Real World Tactical SELF DEFENSE Training

Tony Seminot teaches an eight-hour self-defense seminar in Miami covering striking, grappling, knife defense, and situational awareness. The focus is on survival mindset, high-repetition drills, and fighting on concrete with obstacles. A detailed segment covers lethal vs. incapacitating targets and the two-on-one control principle.
Questions this video answers
Six First Form athletes.
Eight hours of intense training.
Tony's gym in Miami, Florida.
Diego Devereau.
A fixed blade (non-folding) was described as the most effective for self defense.
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Let's get into it. What's going on, guys? Tony Seminot here, AKA Real World Tactical. And today I got a treat for you. We have six first form athletes that have been brought around from around the country and they're going to be doing a defensive tactics seminar with me and Diego Devereau at my gym down here in Miami, Florida. We going to be covering, striking, kicking, punching, groundwork, jiu jitsu, grappling, all that type of ordeal, right? The whole goal is I'm a huge proponent on a survival mindset, a non victim mindset, right? Okay. There are no victims. You have to have a survival mindset. You have to have a mindset that you are unbreakable. And that is what we are going here today. You need to learn how to defend yourself physically. You have to learn how to make sure that nobody can break you mentally, okay? Emotionally. So that's what they're going to be going over today. It's going to be eight hours of intense training, mixed martial arts style stuff, and stay tuned.
To become proficient in a martial art, okay? One day is just not going to be enough, right? You have to do hundreds and thousands of repetitions in any movement pattern, okay. To become proficient in it, okay? Movement pattern. What is a movement pattern? A basic movement pattern is just anything that your body does that it will mimic that same movement over and over and over again, right? Hence a punch, right? So just any basic punch. When you go to punch, right, there's so many things, so many elements to just a punch that you have to do over and over and over and over again. So you get to the point where when you're moving around, no matter what you do, bang. It just comes out right. Boom. You don't think about what you're doing anymore, okay? And that's the point, right? When you're doing jiu jitsu, groundwork, grappling, fighting, anything you do in any sport, right, Baseball, basketball, whatever, you'll see that those guys do thousands of hours of training before they become good. Then you become good and you're just good. And you have to do another 10,000 hours of training to become great. And then you have to do another 10,000 hours to be fucking the elite, the 1 percenters. Think about that for a split second of how hard it is to become great or phenomenal at something. So what we're doing today, it's almost like an eye opener. There's going to be. I'm going to open your eyes to a lot of different things, but the main thing is to See what you're capable of doing. Because remember, out there in the real world, there's no mats. You're fighting on cement, on grass, next to a tree, next to a car.
And that's what changes the entire thing. Because I don't have to be a tough guy. I can be a girl or whatever it may be, and defending myself against a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, and somehow or some way just grab my hand and push his head back or even when he's fighting or trying to pull me in. And I just do this as a girl. Boom. And you hit your head on concrete and the fight is over. Boom. That's all it takes. And I can tell you that I have this much pressure on someone's. The back of someone is someone's head on concrete. Run on them unconscious, completely, go to sleep. So it doesn't take much, right? So just these little concepts are what I want to put in your brain. What are we going to go over today? Right now, we're going to start with the. Actually, you know what? Get your shoes on real quick. I want to go outside real quick and go over a couple things. The most important thing in any.
Street survival, urban survival style ordeal is situational awareness, okay? When you walk out of these stores, something to take always into consideration, right? As you have cars most of the time, they're going to pick their victims. They're going to pick people that are oblivious and delusional and are in their own little world and have no idea what's going on around them. They're going to pick people that are weaker than them, okay? That they look that they're weaker. So your posture means something, okay? And they're going to pick people that are entertained doing something that they shouldn't be doing, okay? That is 90% of the time. So you always have to keep that in your brain. What does that mean? Meaning that if I'm walking and there's a guy in that car and I have to go to my car and I look at that guy and I'm looking at him as I'm walking, I'm looking at him and. And he makes eye contact with me, right? And I look and then I put what I do and then I do this and I look again.
He'S gonna realize that I see you, motherfucker. Right? And I am not scared of you, right? I don't. I'm not like.
Right? So they. That alone.
