#92: Real World Self Defense w/ Tim Larkin
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2016
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Tim Larkin is the world's leader in self defense and has worked with some of the most lethal humans on the planet, from Navy SEALs and military special forces to prison inmates and gang members.
Today, he is here to transform your views on self-defense, violence, and martial arts training.
We discuss...
0:36: Tim tells his story of hanging with Navy SEALs and changing career paths into self protection
6:22: Tim talks about the transition to hand-to-hand combat in the U.S. military and his first exposure to the training style he would study for the rest of his life
17:48: The core principles of Tim’s Target Focus Training
20:18: The most important end goal in a self-defense situation
25:59: What types of aggression can you avoid and which ones do you have to get involved in?
27:23: How to prepare for the unknown aspects of self-defense
28:58: The difference between real violence and combat sports
29:51: “I need you learning how to tear apart the human body in a methodical way”
32:21: Why a lack of training makes people more violent
36:56: Why UFC and MMA don’t prepare you for real world situations
40:03: Self defense lessons from prison inmates and the world’s most dangerous gang members
48:49: What are the warnings signs of violence?
51:14: Tim gives a personal example how he handles potentially violent situations
54:10: “The 3 Day Test” and how you can decide whether or not to engage in an aggression
55:20: “I treat everyone like they are 6 seconds away from going on a shooting spree”
58:09: Why women MUST train in self defense
1:01:25: What happened when Tony Robbins went through Tim’s courses
1:05:10: Tim talks meditation, daily habits for success, and his favorite books
1:12:59: What lessons has Tim learned in building his own business?
1:15:45: Tim walks you through his day to day life and long term goals
For more from Tim, check out his website at www.TimLarkin.com
Learn more about his Target Focus Training at http://www.targetfocustraining.com/
Finally, you can find him on Twitter and Instagram @TFTTimLarkin
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the J Farugia Show. |
| 0:06.0 | Build your body, strengthen your mind, |
| 0:11.0 | optimize your life. |
| 0:13.0 | All right guys I am super excited today to talk to world-renowned self-protection |
| 0:25.6 | specialist Tim Larkin. Tim it's been a long time in trying to get you on the |
| 0:29.2 | show. I'm excited to have you. Thanks for being here. Hey, thanks so much for having me, man. |
| 0:33.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 0:34.4 | So for the listeners who may not have heard of you, could you explain a little bit, |
| 0:37.5 | give some of your background, your story, |
| 0:39.1 | and how you got to where you are today? |
| 0:41.4 | Yeah, I'm a guy who basically came into this business. I was a young kid, |
| 0:49.8 | always interested in combat sports martial arts. My grandfather was a big boxer early on in my life. |
| 0:55.4 | I got involved in that. |
| 0:58.1 | Went in with the idea that I was going to go in the Navy, |
| 1:00.7 | I'm a Navy brat, and I got introduced to the SEAL teams when I was about 11 years old through a friend of my father's and thought that was awesome. |
| 1:10.0 | And we lived actually in Coronado. My dad was a officer and so I learned everything there was to know about the seal teams, hung out at the training base, learned all the ins and outs of how to get through training, thought that was awesome. |
| 1:22.0 | Went to go do that. and outs of how to get through training, thought that was awesome. |
| 1:23.0 | I went to go do that and my life changed about a couple weeks before graduation. |
| 1:28.6 | I got involved in a really minor diving accident where for the first time in my life I had an injury happened to me that I couldn't |
| 1:36.7 | gut out I couldn't I couldn't overcome it here I was I was bigger faster and stronger I was a number one guy in my class I was I was bigger faster and stronger. I was a number one guy in my class. I was class officer. I was going for what they were going to call the anchor man. It was a big deal. I got first selection of the team I wanted to go to literally. I'm weeks away from this and my ear gets burst |
| 1:55.1 | underwater I go into I go into vertigo and within you know 24 hours my life is |
| 2:02.1 | completely changed you know I'm still in the Navy but |
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