Real-World Self-Defense: From Eye Jabs to Car Fights and Public Transport Attacks | Ep. 272 | Pt. 3
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And so from that point, it's very clearly a fork in the road if you elevate it to yelling back up forcefully. |
| 0:07.3 | It's either that solved the problem and he's like, holy shit, I didn't mean to, you know, or it's it's fucking go time and now it's a whole different scenario. |
| 0:15.4 | Maybe, maybe not. |
| 0:16.6 | Again, it's really, we like in course work getting into the weeds, goes back to my background, |
| 0:26.4 | getting into the weeds of ambiguity, right? |
| 0:28.7 | And really, really, really driving decision making with tangible physical drill. |
| 0:35.5 | You know, we do a lot of that. We have the patrons just feed each other. |
| 0:41.0 | We'll script them and have them deal with ambiguous approaches, that kind of thing. |
| 0:45.8 | You know, CCW guys generally, compared to like other populations, average people who go about the world armed, they as a population generally are fitter and they shoot better than law enforcement. |
| 1:02.4 | They do as a population. |
| 1:04.2 | People that are into training and carry guns who are regular people, they're pretty switched on as a population. |
| 1:15.6 | One thing I think law enforcement does better than any other population is manage ambiguity |
| 1:20.6 | and chaos while carrying a gun. |
| 1:23.6 | And because that's one of the things they do. |
| 1:25.6 | They do with such a wide swath of the population and so many people just don't have |
| 1:31.3 | those those reference points of life experiences. |
| 1:35.3 | So I think we really try and model at least social literacy and we do very immersive, full-spectrum experiential training |
| 1:56.0 | that a CCW guy may solve that problem with a well-placed word or a well-placed shot. |
| 2:08.7 | And both in a given moment where it's appropriate are equally potent. |
| 2:13.5 | Right. |
| 2:14.4 | So with that, you know, so there's kind of two camps here, I would say there's the law enforcement aspect, which, while there's a ton of parallels, is very specific and different to the average population that if, you know, for the listener, there's a lot of law enforcement that listen, but in kind of trying to provide a takeaway for the listener slash viewer, |
| 2:36.5 | I would love to hear kind of the, those same types of recommendations for, you know, |
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