UFC Hall of Famer Bas Rutten knows a thing or two about street fighting and likewise self defense. He is famous not only for his amazing MMA career which saw him claim the UFC Heavyweight title, but also an entertaining series of street fighting tutorials which teach the viewer how to stay safe in a variety of self defense scenarios.
Much in the same is this video clip from Fuel TV’s ‘Punk Payback with Bas Rutten’ where Rutten demonstrates what to do in the dire situation where you are faced with a gun.
Firstly, Rutten goes over that it’s imperative to be within arms reach of the gun if you hope to have a chance. Also you have to make sure you are not in the line of fire which is pretty self explanatory and repeated by many other self defense experts out there.
Now once you able to get a hold of the gun it is crucial that you don’t let go. From there you can look to strike the opponent but ultimately Rutten says you want to take that gun away.
This is done by grabbing the bottom of the handle while simultaneously holding the barrel (pointed away from you or others!) and then simply prying it away.
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ABOUT BAS RUTTEN
Sebastiaan “Bas” Rutten (born 24 February 1965) is a Dutch retired mixed martial artist, kickboxer and professional wrestler. He was a UFC Heavyweight Champion, a three-time King of Pancrase world champion, and finished his career on a 22 fight unbeaten streak (21 wins, 1 draw). FightMetric wrote this when Rutten was inducted into the UFC Hall Of Fame: “FightMetric, the official statistics provider for the UFC, ran the numbers on Rutten’s career. They back up the Dutchman’s inclusion into the UFC Hall of Fame and then some. In the 4-hours, 27-minutes and 8-seconds he spent as a pro fighter, Rutten scored 13 knockdowns without getting dropped himself, his significant strike accuracy was 70.6%, the highest FightMetric has ever recorded, attempted a record 53 submissions and successfully swept his opponents a record 46 times.” From 2007–2016, Rutten was the co-host of Inside MMA on AXS TV. [Source: Wiki]
