This post is mostly for men. You enter a public toilet. There are five urinals against the wall. The one closest to you is 1 and the one farthest away is 5. Urinal 5 is in the corner (next to the back wall). All are vacant. Which urinal do you select?

If the select the closest one (1), people entering and leaving the toilet will pass by you (behind you), and someone might stand next to you in urinal 2.

If you select urinal 2, people could stand next to you in urinals 1 and 3. People could also walk behind you.

If you select urinal 3, people could stand next to you in urinals 2 and 4. People could also walk behind you.

If you select urinal 4, people could stand next to you in urinals 3 and 5. People could also walk behind you.

If you select urinal 5, only one person could stand next to you (in urinal 4). The fewest number of people could pass behind you, but you would be next to a wall (to your left).

So which one do you pick (assuming they are equally clean, they all work, etc.)?

Urinals 1 and 5 are best in the sense that only one person could stand next to you. But urinal 1 is exposed to more potential traffic. And urinal 5 offers the poorest access to an escape route. But some people prefer to fight with their back against a wall to prevent a second attacker from sneaking up from behind.

Actually, in many toilets all of the urinals are against a wall with the enclosed toilets behind them. This means that as a person stands facing a urinal, there is a door or doors behind him. Who knows who might be hiding behind a door, an armed attacker?

What does this have to do with Kuk Sool Won? Everything. When he enters a public toilet, a Kuk Sool Won expert will always evaluate the risks, escape routes, wall placement, etc. He will check to see if there are troublemakers in the toilet.

One of our most vulnerable times is when we are standing in a public toilet using a urinal. What if a person wanted to stab us in the back? We could be looking the wrong way and our hands would be occupied. What if the two people standing next to us were working with the attacker?

There was a scene in Terminator in which Schwarzenegger’s character entered a bar and was looking for clothes. Of course, he was supposed to be a robot. Using his robot eyes, he scanned the people in the bar looking for someone whose clothes would fit him. Through his eyes, we could see a computer grid superimposed over the people.

In a somewhat similar way, we must constantly scan our surroundings to be on guard for potential threats. Whether in a public toilet, a parking lot, or a line at a fast food restaurant, we must be on guard. We have to use “Kuk Sool Won radar,” especially when using a urinal.

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