If you’re not prepared to deal with pain and injury fighting is not an option for you.

Pain and injury are realities of close quarters combat, self-defence and street fighting.

Instructors or practitioners that have not experienced actions on pain and injuries can hardly consider themselves as having real life experience up against formidable foes and having an understanding of the realities including pain, injuries and wounds.

It is not uncommon for practitioners of different styles and codes from all walks of life that have never fought for real where there are no rules let alone defeated anyone that meant them bodily harm.

While close combat, self-defence, street fighting and hard core combat sports are about protecting oneself as much as humanly possible and winning, the realities are contact injuries and wounds come with the territory.

The importance of knowledge provided from operators and instructors that have battle-field and urban violence experience including explaining the effects of being wounded to combatants is very important as it prepares combatants by making them aware of effects and probable outcomes as well as how to best deal with such dire situations.

From that first burning sensation through to what can be expected and what needs to be done next is vital life or death knowledge that you cannot get from someone that has never experienced real life actions on and defeated formidable foes.

When your aggro in an actions on or blue there is no time for feeling or thinking about painful effects of impact contact if you are busy doing the business.

If you have your faculties and capabilities intact and the will to win nothing will stop you giving it your very best.

Some have the intestinal fortitude and will to come back hard after being out on their feet or knocked down and even out while others do not.

Some when strangled unconscious come back fighting while others are subdued and lose the will to fight.

It very much comes down to the individual’s mental make up, their training and them being introduced, accustomed to and inoculated against the effects of contact and injury.

This is far removed from the safety of studio training where is all about safety, fair play and controlled role play.

Contact in training is important to best prepare exponents for real life actions on realities.

We inoculate CQC exponents and candidates against the effects of contact by controlled dosage contact exposure that is increased with gains in confidence and skills competency.

We expose them to controlled level violence effects and give them the tools and tactics to overcome the effects and increase the level of violence commensurate with their gains until they can deal with hard heavy and hostile sudden aggressive shock actions.

Knowledge is power and being trained by those that have had their share of exposure to hard heavy and hostile fights and close quarters actions on means they are learning from those that have experienced all the physical and psychological aspects of the real life realities of doing the business.

Such expert instructors/operators and fighters that have proven themselves know how to best prepare their understudies to manage and cope with contact impact.

They can introduce trade craft training methods specific to close quarter’s combat contact effects management including mil CQB/CQC/MSD mental toughness enhancement tactics and skills.

Battle inoculation like mental toughness enhancement for close quarter’s actions on is vital to best arm practitioners with best capabilities to defeat over dog aggressors.

Contact and pain should be motivators to get the job done and get it done quickly and must never break a combatant’s will and desire to defeat their foe.

The black thud or sparking of blunt force trauma impact and the burning boiling sensation of penetration wounds as well as pressure and snapping effects of hyperextension and crushing learned by experiencing controlled doses and instructed knowledge from those that have been there and done that enable best chance prevention or counter threat neutralisation.

Battlefield close quarters combat utilisation of foul methods stopping your enemy in their tracks along with dirty street-fighting means and methods are very different to competitive fighting or traditional sparring.

They do not require the same level of physicality or requirement for techniques that are based on multiple components and fine to medium motor skills.

Brass knuckles like combat boots produce very different levels of pain injury incapacitation and change outcomes by considerable.

There are some very different realities on the battlefield and in the street where combatants and fighters know how to incapacitate or eliminate an enemy by targeting their most delicate human senses and life-support functions and will do so ruthlessly.

Incapacitation or destruction of such delicate human bodily senses and life-support systems by armed or unarmed battlefield means can neutralise the most formidable combatant or fighter.

No one is unbeatable and anyone can be taken out or stopped and you only have to look at highly trained ready and prepared fighters that get stopped in competition, even though they are willing and doing their very best to defeat the enemy.

Someone cleans your clock and it can be lights out and outside your control to fight on.

Fighters and combatants that are mentally tough must be prepared and ready to deal with the pain of hard and heavy contact and get on with doing the business of defeating their opponent/enemy.

Facing a formidable enemy in a close quarters actions on requires over kill ravaging continued assault actions to ensure they cannot recover and come back with vengeance.

Many understand that the effects of pain in a fight equates to being alive and able to fight/combat your opponent/enemy.

Some simply do not have the intestinal fortitude to overcome their fears of having to combat or fight a willing aggressor; they simply allow their lack of mental toughness to determine their fate sometimes even before a punch has been thrown.

Pain is a motivator for the mentally tough highly trained that are willing and prepared to overcome the mental/ physical/medical effects of real life actions on.

