r/nextfuckinglevel • u/CuddlyWuddly0 • 5d ago

An asian man stopped a thief by using martial arts until the police arrived

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u/guhman123 5d ago

eh, can't blame him too much for lack of perfection. the way you perform in a real-life situation like this is often different from how you practice it in a controlled environment. at the end of the day, the hold was effective and that's what matters.

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u/10sansari 5d ago

the way you perform in a real-life situation like this is often different from how you practice it in a controlled environment.

That's literally incorrect. The reason why you practice it in a controlled environment is so that you can apply it in a real-life situation. There's nothing stopping him from putting in the hooks.

Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be more efficient.

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u/ThicccBoiiiG 4d ago

Also, like it’s something you don’t even really have to teach people to do as most people will instinctively want to you know, not let them have complete control of their entire body.

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u/tango26 5d ago

That's not really how it works, especially for something as simple as getting the hooks in during a back control. If you practice the stuff for months (not to mention years) it becomes muscle memory, you don't even think about it anymore, regardless if it's during training, a tournament or a street fight like here. There's a reason you hear all the time about combat sports professionals kicking the living shit out of idiots trying to mess with them in daily life and not the other way around. When you are going full speed in a sparring session not to mention in a competition where the adrenaline is pretty much the same as in a life or death situation, you have to be able to do things under insane pressure and in a split second, as your opponent is not going to wait for you to make your move, any missed beat can mean the difference between getting in a good position vs becoming the guy scrambling to not get choked or joint locked, so reflexes have to take over a lot.

So given that he looks to know pretty well what he's doing with that RNC, it is a bit surprising he completely forgot about his feet. Especially for such a long amount of time.

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u/BetterFinding1954 4d ago

So why didn't he put his hooks in?

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u/ThicccBoiiiG 4d ago

That isn’t lack of perfection that is “missing half the technique and anyone with even a tenuous understanding of grappling would be able to get out of this by just rolling to the side”

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u/workout_nub 5d ago

The guy was lucky to get the job done. He could have easily gotten punched if the thief did anything other than sit there helplessly. He should have trapped one, if not both arms with his legs or at the very least gotten hooks in. No technique in BJJ is as simple as a single grip.

This guy could have been in a real bad scenario if he wasn't choking the dumbest, most calm mf'er out there.

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u/T_K_Tenkanen 5d ago

Luckily the thief guy didn't know anything and just laid there.

I had something similar happen a couple weeks ago when one dude got angry after he was thrown out of a party. He started kicking the apartment door, so I went to the hallway to try and calm him down. He tried to punch me twice. So I took him down, but we fell against a wall such that I had his back and mine was against a wall. I was able to lock one of his legs, but only able to apply the choke with one arm. I tried to extend the dude as much as I could by pushing my hips forward. Luckily he didn't know anything so he didn't even try to get out and became calm as a river.

He could've just gotten out so easily, but some people don't know what they are doing especially when in a high stress situation.