Automatically, it sends a message to a person, right? That's going to do a crime that automatically Sends to them is like, well, this person may not back down. This person may not give in to whatever I want to do. Why am I going to pick them? So that is your first. Because they don't want a problem. They want to come up to you. Give me your stuff, give me your stuff. And you're like, right? But if they see your posture, how you walk, how your demeanor is, as you look, as. As you're scanning and you're looking at things, they're gonna look at you and they're gonna be like, well, damn, we just made eye contact. And she didn't even flinch. Or he didn't even flinch. Why am I gonna fuck with this person? Because I know this person might give me a problem. And that's what they don't want. They want the. They don't want the maybe or the mic. They want the. I know for sure that person is gonna be a.
Just to get that.
If you end up what we were talking about, if you end up getting attacked while you're in the middle of getting up, all right, you're going to always think, heal, knee, heel, knee, heel, knee. Okay? So your whole goal is that that leg that's coming in, that lead leg, as. As I'm doing this, I'm here and the guy comes to attack me. I'm going to heel and then catch his knee here. And all I'm going to do is extend, put it all forward into him. It's going to go down to the ground. And then you decide on what you want to do, whether you want to continue, you want to engage. So that's one of the things. That's the last option, right? That's the last thing you want to do. First thing is disengage. Second thing is try to get up off your. Well, the first thing is to get up on your knee. So now you have a better playing field. You're not on your back anymore. Second one is disengage. And then the guy comes to attack you. Then you're going to go straight for the knee with the heel. Okay? All right, so now let's. Let's talk about the knife stuff. This is the ending of the day. So this is a straight blade and it's a fixed blade, right? Doesn't fold. It's not a folder. This is probably, I would say, the most effective knife for self defense there is. Why? Because if this is on your belt, this is wherever when you come out, it's automatically ready to cut to do whatever it needs to defend you. Right? So this is a fake Caesar. This is not sharp. Yeah, this is your regular blade. Okay? So blade is something. If I have this behind myself and you attack me or for whatever. For whatever reason it is at that point.
Okay, There are so many things that you do. Other side, do it again. Whichever side you want. So at this point, let's say the guy comes with a knife. He's overpowering me, and I'm like, oh. Even if he punches me and I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. Clown. He just caught a fucking stab right to the. The L. Okay, it's done. Now, if I had a gun. This is the thing about guns, okay? If I have the gun here, right? Appendix, right. Like how we had it yesterday. And you go to grab me. Bomb. And then whatever happens, bomb. You hit me a couple times. Now I go like this. Oh, I'll. I'll see it. I'll just kill automatically. Two on one. Right off the bat, like, I'm gonna up. Yeah, yeah, that's it right there. So going to grab. You're going to go ahead and the gun. So the gun's going to come out. I have to turn the gun. If I know what I'm doing, what I'll do is, as soon as I go to do that, like, say we're coming here, I'm going to come here. I'm going to create this distance here. And then. Right. But let's just say you go, oh, when I do this, he's going to go straight for the gun, right? The knife never happens. So this is the difference between a knife and a gun. The gun only has one way out. Shoot you this way, right? So if you move it this way, it can't hurt you. Move it down to the ground, can't hurt you up there. This blade, when he goes to go for the blade, and he goes to grab this hand, and I do this, I just cut his hand right off and everything. I'll just. His hand's worthless. Okay. Right. Same exact thing. You want to grab me, go to grab.
Right? I just cut his hand there, right? So I missed him. Let's say I cut his hand there. Boom. I missed him on the second one. Now we're creating that distance, and I keep coming at him. No. Yeah. He's gonna take off running, right? That's it. It's over. The fight is over. And you didn't kill the guy, but you're completely incapacitated to a point where he's not. He's going to be. Oh, shit. And all the inside of the arm and all that. That's all your tendons and ligaments. So understand this, if anybody ever goes to attack you and they're overpowering you, and I'm on my knees and I'm doing like this, right, And I come to peel this blade out, I want to go on the inside of the arm. I don't want to go on the outside of the arm. Inside, inside here, inside here, inside bicep. All right, That'll disappensate pretty much. His hands will go numb completely. You have total control of his arms. Okay. If you're here on the floor, the next thing you want to go for is if more artery right inside the leg. Boom, he'll bleed out in 20 seconds. Okay? So from here we'll go a little bit faster. So here, grab. Boom, here. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, 6. Yeah, so that was about four or five seconds less than that, maybe three seconds. I cut his femorality, I took out his lung, I took out his arm and I cut him in the throat twice. By the time that he steps, five steps there, he'll be dead. Yeah. Probably just pass away from the wounds. So that's the problem. Now let's just add more to this. Jared, come here. Julian, I'll for you. All for you.
