Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single

She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.

You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.

The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.

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How To Fight Part II: The Electric Boogaloo

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1) Do not fight if at all possible. Bow out. Do ANYTHING YOU CAN to avoid fighting because fights are life-threatening situations for both parties, and can involve you in a world of legal hurt if you win.

2) If you have to fight, go absolutely balls out. Don't waste your time with movements that are not dirty fighting, like punches to the face.

Do not ever punch to the head or face with a closed fist. Unless you are a master boxer or karate guy you're likely to hurt your hand or even break it, and that's a fight ender. You might not even faze him but if you're hand's broke you're done.

Moves to use
1) Chinjab. This is like an uppercut, but with your hand open, with the heel of your hand. As you impact with his chin and lever it backwards, insert your fingers into his eyes and claw. Continue this movement backwards as far as you can, your goal being to slam his brainstem into the pavement. For added points, stomp his instep just as the blow lands. This will tack his foot to the ground and effect an ankle break or a takedown at the very least.

2) Ax hand. This is the typical karate chop. It can be delivered at almost any angle, with great speed and force. Even with just arm strength and no body english this can easily break someone's nose. You can throw it inward or backhand. Practice figure 8s with axhands.

Targets for horizontal axhands are
temple
ear
jaw/mastoid
side of neck (google brachial stun)
throat
bridge of nose
jaw line
floating ribs
back of neck
lower spine
kidneys

Best easy target for vertical axehands are primarily collarbone, can be followed up with a neck wrench with the same hand, like you were scooping dough out of a mixing bowl.

Can also be delivered as a hammerfist and probably has more versatility that way, less likely to hurt yourself on bony targets.

3) Rakes/claws. When delivered in quick succession these are incredibly disconcerting, painful and hard to stop. Imagine a jaguar clawing its victim to death. (And by the way, that is your mindset...) Targets are eyes, cheeks, lips, ears. Anything you can, grab and rip. If your finger goes into his mouth, fishhook and jerk one of his cheeks. If your finger or thumb goes into his eyesocket (and it should) scoop out his eye, or hook into the socket and use it as a handle to control his head.

If you are behind him, a double horizontal rake across his face can end up with fingers inside each of his cheeks. Rip as hard as you can. Don't get bit.

The natural followup is a gouge. Put your fingers into both of his eyesockets and hook your thumb under the chin. Fight done.

4) Thai-style roundhouse kick to just above the outside of his knee. This kick takes a little bit of practice on a heavybag or with a partner and thai pads to perfect but it's incredibly nasty and will buckle your leg. It's also quite hard to stop unless you know how. Can also be delivered to the inside of his knee.

The outside above the knee is called the common peroneal nerve and can also be struck with a knee. It's used for torture by US troops.

Thai Kicks

Kicks to the groin? I don't really know if I recommend this because men instinctively protect their groins and your foot will be in grabbing range. Front kick or stomp kick his knee instead and then follow up with a stomp to his instep and close-in horror. Other good targets for front kicks are the tailbone, the back of the knees, the achilles tendons and the spine. If you're behind him use a stomp kick (impact with your heel and bodyweight.)

Also you can kick with the inside edge of your foot kind of like how you kick a hacky-sack. If you hit with this type of kick to anywhere on his leg, follow it up with weight and take him down.

5) Elbows. Elbows can be delivered in any direction. You can throw them like an uppercut to the chin or forehandlike a hook to the temple or jaw. You can also throw backhand elbows or downward elbows with your weight on them. You can use your elbows as two spikes when rushing in and protecting the sides of your head. This is especially good against a range fighter. If you grab any part of his arm, a good tactic is to elbow it while holding onto it.

A reinforced elbow is hooking the back of his neck and slamming your other elbow into the side of his head repeatedly, like hammer and anvil. You can also do this with thumb in his eye.

6) Groinslap. This is good when angling by him; step forward at a 45 degree angle with your left foot and as you shoot past him slap him in the balls as hard as you can.

Tips:
If a blow lands, try and follow it up right away with another and another and another to the same location. If he starts blocking, start attacking his arms or better yet go low.

