1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Hi guys, it's Daria Nova in Hockey on the Beach. Welcome to Florida. I guess we do talk about hockey over here. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:13,000 In this episode, Travis Howe of Jax on the Leisman will teach me how to handle a fight. He's one of the best. Thank you and enjoy. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:16,000 So, Travis, how to be a good fighter? 4 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Well, you need to be able to take a punch. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,000 You need to... it sounds kind of messed up, but you need to enjoy getting hit. 6 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Some people do, some people don't. I don't know. I think that's what gets me going. That's what turns the switch on. 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,000 I've got to get crapped one good time, unless I'm already mad. 8 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 Do you need muscles for that? 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,000 I don't pride myself on being the strongest guy in the gym, to say the least. 10 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,000 But yeah, I think usually those big, big muscle guys could be a little overrated at times. 11 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:01,000 So it's not about muscles, it's about mentality. 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Yeah, absolutely. You can't ever lose. It's life or death when you go into a fight. 13 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 What about height? Does it matter? 14 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:26,000 No, because some of the toughest people I've ever fought are 5'8". A guy actually in the KHO right now, Garrett Hunt, who I have the utmost respect for that guy. 15 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,000 We fought probably a dozen times in our career and he's one of the smallest guys I've ever fought, but he's also probably the toughest. 16 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Who won? 17 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 We had good fights. We don't need to get into that. 18 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Okay, so you have to show me. 19 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,000 Show you? 20 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Yeah. 21 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 Do you have any gear on? 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,000 I've seen your fights. I think it's a lot about grabbing. 23 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Yeah, so some people focus more on... 24 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Do I need to wear my jersey on? Will that be better? 25 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,000 I will grab all this. I'm trying to grab anywhere from the middle of the jersey. 26 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Hold on a second. I'll do the same to you. 27 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Okay. 28 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,000 So it's in the middle. 29 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,000 I'm trying to grab anywhere from here or even if I come in here and get under the shoulder pad. 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,000 So say you grab me right here. 31 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Does it matter? What about my hand? Left or...? 32 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Are you a righty or a lefty? 33 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Righty. 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:22,000 So yeah, you'd want to grab here. 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Oh, really? 36 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And then you don't want to be square. You want to be a little bit off to the side here. 37 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:28,000 Why? 38 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,000 So get this foot in front. 39 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Okay. 40 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:31,000 So if you're square... 41 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:32,000 Oh, it's like... 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 Yeah, so like if you're square with me, like I can just... 43 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 It's easier to the target, right? 44 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Like where if I'm a little to the side, like I have a little bit more room to, I guess, absorb a shot a little better. 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 I need your mic. 46 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:53,000 But yeah, I'd say anywhere from like here over... 47 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,000 I personally like to grab here and only the jersey. 48 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 It's like, I don't know, it's just more comfortable for me. 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000 Like I also like to counter people. 50 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,000 So like I'll kind of just sit there, wait for you to like hit me a few times. 51 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Okay. See, like if I have shorter... 52 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 I'm going for different grabs. 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:21,000 So like if you're a smaller person and you're coming up here and then you want to almost get both hands in this area and come inside more. 54 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 Because like if I'm just... These don't do anything. 55 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Like you can kind of stay under and like stay inside and get like a lot more power. 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 That's more true from like a boxing standpoint. 57 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Like the smaller guy you ever watch like Tyson fight, like he's fighting here and he's like punching up. 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,000 So like that's usually when you're fighting a taller guy, like we got our reach. 59 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:52,000 But if you can cancel that reach out and get under and get in close, then like you have essentially... 60 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,000 You've just equalized my reach advantage. 61 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 So now there is no advantage. 62 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Now it's just a small guy versus little guy in a phone booth. 63 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:06,000 And sometimes reach advantages in those situations don't work. 64 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,000 What about pulling the jersey up like on my head? 65 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:10,000 That's an old school trick. 66 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,000 It's kind of frowned upon nowadays, but like usually like a ref will come in and stop it. 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:23,000 Like if you're pounding on a guy, it's kind of like one of those unwritten fighting codes between the guys. 68 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:28,000 Like if I got your jersey overhead, you kind of just stop. 69 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 You don't want to take advantage too much. 70 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:36,000 What if the guy is like trying to close his neck and you can't grab it? 71 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:37,000 What do you do? 72 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Oh, no one's doing that. 73 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,000 Like don't fight me. 74 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 So like if I'm trying to grab... 75 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,000 Yeah, I'm like... 76 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I'm just going to start hitting you. 77 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 I don't know, just swing, I guess at that point. 