There aren’t many people that leave the house during the day or at night that intend to get into a street fight. There are some that do but those people are few and far between as the average Joe has no intentions of getting into a physical altercation…EVER. Even more rare are the life threatening or life changing situations where a person may have to defend themselves because their life is quite literally at risk.

There are those instances when this happens and what happens when you are in a situation that absolutely requires you to fight for your life? Well, neither www.mixedmartialarts.com nor myself promote street fighting or physical acts of violence in any form or fashion but there are those occasions that arise which simply require that you defend yourself or you may in fact lose your life. These are situations that your safety and your life depends on your knowledge and ability to perform in a self-defense situation…so which is the proper fighting stance for any given situation? In the video description found below we aim to answer this crucial question.

No one fighting stance is better than the other, just like no one martial art is the best! But, you must know how to adjust to any opponent or scenario, so practice them all. In this video, Shane teaches you the Boxing stance, Muay Thai march, Wrestling Sugar Stance, and a street self-defense guarded position.

NOTE: This video is talking about STANCE, not the martial art as a whole or individual fighter!

The grading system is broken up into three different sections: striking, grappling, and the sprawl. Striking is the ability to throw and defend against various attacks from punches, to kicks, to knees, to elbows. Grappling is the art of controlling your opponent, manipulating their movements, or applying submissions like joint locks or chokes. Finally, the sprawl is the ability to avoid a takedown like the double-leg.

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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…