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As my old sensei used to tell us - "The best defence is to not be there when the shit goes down".
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On this note, I had the extreme fortune to train with a Russian exchange student by the name of Dmitri (I won't try to spell his last name) for a couple of sessions in my old Sombo group. I say fortune because Dmitri was Spetnaz trained and damned good at Sombo.
He related a number of different stories, but one was pertinent to this discussion. On his first day at the Spetnaz HtH school, the first thing that happened off the buss was a 15km run. At the end, the instructor informed the group that they'd just had their first and most important lesson in HtH. Heasked the group if they could explain what that lesson was, and if anyone could, he'd graduate them from the school on the spot. When no one answered, the instructor explained that the first rule of HtH is not to get into it in the first place. The best unarmed fight is one that you can run away from.
Dmitri also said that they did a LOT of running in that course =)
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