[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]CircaThursday wrote:
[quote]batman730 wrote:
[quote]LondonBoxer123 wrote:
Mind set and perhaps willingness/ability to deploy weapons is the game changer in non-scripted, non-competition based violence. Mind set really is what matters. So to answer your question, the right 130lbs girl, against some body builder, might well smash his head in with a rock and not stop pounding 'til he’s no threat to anyone. Most people, male or female, do not have the mind set to fair well in ungoverned violence. No competition based combat in itself equips you to win a mismatched fight against an opponent who may be playing by a separate set of rules (in the case of your example, technique (karate) vs (strength/size)). Doesn’t mean she won’t still fuck him up. One of the things I learned working doors was that it’s amazing how ready women can be to throw down, and to dramatically escalate a situation in levels of violence. Underestimate people at your peril, at least when it comes to violence. A healthy disdain for the cognitive efficiency of most of humanity is probably fairly legitimate. [/quote]
Pretty much this, as well as what Sento said earlier.
It really comes down to which Karate Girl vs which Bodybuilder Dude. People win fights, systems/styles don’t. I’ve known some big guys who couldn’t/wouldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag and a few girls who would just stab the guy and be done with it. It’s about real aggression and who has it. That’s not something you build in a the gym or the dojo, IMO. If the guy has an aversion to hitting women (as most of us do) that can go a long way to equalizing the disparity in size and strength if she has no such compunctions. I know I ended up playing paddycake with a few belligerent drunk girls while working the door who I would have dropped pretty quickly had they been guys behaving in the same manner. I was younger then.
That being said, if she wins it won’t be because she “used Karate” per se but rather because she engaged first with speed, surprise and violence of action and employed asymmetrical rules of engagement combined with animal savagery and unalloyed intent to tear the guy a new one before he really knew he was in a fight. Karate technique will probably have almost nothing to do with it. Structured technique of any kind rarely has anything to do with real world violence. In fact, her training may actually do more harm than good as the stark difference between the reality of a street encounter and what happens in a typical dojo can cause brainlock in a lot of cases.
It’s kind of an odd question though.
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so karate training will not save a person from a more powerful vicious opponent in a weaponless fight?
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No type of training will save a person if they lack the resolve to apply it viciously. Even in the absence of any training at all, resolve and aggression alone are often adequate to win the day. Karate specifically, especially the type of no-contact-mcdojo-cardio-kickboxing variety you have described to set up your scenario is not at all combat effective IMO, so no, it will not in and of itself overcome the massive disparity you have set up in your scenario.
In fact, if we change your scenario to 2 dudes of equal size and strength and one has a mcdojo black belt but no real aggression or resolve and the other has no training but a high level of aggression and resolve and a real will to do the other guy harm, my money’s on the untrained guy.
As far as a weaponless fight, no such thing outside a ring/cage.
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thanks that is informative