 And so in order to realistically answer that question and why should you it's a pretty basic reason the first reason is pretty it's a no-brainer right and the first reason is this it's survival right the idea is if you as a man are going to be an extreme violent situation right pretty simple you want to be able to go home at night and take your body with you right Maslow's hierarchy of needs what's a first level is like physiological so I think taking your body home with you is pretty physiological so that's pretty basic right that's a no-brainer is like hey if some if you walk out of here today and somebody sticks a gun in your face or somebody attacks you you want to be able to go home at night And so this gets to our first concept in order to really say okay well how how do we need to prepare for that right we have to do the first thing and this is a great great thing that most people don't do they think they do it but they don't and we have to analyze reality right we got to look at what what's really happens how does shit go down in the street how does How you know somebody breaks in your house how is that scenario likely to unfold right and and what are what types of scenarios do you as a man walking around in the world do you have a chance of getting into getting involved with even if you're trying to avoid it sometimes bad things happen right and so we have to analyze reality we don't want to we don't want to guess or pontificate as to what we think is going to happen or what somebody told us is going to happen we have to investigate reality and what we find is that when bad things occur when extreme violence occurs it can happen at any number of ways it's it's you know so so we kind of had a quandary we're kind of at a roadblock because how do you prepare for the unexpected right how do you prepare for something that can unfold in an infinite number of ways right so we're going to get there and I'm going to give you a set of principles we're not going to get a system but we're going to give you a set of principles and concepts of how to break that down and how to look at things differently and this concept right here can easily transfer over into other areas right how many of the best marketers do what do they do they analyze markets they see what the market wants but how many companies create products or somebody has a great idea for a product they create the product they put a bunch of time and effort and marketing into it they release it nobody buys it because they didn't analyze reality so even though it's a pretty simple concept how many people actually follow it and if we're talking about the seriousness of surviving something really bad happening then we've got to start with analyzing reality so how do we do that well when it comes to violence we have we live in the information age so we have hundreds of thousands of hours of actual fights that we can go watch right we now have video of cage matches where we actually get to see what techniques work and what don't in a pressure situation we get actual violent crimes we can see mass attacks the knockout game we can see flashmiles we can see rioting not that you want to look at all that stuff but you want to be prepared to see how different elements and things come together when it comes to violence because that's the first thing is we analyze reality but we don't want to stop there we have to use reality as our feedback right and that's the second concept really we're still on the first reason but we're going to and I'm going to spend more time on the survival setup because what I'm doing is giving you a framework of training and it's through the training that's actually going to change you physiologically right it's not you're not going to be buff or all this stuff you will if you do certain strength training it's not what I'm talking about I'm talking about your filters and the way you walk through the world and you carry yourself right it will change you but we need to use reality as your feedback mechanism right extremely important especially when we're dealing with violence because people get caught in their paradigms and people get caught in systems and their stylized way of being right this is a lot of the concepts I'm giving you come directly from Bruce Lee he was a pioneer and a master and a philosopher but using reality as a feedback a lot of people will get caught in their paradigms because they also need to have a proper outlook and a proper approach to deal with their context and our context is extreme violence so what do I mean by that okay well we have a good idea of how violence can unfold and unfold in any number of ways right so now we can say okay well let's look at reality and let's look at some solutions so some of the solutions are well let's look at cage fighters those guys are pretty tough right so we look at MMA and there was a fight in Vegas not that long ago like just this last month and a fighter after his fight went out to the bars in Vegas and he ended up getting an altercation now he was a smaller guy I think he fights at 155 but he ended up getting a fight with this big dude and just as he was telling the guy who was saying Google me bitch I'm a fighter the guy clocked him right and hit him hard now to his you know he's a trained fighter he's a really tough guy so he took the punch right and what did he do well he did a pretty smart thing as he went for a double leg because if you know anything about jujitsu or if he has superior grappling you get the guy on the ground you can beat a bigger opponent not that you can't beat them standing but what happened was he was in a bar and there were multiple people there and so when he went for his takedown somebody else jumped in and grabbed him and pulled him off and then a bunch of people got into the fray right luckily it got broken up but he's even more lucky that the guy's friends didn't have a gun a knife hit him in the head with a chair so into business and being the better expression of yourself his first degree black belt under william van dery he also has trained with paul voonak certified jkd instructor the list goes on and on mr ed aiken what's up man alright alright so this is my second time at the 21 convention where it's limited right brazilian jujitsu is great for what ground fighting right there's there's a few things standing up and they do train against the other ranges but for all intents and purposes it's a ground fighting art right they don't last time I was in jujitsu we did not wrestle with a knife right some places do but that's where you can start to look and say okay where where is my system where is my what I'm relying on where is it limited and you but you're still communicating and expressing yourself and if you're abstract enough to kind of see what you know what the correlations is then you by changing one area of your life you change the others right and and what we find is that we find ourselves you