 It's also very good defensive because it's enclosed you can cut and dig it's really gonna fuck shit up But I like it too because I can use it in a closed grip And then just go out go to the don't buy the ones that like the knife mall mart shit. That's all garbage stuff I think that's so that's 10 20 dollars and a lot of the locks too. That's that's a whole other talk The locks there's lock backs or the locks on the outside There's ones with outlocks like the swiss army knives and there's ones with the liner lock where it's inside I like the liner locks, but you got to be careful because a lot of those are loose So I like frame locks where it's actually part of the handle the whole handle pops over the one I had last night So when you're gripping on to it, you actually reinforce the locking mechanism because you don't want to close on you Other questions If you can't tell I'm very passionate knowledgeable about this stuff I studied it for fucking years and I joke that I even know more about this stuff than I do pick up I'm pretty good at pickup Um, I really appreciate this talk and uh, but one of my friends he recently got mugged and he used the tactic He wrote on the internet. It's called like I mean just He just um, he just got mugged and what no, but yeah, my friend got mugged and he used this Like the crazy tactic the robber was kind of crazy He was drunker or higher on something But he pretended to be even more like crazy and just started like Self hurt like just started hurting himself your friend in yeah And then the guy was like you just you just like completely threw him off balance and Kind of like I don't want to mess with this guy. He seems really more like even more fucked up or something What have you had an experience with like random encounters like that or? I was gonna say for what your friend doing it's glad that it worked. So it's hard for me One of my problems is that I never like critiquing or monday morning Monday morning quarterbacking anything that worked right But my philosophy is instead of me like biting myself and going ah and pissing my pants or like uh homer simpson He goes cry like a girl and play dead scream you have hemophilia. Yeah, and he goes then when he turns around It's back kicking time That's not my philosophy So someone does it i'm aware of my surroundings first so I never even let it get to that point And I have had to drop my gun down once I have pulled my knife out before I have pulled my flashlight out and shine it So even that someone starts getting close it's out and i'm like But it's also just being aware of your surroundings There's one story where I was at the bar with the chick if you guys go to my website There's my little opt-in thing where you put in your email and there's this 30 minute interview I have with the chick. It's this hot asian chick. I picked up why she was working It's funny She's a she worked in an apartment complex and I had her start calling around other places Because I didn't want to live there But I had her hunt out places for me and then she was calling me going go here Go here and then we went out to dinner that night. She paid. It was pretty cool But anyways, we were at a bar and she actually got into the stuff She'd helped me teach when we'd go out. She was like a wing girl And um, we're at a bar one night and all of a sudden the bouncers come running in Like because by the door there's outside and they all go running in and I saw it We're at the table and she's in the middle of the story and I'm just coming level yellow I see him go running in that got my attention now. I'm in orange and I was like You know what because I know this place. I know the layout. This is like the exit right by us We're at this table right by it. So all the bouncers had to go running in. I was like, you know what? Stop talking for a second. Let's get up and move and she's like, well, let me finish my story I was like, no, let's get up and we got up We walked about 10 feet away and then all of a sudden five bouncers come bringing this and they're all big They bring out this fucking giant like ASU football player and he's freaking out and fighting drunk Boom right into the table that we were sitting at everything goes flying They end up going outside and she's sitting there and she goes, how the fuck did you know that was going to happen? I was like, I just saw the bouncers go running in so I figured There's probably a fight and I didn't want to be by the one door when they're dragging people out because it's always what they want to do If you watched roadhouse, they always want to drag the guy out the cooler Love that movie except for the rip throat at the end. That doesn't work in real life Anyways, uh, so if I'm doing that I went off on a tangent But anyways if I'm doing that I'm aware my surroundings first. That's number one Second someone starts coming up to me. Well, I usually have something so even beforehand I might have it out in my hand ready, but Freaking someone out fucking with their head They're looking for someone who's in level white an easy target So if you do anything to throw that off and you're no longer being he's going to be an easy mark an easy victim A lot of times that's all it takes screaming running whatever But in my situation someone starts coming up to me give me your money or whatever Hey, man, I don't want any trouble And I would even try to like get my wallet out first and maybe like toss it on the ground or do something because 50 bucks or whatever I got on me right now It's not worth a chance of me anything happening But maybe when he's reaching for it I'll pull out my knife or if he has something else and then I reach down I'm able to grab my gun or if I have it and pull it out But even then I could still shoot