learn to run fast…works a lot better than fighting
wrote a whole post saying you should learn to fight and bragging on myself, then didn’t say that i agree 110% with The Kid, he put it simply, hard, fast and first. never let up, thats when you get your ass kicked. don’t hesitate either, if you think the other guy is truly serious, step in and punch him in the face (nose or eyes) or knee him in the groin (if hes a lot bigger than you) there are no rules in street fighting, don’t forget that.
brawler
“Be the Hammer”
How about getting schooled by someone 120 lbs heavier than you. thats 360 lbs. My friend threw my ass accross the street. Boy it was fun.
Musclehead,
I’m a legitimate bad ass and the winner/survivor of dozens of streetfights on the mean streets of Los Angeles.
As someone always said. hit first, and don’t stop hitting. This is rule #1.
The problem for most untrained people is their idea of hitting is to put their head down and take wild swings like a little girl.
Practice throwing straight punches with power behind them and in rapid combos.
You will most likely need a boxing/kickboxing (Karate/TKD/Kung Fu are jokes) coach show you how to throw a proper punch and you’ll need to practice it until it’s second nature.
Learn a few basic choke holds to save your ass. A few tie ups to immobolize someone and dont forget the eye gouge, throat strike, knee to groin, hair pull, headbutt, etc.
I don’t get in streetfight anymore because I know I can hurt someone and am afraid once I start hurting someone I might not know when to stop. I’d rather avoid the whole situation overall but sometimes there comes a time when fighting is the only option.
Like the high school kid that said he used to get his ass kicked.
I was small in high school (5’10" 125 lbs freshman year, luckily I grew in pounds) and got in many fights when people tried to pick on me. I knew that if I didnt fight back, I’d be labeled as a pussy and it’d be open season on me.
That was a situation where fighting was the only option I saw then (I still think it was the right thing to do or else I might have ended up one of those pyschos that plots to kill the kids that picked on them). If you are an adult, then I cant see that many circumstances where you are forced to fight.
I had many friends that got stabbed in streetfights or severly beaten by several people or the worse was whipping someones ass one on one only to get shot later as a result.
Hit hard, hit first and don’t stop… makes me feel all warm and fuzzy…
“I knew that if I didnt fight back, I’d be labeled as a pussy and it’d be open season on me”
where the fuck did you grow up? the 1950’s are over, highschool doesn’t work like this anymore
hey lumbrjck, i would appreciate it if you didn’t make comments like that, it might not be the 50’s, but it IS like that and if you haven’t been there then just don’t comment. it is unnecesary.
brawler
“Be the Hammer”
lumberjak,
don’t make him bring down the hammer…lol!
lumberjack,
i think the question is where the fuck did you grow up?
every christmas i go home to the visit my mother and father in law. i always go back up to the old recreation center to play a few games of pick-up b-ball. this center is in the middl of florida in the trailer parks.
well, last christmas, a kid tried to drive past me, but i got to the baseline first, so he ran dead straight into the middle of my chest. i go about 210 right now, and still run a low 4.5 forty, at age 32… to let you know. i think it pissed this kid off, because he was about 20 or so, and was ‘the man’ at the rec center. he wasn’t used to a guy was bigger AND faster than him. we are both 6’, but he looked like about 175lbs.
well, after a couple more times down the court, i got a steal in the high post, and broke hard down court, then pulled up at about ten for an easy pop-up shot. this little f’er runs up and pushes me while i am in mid-air… not defense, just shoves me in the thighs. i almost busted my ass, because i still have a high 30’s vert (yes, can still dunk, and was concentrating on the shot. (i am an awful shooter, as i played soccer in the winter, not basketball)
so, i right myself, and hard guy is bouncing around in a boxer stance… plus, two of his buddies are circling me…they were stockier, but not an issue one-on-one, as i have a bit of training under my belt when it comes to fighting…hehe ;). So, I bolted…didn’t like the odds, plus, the last thing I needed was to get arrested for fighting at the rec center on christmas vacation.
it brings me back to my main point…where the hell are you from?
my highschool was bad for our district, but we constantly had fights… on a weekly basis. most weeks we had 2-3 fights… and when the school cracked down…we would just ride in pick-ups after school to just down the road and fight there.
on the other hand, i also attended a school in Michigan that was very wealthy, and there were never fights… the kids weren’t a bunch of cake-eaters either…they constantly win the state championship in football (including the past couple years, I believe). But, there aren’t any fights… the kids there thought I was a psycho for having all scarred up knuckles when i was a freshman and transferred in… just different worlds.
you’re right, it isn’t the 50’s… unfortunately. i truly believe that there are people who need a good ass-kicking… including me at times… it cuts down on stupid comments, and little pusses disrespecting those they should not, while hiding behind the cloak of societal protection…but, the current system also cuts down on bullying…kinda.
choose your poison. i will usually choose to let two people who choose to fight do so. since you sound like a cake-eater, you would probably choose to break it up, charge them both, and send them to counseling, because obviously they have an illness. BTW- do you also post at ivillage.com?
