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This Self-Defense School Is Mind Blowing!

This is the best self defense school I’ve seen yet and here’s why. — Learn more about Jeff Phillip’s self defense school here: http://www.westerncombatives.com.au/ Welcome to the Martial Arts Journey YouTube channel! My name is Rokas. I’m a Lithuanian guy who trained Aikido for 14 years, 7 of them running a professional Aikido Dojo until eventually I realized that Aikido does not live up to what I thought it promises. Lead by this realization I decided to make a daring step to close my Aikido Dojo and move to Portland, Oregon for six months to start training MMA at the famous Straight Blast Gym Headquarters under head coach Matt Thornton. After six months intensive training I had my first amateur MMA fight after which I moved back to Lithuania. During all of this time I am documenting my experience through my YouTube channel called “Martial Arts Journey”. Now I am slowly setting up plans to continue training MMA under quality guidance and getting ready for my next MMA fight as I further document and share my journey and discoveries. — If you want to support my journey, you can make a donation to my PayPal at [email protected] SUBSCRIBE to see when the next videos will come out: ► http://bit.ly/1KPZpv0 Check the video “Aikido vs MMA” which started this whole Martial Arts Journey: ► https://youtu.be/0KUXTC8g_pk If you want to support me and this channel on a regular basis check my Patreon page: ► https://www.patreon.com/rokasleo #selfdefense #kravmaga #martialarts

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Martial Arts Journey says:

Learn more about Jeff's self defense school here: http://www.westerncombatives.com.au/

Russ Tuckerman says:

Yes, please film that! It is great to learn how formal training does fit (or doesn’t fit) into those confined real world situations. And what we should be looking at and adapting for.

John Mulcahy says:

Great idea to get them all together for the learning and later teaching.
About 20 years ago, a friend used to be a Canadian Mountie. At one point he had the opportunity to work as one of the defense instructors at the RCMP main training depot. All the instructors, representing a variety of styles, decided to revamp the defense system they taught officers. They pressure-tested each style's method for dealing with scenarios that police officers typically encounter. He said it was painful and people did get banged in the face, and a couple ended up getting knocked out – but they learned what worked and what didn't. They weeded out anything that was deemed too slow or ineffective and ended up with something very brutal but effective.
He later ran a version of that as a self-defense system. We did learn some specific techniques, but not set pieces. Rather, he'd put us in various situations and then say "Get yourself out of that." You tried this and that until you found something that worked that time. Then you tried with another person or people and quickly realized the same thing that got you out of the same situation might not work every time every situation is unique just by changing the person – or even with the same person. It really helped get your head into the reality of self-defense.

Neil Blanco says:

Having all of you in Australia at the same time would be amazing! Please, make it happen!!!

S Burgos says:

Hell yeah!! Getting all of you in a training course and posting it!! Definitely a good time and one I would watch.

Liam Nagle says:

self defence master would be so cool def think about it

Kip Streuling says:

I definitely want to see you all do a video like that!

natasja van limburg stirum says:

Yes we want the video!

Sean Dittman says:

Need more real shit like this, and it also breaks the unhealthy Martial Arts Meta that doesn't reflect real scenarios, in real life. 10/10

gustav sloth says:

Oh heck yes

HeroRoar says:

I would love to see that video, that sounds awesome

Benjamin Lewis says:

Rokas if you put together that challenge you will be undisputed king of martial arts youtube

Denton Holmgren says:

definitely do the whole ultimate youtuber self defense tourney thing

Adrian Vonino says:

Yes, that's an awesome idea.

jens behrendt says:

in short – these people are psychopaths trying to train psychopaths

Forrest Outman Phoenix says:

This is 100% the truth. 25 years ago I left the martial arts world as a focus and decided that I would train for reality because I was dealing with real fights and weapons and environments and none of them addressed that. I started going to different gyms/dojos (whatever vernacular you like) and asking them if I can train in whatever I wore that day and not take my shoes off because that's how fights actually happen. None of them would allow that, wtf? All of these places profess to teach self-defense but they don't. I fought in rings, and on mats, and in tournaments, and in cages, and none of that is reality. What that taught me is to get comfortable with walking towards violent trained people, which is one of the dumbest things you can ever do. What they should have taught me is to maintain distance verbally de-escalate, and understand my environmental factors so I wouldn't give myself in that situation to begin with. If I hadn't trained intensely for years I definitely would be either dead or very damaged, honestly it's a miracle I'm not. The best self defense is not fighting to begin with. After that force meets threat. For example I have fought drunk friends or even once a friend's drunk dad, I don't want to hurt them I just don't want them to hurt others or myself. So I'm not eye gauging thier balls.

My only concern is they didn't have any guns, in the US this IS the primary.

ghostbeetle says:

Cool beans, man! Keep at it!

Mau Xian says:

Please do!!! I think it’s a great idea. Much respecto for all your work and journey.

TheGreatgan says:

Tight places like bus, elbow is always the best move to make.. the only kick you can do is the mae geri front kick or muaythai push kick..

petersonnl says:

In most martial arts schools, instructors set up senerio attacks that assumes you're alert and ready. Unfortunately, in real life, perpetrators don't generally attack you when you're ready. They attack when you're not ready and vulnerable.

Ajaybhai Shah says:

Nice use of psychiatric Coloring for Educating and Training not just think it works Wow I'm ready now 😀 because it looks like a real environment without ecosystem.

Atreyu Archer says:

I would LOVE to see this martial arts YouTuber showdown come to fruition. What a cool and fun idea

Ajaybhai Shah says:

A Tualatin there is screaming and cursing loudly. Family insults not rated for Jerry Springer and much more entertainment-NON. To break down intellectually and mental even perhaps morale. Intellectual mean you are doing soul searching for resolution in moment of crise.

Hagen Anon says:

of course i would be interested in an martial arts youtuber gathering!

garren osborne says:

OMG yes all you guys [& perhaps would make sense to have the ladies in on it too] go to through Jeff's self-defence scenarios would be as close as MA gets to scientific by far & usefully entertaining too

Rick Deckard says:

I would like to see Jason Bourne and John wick in that mix of YouTube martial artists.

Steven Skelly says:

I'd love to have a go myself. I was going to try and organise something like this myself for my own self defense training. Where I'd give out like foam weapons and MMA gloves to just a few of the "Hard" lads I knew and had them attack me in certain scenarios and see how I would come out. Film the footage and analyse it. Though I had trouble gathering people to do it. I think, because I'm known by my locals as the MMA guy, no one was looking forward to the idea of possibly taking a punch from me regardless of whether they had a foam bat or superior numbers.

Robert Pieszczyk says:

hell yeah!!!!!! try to bring all of youtubers to that tournament^^ hope also some dudes, who are fokusing on Grappling (BJJ, Judo, Wrestling, sambo, etc. each)

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