Here. Four guys. Here's the blade. Go for the blade. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Yeah, yeah, sure. Now, here's the difference.
Oh, I have a gun. Now get back close again. That's it. It's over. It's over. It's over.
It's over. Even if, when you go to. Let's say even if I. You went to do this, and I. And I did. Bang. I just got popped right here. Yeah. Even if I go. So I go, boom. I caught you, right? This other guy hits me. Bang. Now, he just attacked me. Now you're gonna go for the gun and I'll just keep going. You're welcome. Sacrifice myself for you guys.
You know, if, God forbid, that ever happens. But if that were to happen where you did have, you got attacked and you did have a gun, the proper thing to do wouldn't be that. The proper thing to us. If you all four guys, if you have this, this is a scenario and I'm going back, right? I don't want to stay here. Never going to pull my gun here at this point. What I'm going to do is I'm going to do this and go and. Yeah, just swing away. Yeah, pop up, pop up, pop up, pop up, swing away. You know, I'm gonna throw one guy. Yeah. And it's usually gonna be, well, no, no, no, no. It's my power side. Because if everybody's attacking me this way, I'm gonna always do here. Why? Because I want to circle this way on the right side as I'm going this way. So I'm doing this. Yeah. What I wanted to show you just how deadly and how when it opens your eyes, that it doesn't matter.
How much shit you know or whatever they may be. A guy that knows how to use a blade is very deadly. At a close, Close scenario, situation. Anything where I can literally just touch you. If I can touch you and I have a knife and I know how to use it, any, any, any. Any limb that is held or whatever is a cut limb. Okay. So then we're going to go into number one. Okay. We're gonna go from most lethal to less lethal. Right? Most lethal in a knife. If you have a knife and you carry a knife or arteries. Arteries is what's gonna kill you. Okay. Artery. Artery. Okay? Those are your two main arteries that you will bleed out within 20 seconds if you're cut with a blade. Here, here, here, here. 20 seconds. Yeah. If I go like this to you, you're gonna naturally. And this is the instinct for every single person, but fuck who you are. Yeah. You're going straight through your neck, up your heart. Yeah. And there was a guy not too long. Remember the video? The guy kept walking that cut him, and he just. He goes like this. He goes.
Boom. He just fell on the floor and died. Some guy that was instigating another guy with a blade, and the guy was like. And the guy goes, what? He just nipped him on the video. He died. He's unconscious then. Seen the other one where the guy is just like this. Oh, yeah, yeah. He just goes one time and walked away. Put his book bag back on the guy, go. This goes. The blood was going, this. He goes down to a knee, Boom. Down to a floor, dead. Okay, so arteries, number one, most lethal. Okay. Number two, decapacitating ligaments on the inside. Okay. Here, Achilles. Okay. Inside here. Okay. Inside of the arm. This will decapitate this. Achilles will. Your walking ability. Okay? All that. So if you're on the floor, you're here, and the guy's pounding on you and you're feeling unconscious.
Oh, he's gonna grab his leg. It's gonna go straight down to his leg. Yeah. You better hope he don't go to high ground because I'm gonna stab that neck. But if he goes backwards, you'll be fine. He'll survive that day.