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,000 But like, or I mean, like, I don't know. 79 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I've never really had someone like defend it like that kind of. 80 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It's more... 81 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Because they don't have the mindset. 82 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 It's like, yeah, come on, try this. 83 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 I don't know. 84 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Like I've fought guys who are like, they're really good for like once you get a grab, 85 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,000 they're really good about knocking it away and like keeping it so that you can't 86 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,000 like I grab, they hit it away and I come back to try and grab. 87 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 They're really quick. 88 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Like they're able to knock my hand away and hit me twice before I can blink. 89 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,000 And it's like, God damn, what just happened kind of thing. 90 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And then like you get frustrated because you're like keep trying to get the grab. 91 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,000 They knock it off. 92 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,000 It's kind of like a little art, I guess, to it. 93 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 To like everyone has like a different technique. 94 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 I personally like don't really waste my time with all that. 95 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:48,000 I'd rather just like, yeah, I hit you, you hit me kind of thing. 96 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 How many times can you hit before you get stopped? 97 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 Or it doesn't matter? 98 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 It depends on the ref. 99 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:56,000 How does it work? 100 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Is there like an art? 101 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Well, if someone drops, that helps. 102 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,000 What if nobody drops? 103 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Just keep hitting each other. 104 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I mean, I usually just try and go until I can't breathe anymore. 105 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 I can't. 106 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I'm just so like tired. 107 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 That's usually when I like... 108 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:11,000 Stop. 109 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 And like usually people are trying to stop a little earlier. 110 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 And I'm just like, got to get your money's worth. 111 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Okay, try to grab me. 112 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 See, I'm prepared. 113 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 114 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 You got the karate. 115 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 You got the karate. 116 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:25,000 I don't care. 117 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 That's my technique. 118 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Oh yeah, Willie, yeah, come on. 119 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 Willie, she's teaching me how to fight. 120 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,000 She's doing some karate on me. 121 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Yeah, hi. 122 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 That's funny. 123 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Try to grab me. 124 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,000 Don't be scared. 125 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Get your feet. 126 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 Oh, okay, so because I'm righty, that's why I'm doing it. 127 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Yeah, so you'd be like... 128 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 This would be self-paw. 129 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,000 That means your dominant hand would be your left. 130 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 So you'd want to stay right here. 131 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 And I come in, go for the grab. 132 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:59,000 So I tap, I tap, I tap. 133 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:00,000 So that would... 134 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:03,000 You would be not short, but shorter person. 135 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 So it would be you grab and then you'd want to essentially like act like you're throwing 136 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,000 an uppercut, but you're really trying to get like... 137 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:19,000 I'm trying to get your like, almost your bicep to like hit my forearm and just like pull 138 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:20,000 it off. 139 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:25,000 So like if I'm like, if I'm fighting or whatever, you want to pretend like you're throwing 140 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 something like this. 141 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Yeah, yeah. 142 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Exactly like that though. 143 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:36,000 You're trying to like power yourself through so it knocks his hand off. 144 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,000 And then once, my thing is, is like once I... 145 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:45,000 If someone ever with me like wants to switch up to their left, the second I feel this hand 146 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:50,000 getting taken off my jersey, I don't stop throwing this punch. 147 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:54,000 So like if you're ever in that situation, well, hypothetically... 148 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Yeah, self-protection, yeah. 149 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:02,000 You'd knock that off and then you don't stop with this and you'd still be holding on here. 150 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Oh yeah, that's right. 151 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:10,000 And you're like pulling in with this, meeting and like the way I do it, like I try and aim, 152 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,000 it's like I'm just aiming for the top of my hand. 153 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Because if I'm here, that's where I'm aiming. 154 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Okay. 155 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,000 So that's a... 156 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 But what if like I'm shorter, where do I aim? 157 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:22,000 Same, right there. 158 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 You'd still be punching up, but you'd still want to... 159 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Especially if you have a grab right in the middle, right here every time. 160 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:30,000 Oh yeah, that's right. 161 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 It's perfect. 162 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Because it's, I mean you can hit them anywhere you want really, but if this is where people... 163 00:08:35,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Bring it on.