least SOME technique. A recent article at jiujitsubrotherhood.com pointed out what the author called \u201cthe biggest lie in jiu jitsu,\u201d the idea that technique overcomes everything. In fact, a strong fighter with decent technique will generally overcome a weak fighter with excellent technique.<\/h2>\n

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7 Ways to Avoid Getting Your Ass Kicked\u00a0   “Studying violence. What is most important for the civilian combatant to learn? Well\u2026If you don\u2019t want to get your ass kicked\u2026it\u2019s also smart to avoid being stupid.” –\u00a0Breach-Bang-Clear   Studying Violence There are a few things you might ought to do. Some conversations I\u2019ve been in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5445,13,473,74,3986,398,399,483,484,402,15334,2863,10,404],"tags":[658,1798,8490,7276,6656,7993],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72171,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72168\/revisions\/72171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}