Doug

yesterday, i was walking home after school, and some of my mates were in a classroom that i passed doing some revision (we just started our gcse exams) and i went over and we started talking through the window. After about 2 minutes standing there i felt like someone was standing behind me, but before i turned around this guy grabbed me by the hair and slammed my face into the window frame i got hit about 2cm above my right eye and if i hadn't turned my head i would have got hit in the teeth, so anyway i was dazed but i turned around and this guy grabbed me by the throat and tried to choke me (amateur mistake he was squeezing the muscled around my neck and not the windpipe itself)

i broke his choke with my forearms and elbowed him in the face, i fol owed that up with 2 mt round houses to the torso, he then came around and tried to hit me with a wide hook (you know those ones that drunk people throw and you can see coming a mile off) so i sehcoed (guide his fist into your elbow to shatter the knuckles) then jump kneed him in the sternum and elbowed him in the crown of the head! he wend down after that and didn't get back up.
I later found out that the guy was some pissed off 6th former, 2 yrs older than me and a boxer.
MA cross training saves the day once again!

it was the first time id got into a proper fight since i started training, looks like it works

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Tant01

Or not... has that smell to it... A little too perfect to be real...

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Doug

i know what you mean, i couldent really believe that the stuff that i learned was working, but it was, i mean the fact that i now have a huge bruse above my eye, and when i hit the guy, it hurt like nothing else
i hevent even been invited to sparing classes in my gym yet, so i figured if i ever got started on id get my ass handed to me
to be honest, it was a badly written post, it diddend happen that clean but i just wanted to give the general gist of what happend not a blow by blow account. nothing ever happens the way its written down right?

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Mike Brewer

Doug, are you serious? This stinks to high Heaven like a totally made-up story.

• A boxer tried to choke you instead of hitting you?
• He sneak attacked you from behind for no apparent reason?
• You kicked him twice in the body? He didn't cover? He didn't fall down? He didn't move?
• This supposedly trained boxer, when he finally did throw a punch attacked with a wide, sloppy "drunk guy" haymaker?
• And in response to that wild swing, you managed to (a) hit his fist with your elbow, despite it being a wide curving punch (b) jump and knee him in the sternum, and (c) give him a Tony Jaa elbow to the top of the head knocking him - a trained boxer - out cold?

I think you're full of shit.

DickHardman

something tells me this Doug guy is going to fit in just perfectly here at defend.net.

Tom Yum

Sounds like good romance novel material. Whenever I'm in a lady friends room, I like to pick up their romance novels, open 'em up to some random page and start reading the story in the "IN A WORLD!!!" deepened, movie prequel voice.


Good times. Good times.

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TTEscrima

I concur, over the span of 20 years in the Navy as an Master At Arms I've heard, read and taken countless fight reports. This is just another young inexperienced guys BS tale that makes everyone with experience snicker.

Adept

I see, I see...

And when you woke up from this dream, what happened next?

GQchris

You mean you didn't use BJJ to subdue the guy... come on now we all know that Sport BJJ is perfect for the Street Gracie nuthuggers not withstanding

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DickHardman

nah man what are you talking about. the ground is covered with broken glass, fire ants, hot lava, semen, etc....

7r14ngL3Ch0k3

are you sure he was a boxer?

Mike Brewer

Trizzangle, my man...

Not only was he not a boxer - he wasn't even real.

When you're talking about figments of people's imagination, they could be cyborg Bruce Lees and it still turns out the same.


On a more serious note, I recently received a PM regarding my handling of Doug and his obviously fabricated stories. Some folks believe that I am being too harsh for alling Doug out on his falsehoods, and that I might be damaging the poor boy's passion for martial arts. In order to put those fears to rest, allow me to explain something to Doug and to everyone else who shows up here thinking they have to posture and lie about their experiences to gain respect.

One of the first lessons for any martial artist - hell, any MAN - to learn is the abilkity to be honestly self-critical. We have to be able to lay ourselves out there, weaknesses, faults, failings, shortcomings and all, in order to become better than we are. We cannot improve if we cannot honestly acknowledge the reality of our current condition. Put another way, you earn respect by being honest and forthright about who and what you are - not by spinning myths about Tony Jaa or Jackie Chan style fights you wish you'd gotten in.

If you come on like that in a board like this, you're going to catch hell for it. That's a good thing. You should be treated like a schmuck when you act like a schmuck. It helps you learn that you'll be embarrassed and humiliated when you get caught telling lies. So in that vein, Doug, you're a schmuck. You're full of shit, and everyone here knows it. They've called you on it. The only thing you can do to salvage any measure of dignity is to come clean and do better in the future. Trying to stick by an obviously phoney story is only going to make you look more like an idiot. You're young, and we all get it. We won't hold it against you, and no one is going to beat you up for giving in to your desire to be cooler than you are. So learn the lesson. Don't be a douchebag, and don't try to con people who know more than you do.

Really, it's for your own good.

GQchris

It sounded way too perfectly choreographed, LOL... as if it were a Jean Claude Van Damme altercation subduing some overly zealous Cobra Kai, followed up by some unreal super blurry fast Steven Seagal techniques that saves the day.

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GQchris

Great reply Mike, I agree... too many people out there trying to put forth a false image and present something Fake, not just in the Martial Arts community, but life in general.. there's no Honor in this, and this is something that doesn't help anyone at all. Be who you are, and if it means that people won't think you're a badass like Paul Vunak or a UFC Champion, then so be it, it's much more Honorable to be someone authentic than being a fraud.

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Tom Yum

And just when you think you're getting good at something, along comes someone whose trained longer and is better than you who will wipe the floor with ya and make you work harder.

No one likes this, but its the truth.

I enjoy training in martial arts (when I get the chance) and have met an experienced amateur who trained with a very reputable fight team and can hand my ass to me, but I want to improve myself and I believe he can help.

Same thing with my race performances - I am happy when I can run/swim a 'good' time but get smoked by guys who are lightning quick! My goal is to perform like them.

I'm not cool.

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