If you was to fight today?

GeoGiant · Brown Belt

For me, I wonder how long it will take for me to get beyond the shock of being in an altercation. I’m 37 and I don’t think I’ve been a “fight” since middle school so it has been awhile. It is one thing if the fight occurs after some type of an exchange but what if it is a sucker punch type attack. Since I don’t train like a police officer I assume that there will some lag time between… “what just happened”… “I’m being attacked”… “Evaluate & defend”.

RW · Green Belt

If I were in a fight (a REAL fight) I'd probably try things such as a soccer kick to the knee (or maybe a side kick to the knee, karate style) or hitting the ear with my open hand (to cause loss of balance).

We could say, I'd try "weird", unusual, "out of the box" things that I'd think that the other guy would not expect, and that could probably end the fight with that one blow.

kamahlthedruid · Orange Belt

If I were to fight today, I would be confident only against yellow and orange belts at other schools because I learned a lot in three months at a school called ISD, and from my dad who taught me some moves from itf taekwondo. I did controlled sparring only as a white belt. As a person goes up in belt ranking, he or she has to do more hardcore sparring at ISD! My senseis at isd taught me very practical self defense and dirty fighting.

etali · Yellow Belt

I haven't been doing a martial art for very long. I have had cause to defend myself on three occasions in my life, and on all of those occasions I did OK. I'm female, and each case was a single, male attacker, unarmed. Two of the occasions were muggers (I went to college in a rough area). They were expecting easy prey, and when they grabbed me I reflexively flailed / kneed them, or hit them over the head with a very heavy bag of college books. Then ran away as fast as possible (I used to run competitively, so was fast, and could run for longer than most "normal" people).

I now live in a much nicer area, and don't anticipate any more trouble, but if I ever did have cause to defend myself, I think that right now I'd probably fall back to the same crazed / shock the person by being a lunatic defence.

My style of Karate does involve sparing, and I'm finding that when I'm up against men my short stature means that if I'm close enough to hit them (even with a kick), they're close enough to grab me. I have learned a lot about blocking incoming hits, but at my current level of experience (very low), I don't think I would rely on anything I've learned in the dojo as a way to end a fight.

JiuJitsuNation · Green Belt

I'm 6'1" 230 lb brazilian jiu jitsu blackbelt, tatted from head to toe, bald, intimidating and most confident. Typical I know. I have been in a few altercations and did well subduing the misguided individuals without hurting myself or them. One of which the guy dwarfed me! I feel as though I am in control everywhere I go. But there is always a fear of the unknown in the back of my mind. Just as those guys didn't realize who the were about to tangle with... neither do I. it's our minds that will save us then. Being alert and observant will allow us to recognize a situation that we can't handle moments before it gets to that point.
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StrangeBacon · Orange Belt

We'll do a fair bit of training while yelling at each other and making agressive behavior so that if we did have to fight at a certain moment especially in a mugging the idea would be to be more used to that bodily reaction of freezing up when confronted with an attacker yelling at you and getting in your face, and being able to more effectively deal with that threat.

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JiuJitsuNation · Green Belt

Kensei723 · White Belt

Simple answer, do nothing which is of no use.
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wolverine uskf · Yellow Belt

I've been in real street situations, befor and after i started learning martial arts, and yes the proper training helps, but the 2 on 1 live training, and the full contact 1on1 sparring from striking to grappling until someone is either just covering up or submiting on the ground ( with safety equipment so you still have training partners) is the best thing i've ever found to prepare you for the street. No you can't do this every session, but once or twice a month is a big help for real world confidence. Even with all the gear on we still got the idea of what works, and what needs improvement.

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