One question that begs to be asked, especially when someone encounters a situation in which there is no way around a physical confrontation, is when should the first punch be thrown? This is an action that could have either dire consequences or immediately resolve the issue.

There are not 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 and to make matters worse the attacker may have a weapon, may have set a trap, or there may even be multiple attackers. It is here that it is absolutely crucial one knows when to escalate the situation into the realm of the physical.

There are those instances when this happens and what happens when you are in a situation that absolutely requires you to fight as well as how you will act can determine the severity of the outcome. 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, be in grave danger…

In the video below, Shane Fazen from Fightips walks us through the appropriate time in which you should strike during an altercation. Keep in mind that these are situations where physical confrontation is absolutely unavoidable and this knowledge should be used at your best discretion with pure intentions.

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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…