Category: Striking

Man defends himself in 3 vs 1 home invasion

Luckily they were not armed and were dissuaded by some punches to the face. Poor planning on the criminal’s behalf.

Daily Mail article below with the full story, pasted in here so you don’t have to scroll through all the junk on their website.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7520303/Hero-tells-fought-gang-raided-family-home-partner-slept.html

Even if there were 100 of them, there is no one getting through me’: Hero tells how he fought off robbery gang single-handed when they raided his home while his cancer-hit wife slept upstairs

  • Asif Ali was at home with his wife Charlotte last week when men broke in 
  • Fought the men off  to protect his wife who is undergoing cancer treatment 
  • Charlotte said she never thought Asif would have to use his strength in that way 

PUBLISHED: 21:53 AEST, 30 September 2019

A hero husband has told how he fought off a gang single-handed when they raided his Greater Manchester home as his cancer-hit wife slept upstairs. 

Asif Ali confronted the men after they broke into his home in Rochdale on Tuesday 24 September.

Video footage showed the 35-year-old launching punches at the thugs until they fled the property.

Speaking on Good Morning Britain today, Mr Ali said his main priority was making sure his wife Charlotte, who is currently undergoing treatment for cancer, was kept safe.

Presenter Piers Morgan was astonished at the strength showed by Mr Asif and asked: ‘how many would it have taken to stop you, five, ten?’

Mr Ali, who has been hailed as a hero said: ‘If there was 100 as long as my wife is upstairs then no one is going to get through me.’

Aisif Ali: ‘They were never going to get through me and get my wife’

Asif Ali and his wife Charlotte appeared on Good Morning Britain today to talk about the incident at their home last week

In CCTV footage of his brave defence of his home, businessman Mr Ali is seen landing a flurry of blows on one thug. Another intruder then joins the fray and Mr Ali bravely confronts both

The reason Mr Ali may have been so protective, is due to the fact that wife Charlotte had been feeling unwell due to her cancer treatment. 

Also speaking on the programme today she said: ‘I’m undergoing operations to remove cancer at the moment and that was the reason I had said to Asif, ‘oh I’m just going to go upstairs watch a bit of Netflix’.

‘I’d fallen asleep but then woke up. Winnie the bulldog was the one that barks and she only barks if there is something going on and when I woke up hearing that I knew there was something going on.

Mr Ali has now put up a £5,000 reward in order to help police catch the criminals 

Heroic businessmen fights off four armed robbers at his home

‘I quickly got dressed and put a dressing gown on and by the time I got to the top of the stairs I could see what was going on and I just heard Asif shout phone the police and barricade yourself.’

She said all she could think when she was barricading herself in was ‘ any minute now they are going to come up here for me’.

Asked if he was amazed at this own strength having watch the CCTV back Asif said he was surprised, as ‘if it had been three men walking towards him in the street’ he would have run off.

‘I think my reason why was bigger than theirs and that was my wife and they were never going to get through me.’

Piers then hailed him ‘the husband of the century’ and asked Charlotte how she felt about his bravery.

It’s scary for me to watch the footage back I don’t really like watching it because it’s quite gut wrenching as I didn’t really know what was going on downstairs . 

‘I can’t thank him enough for what he did, he put his life at risk for me. Deep down I knew he had it in him but not to that extent, I never thought it would come to him having to use that sort of strength.’

Mr Ali released the CCTV footage as he wants to make sure they men that did this are held accountable. He said the police have been making enquiries but that it has been ‘difficult’ for them because they have said they are ‘career criminals’ know where the cameras are and what sort of clothes to wear.

The couple have had challenging times recently as Charlotte has been receiving cancer treatment 

‘But somebody out there surely knows who they are, if they have sons a wife, someone must know they are leaving at certain times and coming back.’

Mr Asif is now offering a reward of £5,000 as he says he doesn’t want anyone else to go through what he and his wife did.

He added that he wasn’t sure what had come over him and Piers quizzed him on the reaction he had from the rest of the public.

‘A mixed reaction to be fair, 90 per cent have been very supportive, people calling me a hero, I don’t class myself as a hero, I think anyone would have done that for their family.

‘But then there has been a small percentage saying that i’m stupid for going back at them and picking the knife up.’

Karate vs BJJ/Vale Tudo challenge match

I believe I saw this video about 2005-ish, so it could be much older than that. An old-fashioned challenge match where a pure Karate man has entered a BJJ (or possibly Vale Tudo) gym and challenged them to a fight, somewhere in Brazil.

Back before MMA was popular, many people completely underestimated the importance of grappling skills and believed they could prevent takedowns and never go to the ground, despite having zero experience in takedown defence and grappling.

The sucker punch template – what not to do

This example is almost like it was copy-pasted from some kind of sucker punch template.

These two are engaging in a dominance display, much like you see in nature documentaries, where the goal of both parties is to make the other side back down and submit to avoid a physical fight.

I can’t hear what they’re saying but after the man on the right replies to some kind of question, he then starts taking a draw from his cigarette to emphasise his conviction that he is not intimidated and will not back down. He is fixated on the other mans face.

The man on the left has a bladed stance, his fists are clenched, and he is maintaining just the right range to reach the full extension of his punches. But his stance mainly appears neutral, ensuring the other man remains unprepared in the pre-fight stage.

When he strikes, it comes from this hands-down, neutral stance. Although the man on the right has one hand up, there is not enought time to react to the first hit, and by the time the second punch comes, he probably has his eyes closed and he’s seeing nothing but flashes of light behind his eyelids. It doesn’t help that he appears intoxicated.

Notice how quickly the man on the left punches and transitions from a neutral stance to a fighting stance – less than a quarter second, which means that intoxicated or not, he never had a chance.

Tips

1. Don’t be a slave to your ego and walk away if you have the option

2. Do not bluff. Do not express or insinuate things you can’t follow through with. Bluffing is a last resort when de-escalation is impossible – strategically it’s at the same level as pleading for mercy.

3. Do not disregard or dismiss threats.

4. Maintain a safe distance and give yourself a reactionary gap

5. Watch their body language

6. If you want have a chance when the fight kicks off, you will need footwork, head movement and punching skills – in other words, go train in something like boxing, Muay Thai or kickboxing.

Man pulls knife, gets disarmed and stabbed with own knife

A man holding a knife is taken to the ground and disarmed by another man. A bystander helps by kicking the man to the head while he is on the ground.

Once the knife is taken from him, the other man starts stabbing the one who was previously armed. Seeing this, the bystander panics and runs away.

This apparently happened in Scotland in 2021. No further information.