him I could shoot him three times and he could pull out his gun and get one shot off and That could kill me instantly and he could live right so you never want to bet on anything but Being aware of your surroundings is number one never be in those situations Okay, and one last add on to that and going along with that you think needles will be a Efficient deterrent like if you had like a needle full of just blood and you hadn't pretend like you had aids or some crazy shit I'm like even there'd be like I mean that's just kind of like unexpected and just Why carry a needle in your pocket where you have to They're not gonna have Like the pepper spray and whatever so she's gonna reach into her purse pull out the needle pull out the hypodermic that she carries everywhere That's gonna be filled with it's gonna be filled with Kool-Aid She's gonna pop the thing and go i'll give you my fucking aids Yeah, like the skill set for me to pull out pepper spray is like probably less Complicated than this because she's probably not drilling it so she's not used to pulling out the needle But also too if i'm gonna have to carry something why not carry something that would actually work Why waste this time the space the money any of that stuff having something that's not really gonna work And also too this is also a moral choice too And I worked at our range and there's there was a couple suicides at our gun range when I was there And I had to go out and get people off and like the dead dudes laying there and it all matters like how it affects you I have no problem drawing down on someone I have no problem doing whatever I need to do to defend myself and make sure I get home at night Because it's not me going out deciding. I'm gonna kill someone. It's their actions dictating my reaction So if someone's coming to me and causing that level of reaction for me Then I have no problem doing whatever I have to do Especially a lot of times I was doing private lessons at the range We have like a soccer mom come in or something. She's like, I don't know if I could ever shoot someone There's I think there was more questions back behind. Oh, okay She goes, I don't know if I could ever shoot anyone. I was like, oh, do you have a kid? And they go, yeah, I go how old are they five and I was like, okay So if the guy's in the house at night, he has a knife over your kid and you have a gun What are you gonna do? I'll blow his fucking brains out And I was like, right, so you can do that to protect your kid, but you can't do that to protect yourself And then also if you get raped and killed and your kids in the house And they experience that and they possibly get raped afterwards and then they have to grow up without a mom And they're like once you kind of get started getting in that mindset, but to me it's I don't I just always thought this way. I was like, there's no way I'm ever gonna let anyone Fuck with my shit and put me in harm's way No problem But yeah, why why do something half-ass I'm gonna do it do it for real Can you elaborate a little bit on the term udaloupe? I've heard that a few times before I find it really interesting, but I don't quite get it and also How it applies to pick up if it does That's I'm gonna quickly go over it. Maybe on a break we can go a little bit more in depth But I actually haven't So observe orient decide act I've seen a lot of like ebooks and all these brain process things where these guys like come up make up the shit to explain it And this is actually like real science like the guys actually really split like I said He came up with a fucking mathematical equation To show why the mig was better than our jets and why they fucked us up so bad That's insane so When you're in the observe Observation phase you're gathering information from old unfolding circumstances outside information And also you can see how they're all looping back because you're always getting feedback from each step The orientate that's kind of like almost yellow. You're in orange. You're focusing on something and you're drawing from generic genetic heritage Your previous training cultural traditions And this is what I'm teaching pick up a lot of guys are like, oh, we don't talk to girls like we don't do that Where I'm from well here we do so it's totally different, but that's where that's where that information is coming into play So then they're going to their decision phase and they're making a decision or hypothesis And maybe when they get to this decision phase the situation's changed Now they need to loop back and keep going through it until they get to their action phase If you do this enough if someone goes to choke me, I don't have to go through all these steps. You can see it actually Skips because your body gets so good at Perceiving these threats someone goes to choke me from behind. I don't have to go. Oh, someone's checking me What I need to do you instantly I'll start grabbing and tucking my chin because it's just a reaction So I did this I just got so good at like going in rooms and hostage rescue and having to Process all this information very quickly. Otherwise I get shot with stimulations or paintballs and stuff and really fucking hurt Um, I got so good at doing this that when I got in a pickup I'd go out and I'd start perceiving all these things on girls They'd wear a necklace that had a little yin yang symbol and I started or The little namaste kind of thing and I just picked these things up And I just thought like kind of everyone did this stuff because I started getting into guns when I was 19 And I was like, oh, that's what most people do So I just got good at reading the situations and I have people thinking like I'm psychic and stuff But I'm like, well, no, I saw like what you were wearing earlier or you