If “cup checks” count, I need to change my vote
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Definitely a serious commitment. I don’t think you need to practice moves outside of class to be pretty good though, as long as you’re going 3 times a week you should be good. The biggest thing for me was cardio, grappling while super tired is super miserable so I would have to work out a lot outside of class to avoid it.
It’s also normal to just become completely obsessed with it. I would watch videos all the time on how to counter moves someone hit on me in class, I would think about it while I laid down to sleep, and of course I would drive my gf crazy practicing moves on her.
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Yeah, the dude raining blows at the end was like waiting for the ref to call the fight. But, no ref.
Tried to elbow someone in the balls when I was getting choked out. Didn’t work. He was on his knees, with them spread, and his damn jeans were stretched too tight across the crotch area. By elbow just bounced off the fabric.
Definitely don’t want to teach her the moves lest you find yourself on the wrong side of an argument.
Brought that up when I took a date out for axe throwing. Unique idea for a date but a pretty terrible idea for a long-term relationship.
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I’d mention that these folks were unmasked and failing to maintain distance. Shame on them.
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I literally changed my vote from no to yes because of this lol
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Prolly needs an “as an adult” or something as well. I kicked someone in the balls in primary school. Not since then.
Also never been in a fight as an adult, I’ve never had someone challenge me and have never found myself in a spot where I had to defend someone else physically, stuff has always de-escalated before it got to that point. I’m tall so that might be part of it but I’m not that big so I kind of doubt that comes into play.
When my brother wrestled in high school, he’d always come home from practice super hyper and looking to try out some moves on me. It was all fun and games until one day he hit me with a surprise double leg and I almost landed in the fireplace.
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I suppose I may be way out of line here, but I got in a lot of scraps where punches were thrown. Only time I ever got seriously hurt was when I was breaking up a fight between two friends and got my nose broken in the fray.
Last one I got into was some schlub rugby player in college who probably could have taken me in normal circumstances, but he was a lot drunker than I was.
Only got suspended once though. Some dweeb took a hostess cupcake and smashed it against my head in the middle of the cafeteria in 8th grade. A response had to be made, I threw a punch and knocked him down and then the teacher got there. I was a lot bigger than that idiot though.
Probably been in 5 or 6 fights where real punches were thrown? I mostly played the peacemaker between friends who fought over stupid shit. I was also the guy who talked to cops in our friend group.
I’m about as suburban white privileged as you can get. Maybe I’m the weird one.
Man IME wrestlers are the second craziest group of guys, only the cross country guys were weirder. Something about crazy cardio and inducing pain on yourself led to some serious weird activities in those groups.
Also had a friend who I weighed literally a hundred pounds more consistently challenge me to wrestling matches. That guy was a lot of fun but borderline insane.
The cross country guys were the strangest set in showers and locker rooms ime. In college we shared a shower area with the track and long distance runners and I saw a lot of weird shit. Never hung around wrestlers much but I’d always laugh when I saw them jogging around the school in a 5 layers of cloths and trash bag suit trying to drop water weight
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I don’t understand why people get into fights where nobody gets hurt.
My stance is that I don’t want to fight, but if you put me in a position where I feel I have no other choice, I will hurt you. I don’t need to prove I’m a tough guy. I don’t need to show my dominance. I don’t need to respond to every little aggression. You can talk shit to me all night long and I won’t react, but I will stand my ground.
If you force me to fight, my goal is get it over quick, with the maximum damage in the shortest amount of time. A knee to the groin. A thumb to the eye. A strike to the back of the head.
Guns are killing machines. You shouldn’t use guns simply for fun, but guns do have uses. Fights aren’t a way to have fun and shouldn’t be a way of blowing off steam. You should mostly only fight if you intend to hurt someone. Shoving each other or rolling around on the ground because you don’t want to look weak is stupid and pointless. I can’t imagine bothering to fight with someone who I wasn’t hoping to either kill or cripple just like I can’t imagine pointing a gun at someone who I don’t intend to kill or cripple.
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This is how I imagine a fight involving a UPer. 
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They released the biggest song of the year 6 (?) years ago and never even played a show after releasing it when they could have sold out a stadium tour and headlined every festival. Insane to be able to just do that.
I can’t imagine getting into a fight unless I was trying to help someone else in which case I wouldn’t be trying to do maximum damage.
I am not physically imposing and I have poor cardio. I’m probably not winning a long fight, so my goal is to end it quickly, reaching into a bag full of dirty tricks to accomplish that. I’ve been threatened often enough to where I have felt the need to think about what I would do.
If I want to help someone who is being attacked, my initial impulse is to try to come up from behind the attacker and strike a blow to the back of the neck or head. And I will pick up a makeshift weapon to land that blow if I can. It just strikes me as completely inefficient to do anything else. If I do anything else, it would probably be to clip the attacker in the knee. I’m not going to try to pull two people apart because that’s just not in my skill set.
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I understand that, but regardless of how strong you are or imposing there’s probably some situation where you can intervene without needing to maximize damage without great risk to yourself, even if it’s just stopping some 12 year old from beating up a 9 year old.
eta: Any other situation where I might get into a “fight”, like I’m being mugged, yeah, you’re right, there’s no need to demonstrate dominance or be careful about injuring your attacker. Find the best way to get out of it with the least damage to yourself as fast as possible.
Yep. Any kind of hard fall where your head hits the concrete can be deadly or often close too it. My step-f-in-law who recently died was 95 and so him being old was a big part of it, but the primary reason was he fell and hit his head in a parking lot.