I avoid coaching “the fight” when it comes to urban survival, as the fight is often a many-sided trap baited by predators, and is also worse than pointless, for fighting compromises your survival and serves no purpose other than to put you at odds with the most powerful force in human history—The State.

Think about it:

1. Fighting is a voluntary act of violence, a ritual contest, that is never-the-less illegal. It is not a survival practice, but an exercise in stupidity.

2. Predators will often start—or have a third party start—a verbal confrontation with you, a confrontation that looks like it has the ear marks of a potential fight, only to get you obsessing over avoiding or ramping up for, the fight while they set up the attack.

3. Fights that are sought by today’s youth merely amount to amateur filmmaking with you as the unpaid stunt person. And, if for some reason you prevail, the film could be used as evidence against you!

4. When criminals who attack, are, on rare occasions, arrested, they will claim to have been involved in a simple fight, a physical disagreement which is typically only concerned with damages by the time it gets to court, and in which witnesses weigh heavily. So, by training to fight—rather than to deter, counterattack and attack—you are permitting yourself to sink into the sticky lie of aggression that binds us to this morass of brutally sissy iniquity that is civilization.

Check out the Aggression Trajectory via the link below, keeping in mind that the most dangerous actors—there is no reason why this could not, or should not, include you—will jump the confrontational track and begin operating on the predatory scale at any time.