Former UFC heavyweight champion, notorious street fighter, and occasional self-defense instructor Bas Rutten is completely unimpressed by Detroit Urban Survival Training (D.U.S.T.) head coach Commander Dale Brown. Rutten told The MMA Hour that, despite Brown’s popularity surging to the point where he cornered UFC middleweight Joaquin Buckley, his advice is bad enough to get someone killed.
“The not real guy? With the black hair and ‘stache, that guy? Very funny… Guys like that get people killed, because they give them a false sense of security. That’s why I don’t teach self defense in my classes.”
Bas Rutten Slams Commander Dale Brown: “Guys like that get people killed”
Once upon a time, Bas Rutten released his “Lethal Street Fighting” video series, which was marketed as a self-defense system.
“With self defense, one of these things is, if there’s a situation where you are 100 percent gonna go, and I’m talking about somebody in a mask and he shoots somebody and then he’s asking you for your money. ‘I’ll give you my money, I’m not gonna do anything.’
If the guy’s not wearing a mask and he just shot somebody, now I’m the person that can point him out in court. The chances he’s gonna shoot me are freakin’ astronomically high, so now I’m gonna have to do something.
‘Yeah, but you’re gonna get shot.’ Well, not doing anything, you’re gonna get shot for sure. But by just trying to do something, and especially if you know what to do, you’re gonna increase your chances immensely. Immediately.
So it’s good to do, but you’re gonna have to do it four days a week and you’re gonna have to really grind it in and have a good teacher who knows exactly what he’s teaching and that’s the problem when you look around at the knife defenses.”
Bas Rutten continued: “Sometimes it’s amazing how stupid people are but you know, people are people. They just believe whatever coaching they get, and that’s unfortunate. That’s very dangerous.
Listen, there’s some things that he does, but he has no follow ups. All the things that I said with the gun defense, holding his hand in the same position, these are all wrong things to teach. So he has to really watch out. And you’ve seen those parodies. You’ve seen these guys try to do what he does and then it goes wrong and suddenly they’re in heaven, and that’s really how it is. That’s really how it is.”
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