 What's up welcome guys Steve Maeda with the TSL podcast and this is a podcast that's a clip from Ed Akin from fight fast and flea and man We get pretty real in it the entire interview with Ed is actually two hours This is just a short under ten minute clip But man what we talk about here is actually his experience with learning under Paul Vunek the seal team six trainer In Virginia Beach who went on to be one of the best street fighting tactical fighters of all time And you know, I'm just gonna warn you we hear Ed talk about some really intense things about how he developed that true killer Instinct of when you're put in a position where it's truly life or death and you have to make that decision to turn it on to fight to end it and Take it to that next level. You know one of the reasons why we bring you podcasts like this at TSL Is because we always hear the story of the warrior We always hear the story of the hero, but to truly be that man that is responsible enough to to take that and evolves to become That man with that mentality there's a heavy heavy responsibility and experience that comes with it This is what it's about Check out Ed Akin fight fast and flea comm awesome stuff He's also got a 21 convention speech and also don't forget go to the sexual life calm better your life sign up for the newsletter Man, it's just gonna change you as a man well, I was fortunate to to train with lunatic at a time where he was just done with his his stint of Teaching seal team six and so, you know, you have to imagine these guys were actually not only using it You know in the field that they were going out in the bars and perfecting it in Virginia Beach There's a lot of you know a lot of field testing there And so Even from the time where he went in and he was fighting before that to the time where he came out It evolved and evolved because basically this so these are guys who are saying look I tried this this and this are actually experiencing it and getting the feedback. That's how you that's how you do You have to let reality be your your feedback mechanism It can't just be conjecture and it can't just be like a couple sparring matches at some point You've got to Simulate it as as hardcore as you can and that's not for everybody, but if you're serious about You know, I was serious about because I used to get my ass beat every day I was like, no, I'm gonna fucking learn how to fight. I've got to do this because I left such a You know a damage in my self-image. I was like, no, I'm gonna fucking go back I'm gonna find those guys and we'll beat the fuck out of it But I'm gonna know what I'm doing before I do that, right? You know, it took me a long time that to turn the tide basically of fighting and so You know, I I did it out of a need of basically get my ass kicked every day And so I would go and learn this shitty karate and then what happens is You know, you you take a break from from getting beat up You're kind of quiet but in the you know at night you're begging your mom take me in this class because you want to go back You want to you want to redeem yourself? And so what happens is you you go and then you try your karate and then your ass beating is Is ten times worse because now they're pissed that you're trying some some karate shit on them And so it took me a long time You know, it's like and you throw that cake there. Oh, what this is new a fucker really tried to karate kick I'm gonna beat your ass, you know and So it's not It took a lot of those stories. Yeah, but there was a point so, you know by time I had trained in a lot of different stuff before I found Lunak and There was a period where You know, I was getting a fight still and at this time He was pretty much telling me to do that because that's how you that's how you learn and he always told me he's like look don't you know You know the guys that you're getting you're fighting now aren't the real guys He goes you can't you can't train for them. They're fucking nothing He's like, you know, you're smaller guy at your skinnier But you know, these aren't the guys that you're trained for you have to train for the guy who spent his life in prison He's got you in an alley. He's gonna fucking rape you. He's gonna kill you and rape your courts He's like you have to have that in your head and he's you know, he's like until you get that in your mind You're deadly serious and you can train yourself to where when you make that entry You're trying your you have that in the back of your mind where I've got to take this guy I was gonna fuck my my eye socket, right? That's that's when I when I took that the heart I really said okay when because there's a strategy you don't just go her banshee You've got to keep a cool head in a street fight when you're in long range Even though you don't have five minutes you've got to relax You've got to keep your peripheral vision open because that's where danger comes from right if you if you're starting in a longer distance You've got to relax. You've got to do your pot shotting because you know We always equated it to that six foot five three hundred twenty pound dude Who's fucking killed people on a daily basis in prison? So you don't want to rush in and you don't want to change, you know exchange blows with that guy One shot from him will kill you so in order for me to take that guy out I've got to get in with my heavy tools, which are the head butts knees and elbows and I want to get in on skate So there is strategy involved, but it's a little bit different But once you make that commitment to go and do this you've got to go a hundred percent That's where you've got to develop your tools to where you know We give you a concussion through the fucking helmet because we spent years just like that scared image and all the adrenaline It comes out in that one technique So when I took that to heart and then I really started putting the emotional content into my into my entries and Really taking it like just a hundred percent of yourself like I'm giving all or nothing if I fail I'm going to die So if you have that inside of you, which is great for for anything and you're able to turn that on and then let's say your Your past fucks up you're able to turn it back off when I was able to do that What I saw was in my fights They didn't last but but a couple seconds when the moment I hit them the first time the guys dropped Whereas before they were being exchanged there would be me hitting them. They're throwing off I'd get hit a couple times, you know, maybe I'd have to get out of there But there was a there was a changing point where there was no damage taken on my part because the guys were out They were just that that emotional Part of me was switched on and at that same time I'd say you blackout You don't you don't remember it and you come back to and the guys on the ground You're like, all right. Yeah there so it's it's a it's the mental side of where you can really tap into that And I think it was you know to teach somebody how to do it you can simulate it But you've got to you got to get somebody who who gets in your head in a way like Vunak was very good at that To to really pull that serious image out of you to where look man This is this is all or nothing and you have to treat it as all or nothing If it's not if you're not a hundred percent committed get the fuck out of here Don't waste your time because you're gonna get killed in the alley and you have to and I was already serious about it But I was never that serious to where like I don't give fuck if I kill this guy when I make my entry I am taking him out and that's that's what you have to you have to come the terms with So it's it was at that point that my fights changed too like that just You know when that happened and I took the guys out as the guys got bigger. They dropped just as fast So I started proving to myself like holy shit This stuff is for real because I'm I'm getting in worse and worse situations But I'm coming out unscathed and there you know there were times where I should have been You know fucking raped in a back alley and it saved my ass So like I said some pretty intense stuff there But we need to have that understanding and that reality of those senses of masculinity those senses of being a human being and being in those situations and In transcending to that different spot that different mentality of fighting and intensity that ed is talking about Check out his site fight fast and flee sign up on the newsletter get his product. It's actually really good There's a little bit of me actually featured in there and Don't forget go to the sexual life.com better your life This is about evolving you as a person and making that choice to move in the direction That you are living in the best life possible resources articles tons of stuff there to help you out sign up on the newsletter and uh Let's live that social dynamic to be the better man