The fighting drove my mom crazy, but my dad more or less encouraged it. He didn’t get out the Super 8 though.
haha their family is crazy af. He was training at the same gym in MN Lesnar was for a bit. Not together or anything like that, just the same gym. His size and abilities make a lot of big people talk shit and put their foot in their mouth and eat pavement.
Oh definitely, I wouldn’t get into a ring with Pacquiao but I’d get on the mat with anyone without fear. There’s a kid I wrestle sometimes who’s got like 50 lbs of muscle on me. He doesn’t hold back but I’m never in danger of getting hurt (granted I know how not to). He pretty much sucks at wrestling but has just enough formal training to mop the floor with me.
Shit, look at me referring to a 26yo as a kid. Being past 30 has already gotten to my head.
Unstuck fight club? Sign me up!
In fact let’s go the whole 9 yards and reboot Project Mayhem. I’ll move into my RV and mastermind the operation. Our first target: ICE. Yall think I’m playing?
The first rule in Project Mayhem is that you don’t talk about Project Mayhem on a public forum.
Ofc not, clearly I’m only joking, and when we take this conversation to encrypted channels don’t expect me to be serious, no sir
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just change schools a lot. you either learn to fight well or develop a good skill for talking your way out of situations. possibly a bit of both
Bit of both here. I’d moved 25+ times by the time I graduated HS.
I moved a ton as well. I don’t think it was 25+, but I went to like 12 elementary schools. I think maybe Aussies fight more than Americans though. I was only in one fight and one little scuffle at school. There were other problems though, like not having friends :( . It was pretty good at some schools though. My parents did make an effort to keep us in one place longer when we were in Jr. High and High School though. My dad took a new job my last year of HS and he moved from Oregon to California on his own and we followed him after I graduated. My little brother was just going into HS that year, so he made a cleaner break too.
I had zero social skills. Home schooled until 5th grade so I honestly had no idea what I was doing… and like most kids who’ve been abused I didn’t have the best impulse control when I’d lose my (considerable) temper. End result was a lot of fights. I really wish I could claim that I was in the right more often, but I honestly just didn’t know how to handle it any other way. At least we moved a lot so I got to keep trying again. 5th-7th was like a Lord of the Flies themed groundhog day for me basically… except the day would start over every 3-4 months lol.
The weirdest thing about the whole era was how little trouble I got in. I think I got suspended for fighting twice? The 90’s were a weird time. I eventually got myself jumped toward the end of 7th grade and figured out that leading with my fists was a bad idea.
As a teenager I trained Tae-Kwon-Do, fought in half-contact tournaments and couldn’t avoid to get in a few fights.
The answer to what to do will widely differ on what kind of fight we’re talking about: subdue random drunk guy, fight a couple of aggressive loudmouths or actually fight for your life?
With the latter eye gouging, elbows to the back of the neck, stomping the throat etc. become options and you definitely don’t want to do that in a random bar fight.
You also don’t want to get on the ground in a UFC style grapple when fighting more than one more person.
Most fights are over pretty quickly. You won’t get into multi round bouts.
In general, I don’t think it matters much what you practice. The most important thing you will learn is confidence which will help you not to panic when a fight starts or when you get punched in the face and to not turn your head. This and not flailing wildly with your arms is already a pretty solid foundation to not lose a fight.