Street Fight Technique - 3 Effective Door Strategies

Someone is about to attack you in a real street fight. This bad guy is approaching -- fast!

If your goal is to stay safe, then you have to make a very quick decision. Can you get away to safety?

Note: To paraphrase my teacher and those who came before him, if you turn and run away, you may live to run away again another day.

What may seem like two choices are really three:

* Will you have to stay and fight?
* Can you get away to safety?
-- and --
* Can you get away, temporarily?

In Street Fight, Run for a Building

You won't always be able to use this tactic, but it might just save you in a real street fight.

If you can't get away to safety, that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Maybe you can get to an open or unlocked door. A door affords you all sorts of opportunities:

* There could be help on the other side of the door. If you are in a rough area of town, the establishment may be prepared to deal with aggressive types.
* Maybe you could get to the other side of the door and lock it. You didn't get completely "away," but you did get to safety.
* The door is a good weapon ...

By the way, the whole time you are running to safety, you have to Size Up Your Enemy.

Using a Door in a Fight

If you can make it to the door, and you can't get to the other side in time to lock it, you can still make use of the door in a fight:

* grip the door by the handle or edge, for a short, quick swing into your attacker's face
* slam the door into your attacker's arm as he (or she) reaches inside, to try to grab you.
* use the door as a weapon that can be kicked or shoved into your attacker.
* hold the door open as if inviting the attacker in -- and then slam him in the face as he passes the threshold.

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Keith Pascal has been a full-time martial-arts writer for eight years and a martial-arts teacher for 25 years. Ban inefficient techniques

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