“All I could think, Jeff,” a reader said to me, “was what if it didn’t work?”
That was the amazing opening line of an email I received not long ago from a reader who has trained in our Combat Machete program.
He lives in a state where he can’t easily get a handgun… so his machete is his go-to defensive tool, and he carries it in his car.
Well, when a road-raging driver followed him into a parking lot, he knew that machete was the only thing that stood between him and getting beaten or even murdered.
But, knowing that a deadly fight might land him in jail, he tried one, desperate “Jedi mind trick” move first…
How To Avoid A Machete Fight… With MIND CONTROL?
How To Avoid A Machete Fight… With MIND CONTROL?
I mean, that just makes common sense, right?
But my reader, Bill – who has followed MCS for a long time – also believes in being prepared for any threat.
That’s why he had one of our MCS Guardian machetes in his car, and that’s why he’s trained to use it.
But he knows – just like you and I do – that if you do have to use potentially lethal force, you may have to go to court to prove that what you did was justified.
That’s just a fact of our legal system.
So when he was on the highway, driving to his “essential job,” he wasn’t looking for trouble with the driver who was speeding and pacing him.
When that road-raging driver followed Bill off the highway and into a parking lot, Bill knew he was in trouble – and he had forgotten his phone when he left the house, so he couldn’t dial 911.
“I knew I shouldn’t get out of the car,” he wrote to me. “If I did, he might do so too, and then I might need my machete if I thought he was really trying to hurt or kill me. I could see from his shoulders he was a lot bigger than me, a real ‘roided up monster. So I was stuck between a rock and a hard place.”
Bill tried to leave, only to have the driver cut him off.
That’s when a moment of inspiration struck him:
“I rolled down my window and he rolled down his. He opened his mouth to say something angry… and I shot him a thumbs up and a HUGE grin, and shouted, ‘GREAT RACE!’
Bill said the look on the other guy’s face was priceless.
The rager shouted, “What?” and Bill again, with even more cheerfulness, said, “GREAT RACE!”
“You… you didn’t want to fight?” he said the road-rager asked.
Bill laughed like that was the most absurd thing he had ever heard, shook his head, and told the rager that he was a great driver and his car (a Dodge Charger) was super-hot.
“He actually looked confused,” Bill said, finishing his story. “He drove off without saying anything else… and thank goodness he did, because the whole time, I had my other hand out of sight on the grip of my machete, just in case he came at me.”
I had a really good laugh at Bill’s story, although it’s a pretty serious one.
He understood that in a fight against someone who is genuinely trying to hurt or kill you, when you’ve done everything you can to avoid it, a weapon might be your only option… and there isn’t one much better than a machete if you can’t have a gun.
But he ALSO understood that there might be a way to short-circuit this road-rager’s train of thought… and by some stroke of luck, it totally worked.
And, finally, Bill knew that if it didn’t work, he was going to have to be able to protect himself… which is why he took the time to get trained to use his blade.
He told me, in a follow-up email, that he also has “The Club,” one of those steering wheel lock bars, in his car, and he knew he could use the same techniques to wield that weapon like… well, a club.
That’s exactly why I created my combat machete training DVD.
The next time some rage-fiend is trying to get in your face to hurt you or even kill you, waving your hand and telling him “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for” probably ISN’T an option.
When that’s the case, you need these fighting principles – principles of “big blade and club” combat (which anyone can master in just 7 days).
Once you develop them, those skills will ALWAYS be there, ready to defend you with whatever weapon you have in your hands – from a machete, to a tire iron, to a stick… ANYTHING.
Just watch the DVD and you’ll see what I mean.
But, hey, if you CAN use The Force, who am I to say otherwise?
