THE MOMENT WHERE FIGHT TO DEATH IS YOUR ONLY MEANS OF SURVIVAL

Okay, this is not a martial art blog but a military one, but anything goes here as long as it is military related. Yeah I repeat martial art is related to the military, you should know that in courses Special Forces take and even the regular force.

However martial art is not just for men of war, it’s for everybody who values it. It’s been practiced all over the world. Many schools in China, India and mostly America the best market for the art and then few in my country here Nigeria. Increasing Terrorist attack and insecurity is causing people to take martial art classes. There are many martial artist masters but am not fortunate to be a master, many YouTube videos have provided martial art master to portray their technique more effective than their counterparts, without me digressing too much, Terrorist attack and mass shooting is getting more alarming even to the most unlikely countries where no one believe could happen .Self-defense and security consciousness is needed for every individual to prepare for the worst. In this article I want to treat an aspect that has to do with what to do in a close encounter with the attacker and as for the title above:  

What is the right moment where fight to death is the only means of survival or an advantage. Answer: when all odds are against you.

1.       PRETENDING TO BE DEAD: This art of defense is good, cunning and popular. effective if well played, funny enough some martial artist implore people to pretend to be dead amidst other dead bodies in a mass shooting or kidnapping spree but how good is that. In the Al-Noor terrorist attack in New Zealand attack, if you were able to watch the live video before the social media start deleting them, you will realize this technique doesn’t work in this scenario, the attacker (Breton Tarrant) was a mad man so over determined that he went into the AL Noor mosque twice to shoot all the dead bodies he once killed; such a heartless man. Anyone who applied the law of pretending to die is indirectly making the pretense a reality because Tarrant will sure come back after a round of shooting to shoot the dead bodies. The only art possible there is fighting to death; unfortunately the attack came as a surprise because no one in the mosque or nobody in Zealand expects a terrorist attack including me. The attack was too fast for any hero to think and rise, everyone was crippled with fear.

 However nobody is in any position to criticize any of the victims for not devising a means to fight back simply because being you are not there to witness the horrific event that can make you mess up your trousers.

Kudos to that guy at Linwood Mosque, he threw something at the attacker, he deserve a medal honor.

The only solution depends on the situation, if the scenario provide for pretense especially if the goal of the mass shooter is to kill as many as possible which is not to come and check whether any survived.so the chance of pretense is good here, but as I said earlier, am not a master, access your situation first.

2.       FIGHTING BACK OR SUICIDAL ATTACK: okay how about fighting back, if I say it depends on your martial art skills, that will be bad because fear can make a martial art lesson disappear in seconds, if I say it depends on your martial art or combat experience, then I may be right, however let consider those with no martial art training. What should they do.

Remembering the 9/11 attack in the USA, one of the planes (flight 93) hijacked heading towards a particular target didn’t go well as expected by the hijackers, why? The passengers knew in through their phones that that morning, Flights 11 and 175 had already crashed into the World Trade Center and Flight 77 was within 9 minutes of striking the Pentagon therefore flight 93 passengers revolted against the hijackers, although they couldn’t save themselves but they were able to give the hijackers a tough time controlling the plane effectively to its target. Out of panic of being run over by the revolting passengers, the hijackers crash-landed the plane into a field in  stone creek Pennsylvania. The act of the passengers made them became heroes.

Another example, in the Ancient Yoruba Kingdom in Nigeria, Warriors and Kings whenever they become betrayed and sold-out by somebody close to them, although dying, stabbed, poisoned, shot they make sure they finish up the traitor and then give up.

That’s the warrior mentality you should have in critical situation, and you may feel like what if I die, also think of what if you win. However this just an advice ascertain the situation and don’t forget the S.E.R.E survival Evasion Resistance and Escape. I remain Afolabi Micheal.

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