So it'll be, it'll be that first one will be here, one to decapitate, and the other one will be right here, right to his thing. Okay? That's worst case scenario. So that's the incapacitation also another incapacitation, very important for the girls, for the women. Okay, Lungs, all right. Stabbing in the lung, Stabbing in the lung. Okay. In between the bones, the ribs. Okay. Once that, that lung is, is punctured, it will start. Start to put blood inside the lung, which he will. He will eventually die because he won't be able to breathe with one lung, he'll be able to live. But if you were to stab both where you were to go, voom, boom, boom, that's it, it's over. And then the other thing would be obviously just regular muscle stuff outside. You know, all this stuff, this is all fine. You stab in the stomach, anywhere in this, any of this organs, all this you can stab. You could get stabbed there three or four times and you're gonna survive for minutes, long time. Okay. You know, bleeding is going to happen from the inside out, will not happen on the outside. So you're not going to see a lot of blood. But what you will see is the stomach starts to grow from the inside. And eventually, yeah, you're going to bleed out, you're going to die on the inside. But it's going to take a long time because the body takes a while for air. It takes a while. Damn. You know, and then you're going to have like, if you guess the intestines or something, your. Your starts to come out, your. The feces starts to go into your other. The bacteria, all that. You're probably going to be end up shitting out of colostomy bag for the rest of your life. So. So that's just the way that it works here. Obviously, you stab somebody in the heart, they're gonna die. You know, anything in the heart always does the person, the neck, carotid artery, that's, that's obviously lethal. Anything in the face, believe it or not, anything in the face, even stabbing in the face, right, cutting in the face, they're gonna live. They should live. Okay. The only thing where they might die is if you hit the temple. Boom, right into the temple, they're gonna die. And I've done a ton of demos with my knife. Where I put my knife, I literally just go like this. I don't even put Any pressure, I just go like this. Right through the. The. The skull. Yeah. You know, and it goes in like, that deep. The dummy skull or like natural like. No, the. The skull. The ballistic advantage skull, which is. That's literally like.
Yeah. The guys who do the. The. The. Those things, those dummies with the brain and the bones and all that, you know, the only one thing you have to remember, there's actually two things you have to remember, but the most important thing is two on one. Say with me, two on one. Two on one knife. Two on one. Okay? So two on one means two hands to one. Two hands to every one hand. The blade is in one hand. The only chance you have of survival, if you're even going to survive, is having two hands on his one hand. The hardest part is getting that hand. That is the hardest part. Okay? And the second hardest part is controlling the hand to the point where that it cannot touch you no matter what he does. Right? So that's your second hardest part, worst case scenario. So what we're going to do is today we're going to practice, which is the most important thing. Number one. As soon as the knife comes out, as soon as you see that blade, however, is the blade, whether it's tight here, whether it's out here, he has to attack you to get to you, okay? You have to counter at the end of the day, no matter how you look at it. So the only thing you could do, it's only one way, is as soon as he does whatever he does, bomb both hands straight. Now, when I do this, it is not like this. It is not like this. It is not like this. It is here.
How do you see that? All right, come on. However you want. No, come on.
There it is right there. Okay? And look, he killed me. Keep the knife away from my other hand. I'm gonna go with that knife right now. So watch. So this is what I did. All I did was retreat, retreat two times and then attack, right? The reason I did that was he is already feeling like the attacker. He's already feeling like the attacker, right? So he thinks, hey, this guy's on the run. So you act almost like, oh, shit, he's coming, he's coming. And all of a sudden, oh, shit. Oh, shit, oh, shit. And you see, right when the. This is naturally he's going to do this. It's going to go back and forth a little bit. You want to get it to where it's almost on the back end of it. So it's coming. Hey, that's what we're doing. Look at my hands. Right? Shoulder to shoulder. It must be shoulder to shoulder. No matter what. This has to be extended. It cannot be closed. It cannot be like this. You can't do this. You're not going to win that battle. You're going to get stabbed, you're going to get cut. It has to be extended. Right, right here. Pulling down. Shoulder to shoulder. Pulling.
All right, guys, so that pretty much concludes our eight hour course of urban survival and self defense tactics. Everybody did all kinds of stuff. We did striking, we did ground fighting, we did a knife defense, little bit of everything, right? Everybody worked hard. I'm really proud of everyone. They did a phenomenal job today. And at the end of the day, it's all about what you give, what you're capable of doing, right? Because if you're a weakling and you're weak, then you're just harmless, right? If you choose not to be violent, but you're able to become violent, then you might be useful to somebody someday or to yourself, right guys? So thank you so much to first form for this opportunity. And remember what I always say. Make your mind unbreakable so that your body becomes unstoppable.
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