Wild Brawl at Taco Restaraunt Caught on Tape

[Rob Sandwell]

losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/03/09/wild-make-that-very-wild-brawl-caught-on-tape-at-eastvale-taco-restaurant/

The videos (the fight is seen from three angles), appearing on Youtube, start innocently enough. A couple of kids standing around the restaurant…one on his cell phone.

Near the door, the guy on the cell phone greets someone coming in with “What’s up?” The way he says it and the person’s reaction, clearly indicates the two are not buddies. Punches start flying, their friends start getting into it.

Wow. This is pretty intense video. Two guys standing in a taco place get attacked by three dudes walking down the sidewalk outside. The two guys destroy their attackers, and get away almost completely unharmed, while the guy who starts the fight is knocked out and his two buddies get knocked around and end up running away.

Youtube has the video from three angles. It's pretty amazing. Here's two of them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEeH6KqfSko&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.martialtalk.com%2Fforum%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D94312&has_verified=1

www.youtube.com/watch?v=92eJ3AQdKak&has_verified=1&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fverify_age%3Fnext_url%3Dhttp%253A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%253Fv%253D92eJ3AQdKak

I haven't posted the videos themselves so you can choose whether or not to watch. They aren't very graphic, it's mostly fisticuffs and a little ground fighting, but I leave that choice to you.

Personally, I think there's a lot of really interesting things that can be learned. Especially when you compare the different angles. I don't know if any of these guys had actual training, but the two who were attacked handle themselves quite well.

If you watch it, let me know what you see. I think it would be interesting to break this down some.


-Rob

[Jonathan Herron]

Did I just watch a brawl out of a modern-western?

That was quite epic. I wonder if the guy in the green striped shirt was texting those people on his phone before hand? He goes right to the door and even opens it, but he knows trouble is up because he puts his fists up before a punch is thrown.

I wonder if the initial knock-out of the main attacker was a lucky punch.

Either way, I consider this a victory for fashion as the guy wearing jean shorts with white pull up socks past his knees clearly deserved to get his ass kicked for dressing ridiculously. Everyone notice he had to pull his pants up mid-fight? Didn't prevent him from getting knocked out though...

[Jonathan Herron]

A couple of other things.

Based on the time, that whole event, from the first punch, to the original patrons leaving the store lasts 40 seconds.

To me, it looks like nobody had martial training. I think the green striped shirt guy got in a lucky knock out punch because jean shorts was paying too much attention to the other guy. The white shirt guy does alright for himself, but when he does a running kick into jean short guy when he's on the ground, it doesn't prevent jean short guy from getting up and leaving on his own (well, sort of, he has help getting up). He was lucky to get up from that. The other guys charge in and you see several punches that come wildly from over the top, in a circular looping motion, not a traditional straight forward method where power is actually generated.

Interestingly, before the jean short guy gets knocked out, white shirt straightens his arm out to the right, a distraction method? Then again, maybe not, he backs away and does it again, maybe he was trying to get a quick rotator cuff stretch

[Rob Sandwell]

I thought it was interesting that the instigator, the kid in the jersey, gets knocked out almost immediately, and then kicked repeatedly while he's unconscious on the floor. He must have thought he'd have at least some chance to beat up the other two guys, or he wouldn't have charged into the dining room with his dukes up. And yet, despite his confidence and bravado he ended up knocked out almost immediately and was left to the not so tender mercies of his intended victims.

There's a pretty obvious lesson there about the dangers of physical violence. No matter how confident you are you can lose. And losing is not fun. That's why I recommend not fighting.

I also thought it was interesting that the two defenders seemed to have some basic concept of fight strategy, pushing their opponents away to striking range and evading holds, where the attackers seemed to just charge in swinging. Perhaps they expected their aggression to carry the day.


-Rob