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darrianation · 03-31-2003, 11:17 AM

Take a female boxer, have you seen them box? They could kick (punch) the shit out of most men there size and weight unless the man is a world class boxer himself. I agree that in general terms that men are stronger than women pound for pound, that doesn’t mean some women can’t take a punch. Hell a lot of men can’t take a punch. Also remember medically speaking women handle pain better on average than men do.

One thing that’s interesting. The U.S. army did a study of the differences in strength between men and women.
1) Men and women of the same weight- men were only slightly stronger for lower weights. As the weight increased the difference in strength increased(towards the men).
2) They took 20 or 30 women and men (don’t remember how many exactly) of close to the same weight and had them lift a large heavy object together. Women and men separately . They found that individually the strength to be close (men slightly stronger). However collectively the men could lift almost double (1.5) times the women.
They didn’t have a conclusion on this in the article I read.

One thing that really ticks me off is when in women’s self defense class where Larry lunchbox (you know the big padded dummy guy) who runs out of nowhere and grabs the girl. The girl uses some kind of weak palm strike to the face, knee to groin, and second knee to groin. Good ol’ Larry does nothing to defend himself no blocks, no movement to avoid strikes, or grappling. He just simply falls to the ground out cold. And the victorious women dances her victory dance to the applause of the rest of the class. Yea that irks me. Talk about false sense of security. Of course I’ve seen the same from the men.

Lets not think thought that some women cant take a punch. I’ve seen plenty of women who are good fighters and who are serious about their training.

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darrianation Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 2,161 Groans: 0 Groaned at 0 Times in 0 Posts	Take a female boxer, have you seen them box? They could kick (punch) the shit out of most men there size and weight unless the man is a world class boxer himself. I agree that in general terms that men are stronger than women pound for pound, that doesn’t mean some women can’t take a punch. Hell a lot of men can’t take a punch. Also remember medically speaking women handle pain better on average than men do. One thing that’s interesting. The U.S. army did a study of the differences in strength between men and women. 1) Men and women of the same weight- men were only slightly stronger for lower weights. As the weight increased the difference in strength increased(towards the men). 2) They took 20 or 30 women and men (don’t remember how many exactly) of close to the same weight and had them lift a large heavy object together. Women and men separately . They found that individually the strength to be close (men slightly stronger). However collectively the men could lift almost double (1.5) times the women. They didn’t have a conclusion on this in the article I read. One thing that really ticks me off is when in women’s self defense class where Larry lunchbox (you know the big padded dummy guy) who runs out of nowhere and grabs the girl. The girl uses some kind of weak palm strike to the face, knee to groin, and second knee to groin. Good ol’ Larry does nothing to defend himself no blocks, no movement to avoid strikes, or grappling. He just simply falls to the ground out cold. And the victorious women dances her victory dance to the applause of the rest of the class. Yea that irks me. Talk about false sense of security. Of course I’ve seen the same from the men. Lets not think thought that some women cant take a punch. I’ve seen plenty of women who are good fighters and who are serious about their training. __________________ The law of tyranny: 1. Any power that can be abused will be abused 2. Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it. 3. If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail. Welcome to the Socialist States of Amerika . Coming soon Jan 20th 2009!