Either way, because of it I nearly died. Now I'm totaly anti smoking, drugs, etc etc just because of that. My mother, and one of my sisters smoke as well, I tell them to stop, so I'm not just picking on you (or Sam!):o
Sam, I know some of the 'slight moves' you're talking about. However in the heat of the moment, you don't have time to look up your little kung-fu book, because some drug addicted is coming at you with clenched fists. Some of them (the moves) can also lead to death or permanent paralization, to be honest I'd like to think they'd prefer a broken nose.
If they pull a knife you just hit them as hard as possible and then run, simple really. I dont know shit, strange seeings that I used to do Martial Arts which made me see why fighting on the streets is wrong and should only be done in controlled environments where their are rules and disipline/respect.
I hear a good one is a facepalm to the bridge of the nose. Causes temporary blindness, and leaves no mark apart from a sore nose.
Although, can't say I've ever had to. In most cases it's just easier to give over your wallet or phone or whatever. Especially with the amount of knife crime going on, just not worth standing up for a phone on your own. If I was in a group with the majority though...
I did some martial arts too. It doesn't teach you that fighting on the streets is wrong, it teaches you how to get yourself out of situations on the street that may develop. But I think you need to be at quite a high grade before everything is second nature enough to do much good. Novices and the first, say, 5 or 6 belts won't have much, if any, benefit.
I haven't done that much, I done motorcross when I was 5 and stopped when I was 8. And when I was 11 I took up Mixed Martial Arts, but at the moment I cant do it but I am in talks with my instructors to see if I will be able to do it again as I could make my pelvis worse.
Maybe if you are only learning one martial arts but when you learn a few you pick up on the techniques, it may not come second nature to you sometimes but you just remember what to do in certain situations. Best thing to normally do is walk away if they try to confront you, had that last week at school, lad tried having a pop just laughed and walked off and just said ok have a nice day then. Gets to them more as they are trying to make you turn when in fact you piss them off with just laughing at them, and 9 time out of 10 they just walk off but some people will still carry on, you just say something for them to hit you first and then just hit them back and make them go slightly dizzy and walk off.
Problem with that is you usually end up getting a kidney punch or possibly a knife to the back (not in your situation though hopefully :razz. If it's a guy your own age that's doing it, chances are he's a pussy. Smack him down
As for the topic, I like Furiously-Fast's suggestion. Although I have an improvement. Go to one of those "change" machines you get in arcades and whatnot. Keep splitting the money until it's in the smallest denominations possible, preferably 1 or 2p. Then just randomly drop them, throw them, roll them whatever. Might be fun for a while
My opinion is that people who use weapons to fight one on one other than those weapons you are born with are pussy's. I would love to say to someone who pulls out a knife drop that and fight like a man and see if they walk away or try fighting without the knife, I reckon they would walk away. People who carry knifes are proberly scared themselves so they carry one to make them feel bigger then everyone else. You most likely wouldn't have the time to do that though, you would have to hit them straight away and run.
Not always the case, one of my mates's dad is a "Gangster" has been stabbed himself and constantly carries a knife, id put a bet on no-one in the forum being able to bring him down without one though, not saying its smart, just that not all people that carry knifes can't fight without a knife, not saying its good or smart, just saying...
If you carry a knife you can get a big jail sentence, you also increase the risk of being a victim of knife crime if you carry one. All this talk about fighting, being hard and knowing self defense and all that is a bit wierd to me, the only things I need to survive a fight is a pair of working legs and some running shoes.
Why do you even need to hit them? If someone pulls a knife out and you see it just bloody run away from them not towards them! Just so you can hit them and then come home and go "dad dad someone tried to knife me but its okay i punched him first and then ran away".
I've never been in a fist fight and I never intend to be honest. If someone hits you and you even touch them back you could go to jail for assault too. Its just better not to go out and get in fights at all.
And even then when you punch someone they have proof of injury and you might end up with assault charges because you have no solid evidence of them carrying a knife,
You can get the better of someone who has a knife, as long as you have the strength and a decent punch. My dad has had one pulled out on him twice and both times he has knocked the bloke with the knife.
I hope I will never be in the situation where I get a knife pulled out on me.
You probably will 8/10 get stabbed, you arent going to have a chance better than your average person at not being stabbed because your dad has been able to fend off a guy with a knife
I didn't mean I could because my Dad can. It was just to show some people will have a go to fend off someone with a knife, my Dad though is physically very strong(not as strong as he used to be though, he's an old git now lol), a lot stronger then the average Joe, so the chances of the average Joe coming out on top is most unlikely. I would to be able to fend off someone with a knife, but wouldn't anyone.
The idea is that the guy who's trying to mug you never knows if you'll try to fight. A gun, a knife, whatever - it's meant to scare you into giving in easily. He won't lose the advantage because this isn't a film and he doesn't want honour - he probably wants to buy his next hit.
OT - I've only ever been in one fist fight. I didn't through a punch, but the School Bully laid about 10 on me as hard as he could. Of course he weighed like 15 stone and couldn't punch for shit so it didn't actually hurt... I tried fighting back, but that's just not me - I'm sure strength wise I probably could of caused some pain (i'm a wimp but he had no muscle all flab), but I just needed the adrenalin to do so - and it just didn't come. I'd imagine that if anyone tried to hurt my GF i'd get it, but of course if that did happen i'd probably still have the crap beaten out of me...
EDIT - In short, a Knife is a penis extension. Obviously a LOT of people could have their knives used against them because they don't have "teh skills" the people they are trying to scare do, but a hell of a lot of the time all it takes is the guy to get the rush of adrenalin to the head, and try to be a hero, and for the other guy to lunge forward...