said this and I thought okay Why did they use this word unless they have this job and I read a lot too like I get on the internet Something grabs my attention. I start reading all over the place. I'm always drawing new information in Um, so anyways with this I have seen Robert green artist seduction 48 laws of power 33 strategies war He wrote a blog post about this once it was talking about oolup and colonel john boy But I just recommend getting on it. You can actually pull up He used to do briefings at the military just on this it was like hours and stuff And you can actually just find this stuff for free on the internet It's better than I'm going to say it but what I would recommend is googling ken good ood a cycle And it's called god a second And it was something that was the guy I did the surefire class with and basically he breaks it down Where at the end he goes um the decision and the acting phase is the the easiest It's all the other stuff before that's the hard stuff. So his example is a fighter pilot Getting behind the guy getting your sights locked on him getting in that perfect position That's all the hard stuff hitting the button acting Release in the missile shooting them. That's the easy part. So it's all the other stuff So just kind of it's like nlp when you know the four levels of learning once you understand that stuff It just helps out a lot because you're familiar with it Okay, last question And then I'm also here tomorrow too. I'm gonna teach online game tomorrow So I'll go into pua mode but in between now and then too if you guys have any questions Right like that. So for martial arts, don't try to show me stuff and show me choke holds like that's the only thing It's like up, but anyways go actually obviously through your pua training and The the combat training you've become very aware of your surroundings like it's probably like a natural thing You know where exits are, you know who's wearing this. So what would you recommend as a Training mechanism for us maybe when we're out and about to increase great questions Great question. Actually close your eyes real quick How many people are on the road to you on the left on the left in the same row? There's uh I believe four open your eyes and check Two So that's how you drill it go out to places and actually there was that one movie with a brad pit in Robert redford, I think where he became like a cia spy or whatever they got busted. It was an okay movie There's a good little drill that where he opens the fridge and he closes it and he goes, okay What's in there and he goes starts landing he goes? Oh, there's milk and he's like, what's the due date? He goes it expired last week and it was like literally like that That's those kind of things just going into an area and I do this for demos now that I had you do it It's kind of cheating if I close my eyes and go, okay, you were in a black hoodie There's two guys here. He has facial hair. He's wearing a green shirt Someone just walked out of the building um Irmin who's the announcer is wearing a black button-up shirt black t-shirt dark slacks loafers Anthony's wearing his uh polo shirt Stripe pants brown five-toed Vibram shoes So that's just me being aware of all those things. I'm just processing that information animal earlier red shirt We were talking about so just things like that just being aware of it But a lot of times like I'm just absorbing and I'm not even aware of it But you got to start programming yourself to do that So as you go out do that with games and when I'd go out with martial artists guys That's what we do we go close your eyes How many people are the table behind you and you just do little things like that Then you start picking things up and you're just aware of more things and like you said always being aware of your surroundings Close your eyes. Where are the two exits here? How many steps are there on the bench? What uh, how many slideshows did I have how many slides did I have? Another thing I did in that surefire class. He'd do demos where he would go over here talk for a second And he'd come back and you go, okay. How long did that take for me to do that just now? Tell me Yeah, that walked right here. How long did it take? Okay, see actually it was probably like one thousand one thousand two thousand three Thousand four pretty close But the thing is no one ever thinks like one point two seconds Because of the way our minds and brains work. We always try to like keep things simple So you don't ever try to get really focused So it's thinking like oh this guy's maybe taller than me. You don't know Well, how tall try to be very specific with it and just being aware of that's like step one then testing yourself But we'd do that and just drill it and go, okay. How many guys behind you when I go out? I'm always looking like I saw the knife yesterday And the back pocket your back right pocket. It was a silver Clip and there's some holes in it and it was a green handle and I said, oh what kind of knife is it? I thought it was a sever tech. He said it was a saw. He pulled it out. There's a thumb stud on it Sog it's silver. It's a clip point blade And I saw it last night for like two seconds and I can just remember that So just practicing your brain gets used to doing this But because I was already good at this beforehand Then once I got in a pickup And that's why a couple months later after I met style then I was working for him and then For four or five years. I was like his head coach and all that stuff So that helped Cool. We go with the questions All right guys, hope you guys enjoyed the gun talk. Obviously you can tell I'm very passionate about it So if you guys have any more questions, I'm here till tomorrow afternoon. Happy to help as much as I can. Thank you