Selco Talks Survival

This is a great article by Selco on what K-selection looks like. Read it first, and bear in mind that a year before this was one of the most cosmopolitan European cities, with people sipping tea in sidewalk bistros.

One day we heard that powdered eggs can be bought from some guys who had lots of stuff taken from humanitarian aid convoy…

Guys were in apartment on second floor in apartment building that was maybe already half empty.

Man who opened door for us took us to the living room of the apartment after we told him that we want to buy some goods from him. There were 4 more guys sitting next to table there, actually one of them was sleeping with his head on the table….

All of them looked pretty rough and ready for everything, three of us with one pistol looked like easy prey for them.

Man who opened door for us asked us who sent us, we said name and he said: “Who is that? I do not know him.”

Silence was awkward, I could feel like something is crawling over my back at that moment, especially when I noticed rifles standing next to the chairs where those guys were sitting, and on the carpet under the table there was big stain that suspiciously looked like blood.

One thing a lot of people don’t grasp is how things change when real threat presents itself. You become a different person than you would imagine yourself to be, which can make a lot of your training meaningless. Everything from your mind to your body changes, and it does so without any conscious effort by you.

Enter a real fight, or even just go to a tournament, be it boxing or grappling. You will have a different body than the one you trained with. Yes you spent a half hour a day on the speed bag, and never felt tired. But when it didn’t matter your body knew, and your punches were light, your muscles relaxed, and you developed to throw light punches in a relaxed state for a long period of time. You cannot simulate the change real threat produces.

Enter the ring, and your body knows something is different and it changes, without any permission from you. Injury lurks, and your body tenses every muscle to harden and protect you from sudden injury – and that exhausts your muscles incredibly quickly. Every punch counts, and your body makes every nerve impulse is twice as strong, doubling the violence of every muscular contraction. Within two rounds, you can barely hold your hands up, let alone throw a swift hard jab like you did for hours in practice.

Enter a BJJ, Judo, or wrestling tournament, and no matter how long and hard you trained, within minutes you will feel your arms go numb with exhaustion, beyond anything you can imagine. Under any normal circumstance you cannot force your arm muscles to work as hard as they do naturally when things appear real to your mind. It makes your training into incomplete preparation for the rigors of real world confrontation.

Likewise, try to mentally train to make cool, calculated decisions, run what-ifs in your mind, practice the techniques you will probably need to survive, and all of it can go out the window when you are faced with a few armed men ready to kill you. Your decisions will be hasty and rash, the idea of violence as an option can become minimal to the point of non-existent, if that is allowed by circumstance, and you will feel lucky if you get out alive, no matter any other outcome.

The main points I take from Selco’s article are to get away from the city and have friends who are tactical and reliable. If you have woods and/or ocean, you will have food, and if you have fewer humans around, you will have fewer threats. Likewise, either get somewhere warm, or have enough forest around that you can heat your house off the woods around you, in the event oil becomes harder to come by.

This is what happens when liberals begin to have influence. This is K-selection.

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