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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-05-21 06:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #2696 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2696 ⌋

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Re: Martial Arts

[personal profile] needled_ink_1975 2014-05-22 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're talking about cage fights, pal, that's not the sort of fight I'm talking about. I've literally fought for my life (two gay-bashing attacks). Yes, you can add (up to the first attack) 13 years of training. But when you know someone is going to kill you, the training? It moves out of the way, and your ex-lizard hindbrain says, "I only stop fighting when I'm dead."

And that right there is why I won. Twice.

(rings fights I've won--and lost [gotta roll with the losses *grin*]--were fought against even match opponents, same weight)
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Re: Martial Arts

[personal profile] ill_omened 2014-05-22 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I'm talking people with knives sticking out out of vital places. And lifelong street fighters who're cornered getting told they're getting their liberty removed for a very long time if they don't win.

And you're exactly right, unless you've got a lot of experience getting punched in the head with your adrenaline going full tilt, any amount of training goes out the window. Then the bigger person wins, because they're going exactly as bollow as you are.

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Re: Martial Arts

[personal profile] needled_ink_1975 2014-05-22 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I dunno how in hell you make a living out of that (unless you wear some shade of blue and a badge).

The first one, I took the first guy out with one punch, and it shocked the hell out of his buddy, so that was my gap, but I literally do not remember the list of shit I did next (I say a list because I've still got his hospital report, and he was in pieces). I do remember wrenching his right arm right out of its socket, and then having to crawl to a pay phone to call the cops. My injuries were a frickin' litany of breaks and fractures, with a total of 30-odd stitches in various places (I split the skin on my elbow. I guess you know what that takes).

Second one I got lucky and picked up a handy piece of lumber, oh, and there was only one guy. But he punched me in the kidney, from behind, and that was the lizard brain brain "Fight or die" switch. I still got badly hurt, because I guess he experienced the same switch.