Pressure can be life or limb destructive in combat sports and in battlefield close combat as this equates to seizure securing squeezing crushing or hyperextension destroying bodily functions.

Being secured under such means and methods can be the start of the end.

Pain should be considered as your friend letting you know you are alive and capable. However pressure is an enemy that needs to be prevented or stopped immediately before it is too late.

Outside the rules of sport for close combat actions on knowing that foul/dirty/deadly means can be utilised to target delicate human bodily senses and life support human anatomy targets provides a best means of immediately breaking the enemy’s hold on you.

It does not require the same mental toughness to neutralise an enemy when you are highly armed or when you have the backup as in law-enforcement or corrections by being part of a team, but it is very different on your Todd facing a formidable foe that intends to do you grievous bodily harm and you do not have superior weapons capabilities or a team to back you up.

Military close combat using CQB/CQC weapons maximises escapes and chances of battlefield formidable threat neutralisation.

While individual mental toughness is a must the importance of training and practising methods of mental toughness/inner resolve enhancement increases your chances of victory over defeat.

No gloves, no protectors, no rules, no officials and no safeguards, where it’s anything goes when up against an enemy that just wants to do you serious harm and the realities of pain and pressure, injury and wounding will be blatantly apparent.

The only difference between those that are prepared to do what needs to be done and those that cannot is that the formidable fighter/combatant will not give in or give up while they have the capability to defeat their opponent/enemy but those that do not have the inner resolve and intestinal fortitude to overcome the effects of facing a formidable proponent/enemy just give in and are defeated.

Being defeated on the battlefield or in the street, where there are no rules can be terminal.

Your body is an amazing machine that produces natural painkillers in the form of endorphins as well as adrenaline giving you what you need to overcome adversity and defeat formidable foes.

So in a nutshell the fighter/combatant that is prepared, willing and armed with the best of battle proven capabilities will do what has to be done to win while those that are not up to the challenges of real life actions on do nothing and become a victim of their own inadequacies and their aggressors bad intentions towards them.

While you can train all your life in a safe environment with rules and no or limited contact, this does not mean to say you will be able to stand up to the realities of what an enemy that cares little about reputation and just wants to cause you grievous bodily harm presents.

Those that have boxed, kick boxed, bareknuckle fought, competed in MMA, been in street fights or have battlefield close quarters actions on experience will be well aware of the effects formidable foes present and the realities of hard heavy and hostile contact and as such are far better prepared than those that have not had such experience and been prepared to deal with such contact.

You just can’t take an instructors spoken or written word of street fighting prowess as gospel and should probe them for details.

Those that have proven themselves will be well known and those that have not will be unknown, it’s that simple.

It’s important that you get your training from those that have the hands on experience and records of service in their trade-craft code or on the cobbles if you want your skills based on fact and hard learnt lessons.

When your aggro and want to do the business pain from the realities of the actions on may well go unnoticed and even when you get caught by a good one, what matters most is protecting yourself and getting on with winning.

Never underestimate a weapon as wounding may well take away even the most formidable combatant’s capabilities of defeating the enemy or even saving their own life.

Using your brains to outsmart your enemy over getting them rattled, protecting yourself at all times and exploiting proponents/enemies every weakness is a must combined with not letting the effects of impact contact interfere with objective achievement if it is inside your human capabilities to do so.

The mentally tough prepared and willing will feel more pain after the actions on than they ever would during the actions on as there is no time for looking at or licking your wounds.

Anything that interferes with your ability and capabilities to defeat your enemy affects your chances of defeating that enemy.

A fraction of a second of hesitation is all that takes to be stopped or taken out by a highly skilled aggressor.

Confidence and competency is developed by hard heavy and hostile mil close combat training regimes or in high level heavy contact training/competition and in the street or on the battlefield.

Fear, pain and pressure are the realities of tough competition and deadly close quarters actions on that must be stopped, reduced or endured and overcome if it is victory over defeat that is your objective.

Training, competing and operating in the real world of hard knocks where it’s winning or losing and where losing can be fatal requires the individual to be uncompromising and unwilling to give into the effects of close quarters actions on if there is a breath left in them to defeat the enemy.

In conclusion be a practical realist and identify what works and what will not, understand your mental toughness level and get hands on experience from those that have been there and done that with the quals to back it up to best arm you with proven capabilities.

Never settle for less than the best in arming yourself with capabilities and train hard to be your very best WAR (WILLING ABLE READY). Keep current capable and ahead of threats and trends. Never give in to effects of threats and never give up in your efforts to stop your aggressor in their tracks.