92 responses to “True No-Holds-Barred”

1. As much as I hate to say this Age matters! The guy in the shirt was put up against an opponent that was younger
   still in his late 20s while he is 32. but I mean there’s no age limit for getting your ass beat I guess.

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   • Hi Zooka, yes, a big difference in age can make a difference in a fight, but in this fight it ended with the guy sticking his fingers into his opponents eye. Have you ever played with your kids and one of them accidently puts their finger in your eye? You will know how fucking painful that feels, and that’s just from a small kid. So if you’re an older guy and in a fight with a much younger guy, then fingers in his eyes could very well finish the fight for you, and age would not mean a thing.

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2. Easier to watch on mute. Thanks for sharing.

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3. Hi Trav. Gary here. I am enthralled and intrigued by your training videos. I have been practicing your training systems of body movements by implementing an alternative method of movements. I read written music notation, and I mentally apply a “HOWTOFIGHTNOW” body movement to each note. In my youth, I was a well-trained rock&roll drummer. A drummer uses 4 limbs. (2 arms, 2 legs). Each limb plays a different rhythm simultaneously. So, there are 4 moving parts. A drummer learns thousands of combinations of these body movements. Each combination is also written in training books. We practice them at different speeds with a metronome.
   However, in “HOW TOFIGHTNOW” training systems there are many body movements.
   For example:
   2 arms-many punches,
   2 legs-many kicks,
   1 head-many head movements,
   2 shoulders-many pops,
   2 knees-many strikes,
   2 elbows-many punches,
   2 feet-many steps,
   RLRL RLRL…
   LRLR LRLR…
   RLRR LRLL…
   LRLL RLRR…
   RRLL RRLL…
   LLRR LLRR…
   RLLL RLLL…
   LRRR LRRR…
   RLLL LRRR…
   LRRR RLLL…
   etc.etc.etc.etc.
   etc. etc.
   I mentally apply a new “HOWTOFIGHTNOW” body movement to each written note. Then, I play one line of written music with one body movement. Then I play two lines together with two different body movements. Then three lines. Then four lines. Then five. Then six. There are thousands of combinations. Great for coordination and synchronization. Mind boggling stuff. Then I use a metronome to do each written combination at many different speeds.
   Withering, mind boggling, hard, and fun.
   Muhammed Ali performed to music. Smile.

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   • This warrants a demo, my friend! We demand video!

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4. This is the way MMA should be-no gloves, real fighting, no rules. Add in biting, pulling hair, grabbing nuts, eye gouging, hell, leave a segment of chain, a 2″x4″ board, a piece of pipe, in one corner an easily excitable Rottweiler dog and in the other corner a fragile glass terrarium with a couple of rattlesnakes.

   Let’s see some REAL fighting, see who’s REALLY tough! Put in elevation changes and an old car on blocks!

   “I’m tough, look at me. I’m a MMA fighter.” “Oh yeah? Step into ‘The Alley’. Ur gonna have a real fight on the loading dock behind this grocery store in Philadelphia. Your opponent is weighs 30 lbs less than u, he’s 6″ shorter, but he’s HIV+, high on meth, his Levi’s are soaked in his own urine, and he has a 2′ segment of barbed wire wrapped around his left hand, and we told him u were the one who got him falsely fired 3 months ago. Let’s see how tough u really are.”

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   • What you just described is the actual plot to “No Holds Barred”.

     We have come full circle.

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5. An eye for an eye?

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6. Que locura

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7. In reality, a few quick well-placed flicks to the eye are enough to start the eye closing up and tearing up making it harder for the person to fight without actually doing permanent damage associated with actual eye gauging. A punch to the eye tends to miss this effect as it tends to hit the surrounding eye socket more than the softer tissues closer to the eye and does not engage the tear ducts. Flicks of this sort can be done safer from the standing position making it harder for people to take you down as well. Adding Iron Palm training makes it so those flicks become like steel rods when striking to the face, ribs, throat etc… And those types of super quick strikes, plus sweeps, quick takedowns, and the ability to avoid and outmaneuver tend to be what makes (what they say doesn’t work) Traditional martial arts like Shaolin Kung Fu work more than adequate to use as actual defense on the streets, as I have been able to use a few times as needed. But the reality of fighting is anything goes, and anything can happen. As the guy is trying to gouge your eye as we see in this video, you can, in a real fight snap his thump or fingers back even if he’s on top, things can go either way very quickly. So in real life as the Shaolin would say: “It is best to avoid rather than harm, harm rather than maim, maim rather than kill, for all life is precious and once taken can never be given back” Avoidance starts with awareness and readiness or as Ras Al Ghoul said in Batman Begins “Be aware of your surroundings” then next comes the ability to remain calm and aware to changes in body language to be able to de-escalate situations. And finally, if all else fails, the ability and skill to be ruthless until you don’t have to be or if skilled enough to humiliate your opponent so they never try this on anyone again. Sometimes Humiliation is a bigger deterrent to future actions than pain.

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8. Good clip Trav!

   I’d say it wasn’t any worse than a bare-knuckle match as far as violence goes, but some good takeaways for sure.

   The biggest was thought-provoking, because one of the fighters, the one who was winning for most of the match, made the critical mistake of not ending the fight quickly, and also fighting with “honor”. The one who ultimately won by forcing a tap-out was willing to fight “dishonorably” once he was on top and won with an eye gouge.

   The first winner chose not to go that route, and it cost him. The same would happen on the street, and it’s something most people who have never had real street fights would also learn the hard way.

   So the question or opinion I would ask you, is how do people who have only fought in the gym against their friends and training partners get their minds prepared to deal with the kind of violence on the street that they have never been exposed to, but think they are prepared for? They have done jiu-jitsu for years and maybe even boxing or wrestling. I imagine they would also inadvertently resort to their own sense of honor when faced with an adversary who most certainly will NOT return the favor if given the chance.

   I have been watching police activity and other violent encounters regularly for years now to just always keep in my mind that what we see in the gym, is NOT what we will see on the street in a real-life or death situation. This does unfortunately take a toll mentally, but it’s an exercise I feel is important.

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   • Hey Steve,

     So, in Jiu Jitsu, there’s a lot of guys who decide to transition to MMA… and it’s always interesting / funny to see them adjust their game when they realize that they can be punched in many of their favorite positions, and during their favorite move attempts. This, like everything else, gets dialed in with experience.

     I think that the solution is to get some kind of ‘safe experience’ in training eye gouges. For example, even just setting your hand onto someone’s forehead can ‘simulate’ an eye gouge. That hand can’t get left on there for any length of time; it must be dealt with immediately. For shots to the nuts, well, you could just fake them… or try to hit the guy lightly on the hip to simulate a nut shot, or a nut vulnerability.

     It’s really the only solution. If you’re training for self defense, simulate self defense!

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     • I tried to gauge someone’s eyes out in a fight one time. It was me fighting this one guy and his friend was there and I was by myself. I wasn’t going to take the chance of getting double teamed, I was going to take one of them out of the fight. I wasn’t able to get my thumb in his skull past my first knuckle. It’s really harder than you think. After that, they both left. I seen him a couple of months later and he still had his eye so that’s good.

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9. Held the gouge after the tap! Palhares got a half-chub across the globe and had no idea why.

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   • hahaha this tournament was made for Paul Harris!

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10. The floor looks like concrete!! This is some savagery right here.

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