[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
Sifu wrote:
Throat punching is a bad idea unless you have no way out of a really bad situation. For most people, it is not a good idea to have maiming and killing techniques as part of your primary game plan.
One of the most one sided fights I have ever seen was a kid who had karate training who used to tell me about how he would handle a fight. He would say he was going to kick out the knee, gouge out the eyes, punch in the throat and all these nasty, viscious things if he got into a fight.
One day he did get into a real fight, right in front of me. The other guy worked this kid over without him throwing as much as one punch.
The reason why the kid didn’t defend himself was his whole game plan relied upon techniques that he really didn’t want to use.
There are a lot of people who will say they would maim or kill someone without thinking about it, but when the time comes they don’t have the neccessary background to follow through.
True, no one wants to be stabbing people’s eyes out really, not because you don’t want to be too dangerous, b ut imagine in case you miss and the guy does the same thing to you since he is exremely pissed off you just wanted to take out his eye!
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Or maybe people just prefer to get beaten up once instead of spending 10 years in prison for aggravated assault, getting raped by their cell mate “MoMo”.