If you get him bent over, start kneeing him in the face and elbowing him downwards onto his brainstem and the back of his neck. If he tries to grab your legs from this position, sprawl forward to get on top of him and come down on his kidneys or spine with the points of both of your elbows, then begin kneeing him in the head.

I like what the original poster said about ear biting. Add to that jugular biting, finger biting, trachea biting. Bites to the vein complex around the latissimus dorsai. I understand (never tried this) that you can bite someone on the triceps and it's excruciatingly painful and you can control them that way to the extent of making them jump up in the air.

2-finger pokes to the eyes, trachea and nipples are good (you laugh at nipples? Take your thumb and push it straight into your nipple. How far can you go?) Or jab fingers up under the armpit, or into the groin.

Dig your fingers down behind his collarbone and try to grab his collarbone while VIOLENTLY SHAKING IT. Do this after you've broken his collarbone with an axehand, or just break the collarbone in this manner.

Or grab both of his collarbones, hooking your fingers behind them, and use them as handles to yank his body toward you while you headbutt him in the face. Again and again and again.

Grab his hair or back of his neck with one hand and forcefully shove his chin in a horizontal or vertical rotation.

Get behind him, stomp on the back of his knee, and simultaneously claw his face backwards like you were trying to peel it off.

Or when you're behind him you can grab the back of his collar and drop to the ground sideways with all of your weight on his collar. Back-of-head, meet Mr. Concrete.

Every step forward should be a stomp. You should always ALWAYS ALWAYS maintain forward pressure, moving into him, or alongside him and then move into him from the side or rear. Close in, every time you lift your foot off the ground, you should knee and then stomp. Every time you retract your hand after a blow, you have the ability to elbow. Put your hand near your ear as you elbow vertically and this will also protect you from close-in hooks.

A good cycle is hammerfist-elbow-hammerfist-elbow. Same with knee-stomp-knee-stomp. Repeat until he gets sleepy.

Oh, and use weapons.

Stunguns don't work unless it's a myotron or taser. Mace might work and it's good for a first line of defense because, like, no harm no foul.

If he has a weapon and you don't, run like the wind.

Try not to go to the ground if you can at all help it. Bad things are on the ground, like crack vials, syringes and broken bottles. If he has friends they will come up and put in the boot on your spine. You limit your ability to get away. This goes even if you are jujitsu master. Combat jujitsu people try to throw and maintain their own balance without going to the ground, it's a last resort.

If you find yourself holding one of his hands with both hands, try to wrench it or hold onto it while kicking his lower extremities.

If he grabs you, start pummelling the **** out of him. Elbows, knees, whatever.

A good move is glasgow kiss which is to grab his lapels and headbutt him (with the part above your forehead) until he goes to sleep.

If he goes down on his knees or falls down, immediately STOMP on anything he has on the ground and then start jumping up and down on it. People talk about kneedrops but to me that's a pro-wrestling move; just jump up and down on him, landing with your heels. If he starts out on one knee, with a combination of shoves, kicks and stomps you should be able to work him down prone, whereupon you can begin the stomping of his joints and most tender parts with your sweet little tootsies.

Most of this stuff is kali, silat and military combatives. If you want to know more, go here

Army Combatives Field Manual

And come to my forum at selfdefenseforums.com
but don't post bullsh1t or ask too many questions or I'll ban you so fast your head will spin. :D Probably don't even post there unless you have something to share that's worthwhile.

Oh, by the way, this stuff could very easily kill or cripple someone or make them retarded. Use only at your own risk. Run away, go to the cops, get your mom, do anything in order to avoid fighting. But when you can't get away, go animalistic.

That's how to fight.
 
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"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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Nah, just since 1988. Quality is much better than quantity. You can spend years and years at inferior styles and have nothing at all at the end of the day.
 

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Phoenix,

The US military apparently disagrees with you, as do the militaries of all other industrialized nations. What I've outlined above is very similar to US Special Forces fighting.

All "techniques" are is repositories of ideas. They work on their own and they're necessary to teach people how to fight quickly and effectively. Any plan is better than no plan.

