We all love watching a good ole fashioned fist fight from the comfort of our own homes in which our keyboards provide all the safety we could ever imagine however; to find one that is entertaining, well filmed, and where the combatants have quality and adequate skills is quite the rarity. In fact, I would venture to argue that a well filmed, well documented, entertaining and compelling street fighting video could be considered the unicorn of street fighting videos.

What we have below is just such footage; the so-called unicorn of street fight videos. I wasn’t sure if I was watching a preview for a movie or footage of an actual event. What is most prominently noticed is the use of what cinematographers and photographers refer to as depth of field or effective focus range. For those like me who have no idea what that means it is basically this: the subject of interest is seen incredibly clearly while everything else appears blurry providing a very high quality image. The level of clarity and production of the video below is second to none.

The fight which we witness takes place on Austin’s famous 6th street and starts out with the usual trash talking and the threat of violence. This escalates to a situation where we have an actual one on one fight that is pretty entertaining in and of itself but then things get really interesting.

In what psychologists describe as the mob mentality, which occurs when people noticeably lower their moral or ethical values and/or engage in activities they normally wouldn’t due to the presence of a large crowd, we witness an all-out brawl.

Jacob C. Stevens is a lifelong athlete and cerebral martial arts enthusiast who is also skilled in the art of linguistic manipulation, his published work, Afterthoughts and Handgrenades, can be found here…