[quote]cycobushmaster wrote:
good thread, but there’s some weird damn repsonses. no offense, but i seriously think some of you have never been in a real fight, or have any concept of the law.
if you cause someone serious bodily injury (like taking out an eye or actually breaking some bones), you damn better be (a) in fear of your life and verbalize this, (b), the bad guy better have the means to hurt you (if he’s 5’5" 150lbs and you’re a 6’4" 250 professional boxer this will not work) and (c) the bad guy has threatened you or made threatening gestures. if not, you’re going to jail and probably gonna have a civil suit…
and secondly, throwing some of these techniques out there?? like “i’d use a spinning ninja face smash.” no, you’ll use what you’re trained on, since most people can’t think when they have that adrenal dump. in the vast majority of the street fights i’ve been in, i simply punch them in the face as hard and as fast as i could, usually with a right cross. the scariest thing i’ve seen in fights is when somebody with a black belt tries some complicated technique, gets jammed up and beat up. again, this is why most boxers do well in a fight-they don’t “freeze” or flinch when they get hit, and they’re used to strike a moving target.
i’ve had a guy knee me in the balls, who i promptly picked up by this throat and bounced him off a few walls-so the “nad” shot is not a tried and true technique. if you use it on someone who is an actual fighter, they usually jus tget reall, really mad.
i’ve had a guy do that cool jeet kune do shin stomp on me, too…of course he slipped on some beer as he did it and i ended up kneeing him in the face a couple times.
i’m just saying that some of the techniques thrown out there are not practical for either legal reason, or because many of the users have never used them full speed in training with a real target.[/quote]
We are making almost the same point, with one exception, my post facetiously implies that being in a street fight is retarded and anyone looking for one is more so. If you are trained to end someone, or cripple them as in my post, then you can almost always handle a street fight by not getting into one. And if you cannot avoid it, you can escalate step by step until it ends, one way or the other.
Rolo.