Fight

[pgm316]

Real life situations! Please tell us some situations you have been in, how you’ve managed to handle it. I don’t want to know how you’ve kicked somebody’s head in for looking at your girlfriend/boyfriend! Hopefully learning about fights etc people have been in will give others some insight into better handling any situation they find themselves in.

[Chazz]

When i first started teaching and opened a school, it got around through the town what i had done. During one class the topic of "when should i fight" came up. We we talked about how using other means than fignting to get through a fight. (Talk, Walk, defend, react). The next night, my off night i went to shoot pool with some buds of mine. Well i got the chance to practice what i preach. To make it short some exbasketball players wanted to start something, well me being a wise ass just joked about it, made them look stupid infront of the pool hall and walked away with them so pissed off they didnt know what to do.

Thats mi fight stories. I dont get into pety fight. Its not worth my time so stand there and hit someone. I have too much respect for myself.

[waya]

I had a similar situation at Wal-Mart the other night. I was outside the store with two friends and was messing around before we left kicking and stuff, and this guy comes out and starts running his mouth about martial artists always get their asses kicked. Since it was about 2am I decided running was a bad plan since he was at the door, so I walked toward him and started to politely explain the difference between sport and combat training, talking about pressure points, lock applications, etc. The guy actually stopped running his mouth and listened to me, then left after we had talked for a bit. I'm extremely glad he did too because he made about 4 of my little butt in size!!! lol. I think he was used to seeing the students from the McDojo's here and not someone that's confident. In reality I thought I was going to wet myself if I got too close to him because he weighed somewhere around 300 and was about 6'4. And definitely very confident and able to handle himself. Had he been different and grabbed me, I'd probably be typing from down in the parking lot pavement somewhere lol. Taught me something I had forgotten about confidence and attitude to take control of a situation.

Rob

[Chazz]

There is a lot of that going on and a lot of martial artist thinking their ready for thing that they are not.

[waya]

That's my whole issue with McDojo's. Alot of their students would have run their mouths to that human house, and ended up in ICU over it.

Rob

[morphus]

You'd have to pretty thick to pick a fight with a human tank like the one waya faced, and even more stupid to be confident of handling him with ease. Nice job on talking your way out of a situation. I hope i got that right!

[pgm316]

In my last confrontation I was defending a friend, the attacker had already hit the dj and put the barmaid flying. I moved the attacker away from my friend and got the first punch in. But my nemesis piled into me with a few messy punches. Being in a crowded area it was difficult to step back to put any clean blocks or punches in. After taking a few shots on the arms I pulled his head into a front head lock and replied with a few shots to the ribs. This managed to wind him and pretty much put him out of the fight.

I really don't think I had much choice as he was trying to kick my friend in the head. However I was still lucky to get away when the police arrived, but thats another story!

[waya]

LOL Morphus, I wasn't picking it. If there'd been no other option I'd have gone for it, but I wouldn't have played games about it either, he had tons of size and reach on me. I'm glad I was able to talk enough to take the situation away, and save myself some serious injuries that I would have likely had whether I won or lost.

Rob

[morphus]

No, i know - i didn't mean you waya, i meant just about anybody, it was just bad gramma. lol:D

This is a problem sometimes on any forum, sometimes what we write here comes over in the wrong way, i should have listened more in English language at school. lol

[pgm316]

Either people keep a low profile around here or there keeping quiet about their scraps………

I manage to get myself in bad situations, it seems a bad area for people wanting to fight each other like baboons marking there territory.

I’ve talked my way out of a lot of situations, most happened for no apparent reason apart from being in the wrong place at the wrong time, others stupid arguments over taxi’s or being accused of stealing somebody’s women (don’t they know girls have free will too!?).

I had an American football player accuse me of stealing his girlfriend, he was a big fat 6’5” 20 stone tub of lard. He went berserk, it would have been an interesting fight. He knew I did martial arts, which must have put him off because I think he was as wary of me as I was of him! So in the end I managed to calm him down, not easy to stay calm yourself in that situation. The girl and her friend was terrified.

I was in another similar situation about business this time. It was another big person. Sometimes you can try and talk the situation down, but I could only feel it only go worse and worse. By the time he lifted his hands up I thought I’m not going to even try and talk. Instead I put two good roundhouse kicks into his floating ribs, or thereabout. Into the same side. It was his own fault for lifting his hands up and giving me a nice target to aim at! Did the job though and put him on the ground for a while!

[LilBunnyRabbit]

Worked in a pub for a while. One of the busy nights a customer came up to the bar drunk, and started demanding free drinks. Naturally we refused to serve him. He took a lunge at me, I side-slipped, snagged his head and pulled it down into the bar. He bounced off, took two steps back, and sat down for a while. After a little time the bouncers managed to get through the crowds and carry him out.

[morphus]

Since taking martial arts up i haven't had one altercation, not even come close, but having said that there have been a few dodgy situations, that i saw brewing and had the good sence to avoid - part of the awareness that martial arts has taught me? I think/hope so!

I'll just keep training for the day it comes.

[Saz]

I get quite nervous about fighting cos I get always the idea that my opponent will be way better than me and I'll get my ar$e kicked. :)

I've only ever had one serious fight since taking up MA. I usually try and talk my way out of a fight, or run away, but I couldn't get away this time. I was in a pub when an old friend from school i'd got talking to was bragging about how good he was at judo. Having heard it all before from him, I said 'yeah, whatever mate' at which point he said 'I'll show you then shall I?' and started choking me with the pool cue he'd been playing with. I managed to do a reverse kick and luckily hit him where it hurts most and then elbowed him in the face. Then I picked up the pool cue and broke it in two on his head. He spent the rest of the night avoiding me like the plauge! What kind of man has to not only pick on a girl, but use a pool cue to prove their good at MA? :woo:

[waya]

Probably one that's closest claim to ma training is watching the Power Rangers and imitating them? lol

Has this friend really experienced training? I'd throw someone who behaved in that manner out immediately.

Rob

[stump]

When in Uni I was an acommodation warden which meant basically i had to make sure everyone kept the rules, no drugs, no antisocial behaviour and no noise after a certain time at night. he guy who lived next door to me was a bit of a **** when he got drunk, which unfortunately was often. One night he got pissed off with a couple of other guys at a big party we were having and went to his room to get some weapons.....for some reason he had a hammer and a screwdriver in his room....to this day i don't know why!!!

I caught him coming out of his room with the hammer and promptly disarmed him, and calmed him down a bit. Afterwards he went back into his room and the sneaky ******* tried to take out the screwdriver so I disarmed him again and confiscated both of them. You can imagine there could have been trouble had he got them back to the party.

The same night the guy started slapping his girlfriend around so I had to step in there. What was funny was I never had to use martial arts to defend myself. As some of the residents trained in the same gym as me they knew I did martial arts. But rumours got around that I was an Irish champion (I'm not!) and basically a hard ******* and not to be messed with(wrong again!!!) !!!!! I said nothing to dispel the rumours as they made my job easier, but I thought it was funny, again confidence is a wonderful tool.

Thankfully I've never had to really use MA. I can normally stop fights before they start by posturing, showmanship, grovelling, apologising or a combination of all of the above. Awareness and not getting too drunk to sober up quickly are a good way to stay out of trouble

Colin

[pgm316]

I know we try and avoid them as much as possible, but when we get into these "real" situations there a valuable experience, something you can never get in the gym. You find out how you handle the threat of real conflict. Or maybe even how you’re well honed fighting skills work as the situation degenerates into a messy brawl.