And, what accessories do you wear while cutting down trees in order to stay fashion conscious in the outback?
Just wondering…
Lumberjack,
I grew up in Los Angelese (I mentioned this in my initial post) and attended high school in the early 90’s (not 50’s).
I have to ask the same question, the others asked you.
Where the hell did you grow up? Mayberry?
Tell me how high school works these days. I’m curious to know.
THE KID is right on target.you hurt them right away and it takes away their will to fight.A street fight is not going to last more than 45 seconds.
I think learning how to fight or defend yourself is a very important life skill.
I like to go out to pubs, clubs and bars and often trouble can rear its ugly head. Most of the time you can extricate yourself but sometimes you can’t. Alcohol + testosterone = violence. Pick any Friday and Saturday night in any British town and you will see someone being assaulted. It may be you or your friends on the recieving end, through no fault of your own. (I’m sure this happens in most ‘civilised’ countries around the world)
You could just not go out but personally I not willing to let these people make me afraid to go out and enjoy myself. But I don’t want to become another victim so I learnt how to fight.
haha i grew up right outside of a city in downstate NY that had a disgustingly high crime rate and went to a public school 80% black (not being a racist). there were fights here and there but if you didn’t start shit or talk shit then you never had a problem.
sorry if i offended anyone but unless you go to a school with extra strength assholes then i really dont see how people could be like “hey, he looks small, lets steal his lunch money and stuff him in a locker,” it all seems to tv-ish for me.
to musclehead, there was a thread not too long ago that some guy posted about getting his ass kicked in a parking lot that had a lot of good info in it, i suggest you check it out
adios
“since you sound like a cake-eater, you would probably choose to break it up, charge them both, and send them to counseling, because obviously they have an illness. BTW- do you also post at ivillage.com”
i’m wondering how a 2 line reply would label me as a ‘cake eater’ and yes, if it was getting out of hand i might just do something crazy like call the police, how immature, right? i guess you’d rather see stupid toughguy bastads beat eachother to death while you played with yourself
i just find it funny how so many people are self proclaimed badasses: “but not an issue one-on-one, as i have a bit of training under my belt when it comes to fighting…hehe ;).” no i have never kicked anyones ass or needed to, i’m not one of those hippy queers that thinks everything can be settled with words, but some people are just so fucking stupid that they escalate the situation because they don’t want their massive egos hurt when they could’ve just laughed it off.
i noticed that nobody mentioned this yet so i thought i would. i have found that 99.9% of the time if you act like a crazy muther fucker who likes to stomp on childrens testicles most people wont fight you in the first place.
when i was a teenager i was scared to fight and always backed down. somewhere down the road i became hardened by society and actually wouldnt mind getting in a fight now and then. unfortunatley every time i go crazy and get in some dudes face they wont do shit. then i feel bad and regret doing it. but it was fun at the time.
lumberjak
nail, meet head.
I’ll beat all your asses!
Figure it’s worth mentioning that you do go in to win. But oftentimes in my experience it was being willing to throw punches in the first place that kept me out of trouble. I had to deal with with geting picked on in jr. high school as I was the typical skinny boy. After running from my first fight my dad told me that it was all about standing up for yourself. I ended up fighting the next day and getting my ass kicked, but the guy never messed with me again because he knew he was going to have to take a shot somewhere in there. It’s called making yourself a hard target.
That has kept me in good stead throughout school and 4 years living in the barracks in the Marine Corps. Wish I could say I won them all, but in fact I lost most of them, but no one messed with me twice.
S/F
Mikeyali
lumberjack,
I wasnt offended by what you said. I thought it was kind of comical actually.
As for my high school being “hey he’s small lets beats him up and stuff him in a locker”.
It wasnt quite like that. It was more like…
“hey, he’s small, let’s clown his skinny ass and since he’s so scrawny and goofy you won’t do shit about it.”
In my case, I had a smart mouth and never suffered anyone’s insults.
Someone would make a smart ass remark to me, I’d respond with a better smart ass remark and things would escalate, and since most people don’t think skinny, funny guys can fight, a fight one ensue where I would dispell the myth that skinny jokers couldnt back up their shit.
Thats how it was.
i guess i never had to deal with that type of shit because i’ve been tall for as long as i can remember (6’4" in 9th grade), but i definately don’t have a big mouth.
also in my first year on varsity hockey (10th grade) a teammate of only 5’8" got in a 90 second 1 on 1 fight on the ice with about 100 kids from school in attendance watching and the fight showed on the local sports channel. while my teammate got in a couple shitty punches he got about 4-5 solid ones to the face but stayed on feet and the other kid didn’t, so while technically my teammate got his ass kicked people either remembered that he can take a punch or he was the last one standing, either way people never fucked with the kid.
learn to take a punch so that if you happen to not be so lucky as to get in the first hit you’re still good to go and have your wits about you