Simplistic is what works. Small muscle coordination tends to break down under pressure and adrenaline especially in inexperienced people. That's why all of the blows and movements above involve large muscle groups.

If you disagree with me, let's see whatcha got, Young Blood Hawk. I'm here to learn.
 

"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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Originally posted by RagingBull
Phoenix,

The US military apparently disagrees with you, as do the militaries of all other industrialized nations. What I've outlined above is very similar to US Special Forces fighting.

All "techniques" are is repositories of ideas. They work on their own and they're necessary to teach people how to fight quickly and effectively. Any plan is better than no plan.

Simplistic is what works. Small muscle coordination tends to break down under pressure and adrenaline especially in inexperienced people. That's why all of the blows and movements above involve large muscle groups.

If you disagree with me, let's see whatcha got, Young Blood Hawk. I'm here to learn.
Militarys are organized to do modern warfare, not hand to hand combat. They really are not an authority in these matters.

What Ive got? Find a gym for some full contact style, train hard.
 

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Militarys are organized to do modern warfare, not hand to hand combat. They really are not an authority in these matters.
Indeed.

Interesting how much effort the US military puts into training even clerk personnel in the modern combatives curriculum, which has been deemed necessary for urban warfare, peacekeeping, snatch operations and "Operations Other Than War" by TRADOC and other military bodies.

Also interesting that the Soviet Union and now Russia put so much effort into the training of their special forces (spetsnaz) and line personnel in hand to hand combat that there was an acceptable rate of deaths for every graduating training class.

But don't listen to me, just keep studying your thai or BJJ or whatever it is you do. It's all good. But many people who took the sport approach, even full contact, have had rude awakenings.
 

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But don't listen to me, just keep studying your thai or BJJ or whatever it is you do. It's all good. But many people who took the sport approach, even full contact, have had rude awakenings.
Well so has everybody else, or do you think that your advice will make people invincible after reading it?
 

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Also interesting that the Soviet Union and now Russia put so much effort into the training of their special forces (spetsnaz) and line personnel in hand to hand combat that there was an acceptable rate of deaths for every graduating training class.
Excuse me, does anybody elsefind this ironic?

Dieing while training self-defense?

That doesnt really convince me.
 

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I think maybe you and I have different concepts of what fighting is, and what fights are in general. I have taught police defensive tactics to small groups in the Minneapolis area since you were 14 or so, and I guess I'm a little set in my ways.

So I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.

You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.

She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.

The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.

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Knowing how to fight-- confidence in yourself-- shows to other men AND to women.

The way that other men treat you affects how women treat you.

All of human life is about who can kick whose ass. Nature red in tooth and claw.
 

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jeez i dont think i could do most of that to a person.
 

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You may think it's funny now, but think about it.

Think about how much you talk about on this site has to do with dominance games. And I'm not talking about whips and chains.
 

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Understood, but when I see people posting incomplete or bogus information I have this uncontrollable urge to counteract the disinformation.

Now I'm off to read methods for seducing a 21 year old blonde 6'0 runway model I know.
 

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...my god, these are torturous

it makes me cringe just reading it...yikes
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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maybe I'll talk about some of the nasty stuff sometime :)

This is all schoolyard sh1t. This is mostly Kali/kinomutai, the Silat is much much worse than this and really does make Kali look kind. Silat came from Indonesia, but in the phillippines the word is actually used to mean torture, because the police used to go to the jails to practice their craft.
 

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That's great if you're training for UFC or an action movie, but in the urban reality of 2005, attackers either jump you from behind, pull out gun, corner you with a knife, or come at you in gangs.
 

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Hm

There is no manual for fighting.

The best way to learn how to fight, is to go out, and FIGHT. Trust me, you can know alot of karate moves but when it comes to experience, you have zero, so you will most likely get your ass handed to you by a guy who does. I've been into boxing and kickboxing for 4 years, I should know this.

One of the most important skills to have, is to be able to take hits and still be standing. And that comes from fighting and sparring alone.
 
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