Why do people almost never kick in street fights?
Real life experience:In year seven, I think, a guy was kicking my skirt. I was wearing a fairly long skirt, and he thought it was fun to kick it. He didn't hit me, but it was still annoying, so I grabbed his leg. This kid had probably watched karate kid or some other martial arts film, cause his first instinct was to kick me with his other leg. Of course he fell flat onto the ground and hurt the back of his head.When I did karate, I focused on my kicks. I can't punch well, and my punch blocks aren't that great either, but kicking worked. To this day, about seven years after I quit, I can still do a mean round house kick. Don't believe me, just ask 200+ lbs Jimmy from my gym to show you his bruise (that's a terrible story that I won't get into). Or ask my ex, whom I managed to kick in his groin from behind, while we were standing face to face (he deserved it, believe me). What I'm saying is that I can kick because I have training. I know how to avoid getting grabbed. I have the technique, the speed, and the knowledge. Most people don't. Most people use these soccer kicks, which are terrible for anything but, you guessed it, soccer. If you want to kick, you gotta lift your thigh so it's at 90 degrees to your body, and then snap out the bottom part of your leg fucking fast. My coach used to say you had to be like a snake. If your leg is caught, good luck, cause you'll need another kind of training for that, or it can be used for a takedown. And only few people have ground fighting training.Why do people almost never kick in street fights?
Where is the best place to punch someone to end a fight?
I can speak from experience. I once got in a fistfight with three frat boys in a dominoes pizza—they were being very disrespectful and loud. They cut in front of me while I was trying to order my pizza and when I said “excuse me” the “leader” looked at me and said, “What boy!?” His friends were laughing while he kept trying to belittle me.He put his hands on my shoulder and looked straight into my eyes. I pushed his hand away from me. He then swung his fist at me. I ducked and then landed a right hook on his jaw. It was a one hit knockout. The entire room went silent. Some people were recording this on their phones, so maybe it’ll be on youtube? His friends escorted him out of the Dominoes. The cashier saw everything and didn’t call the cops because she was on my side.Needless to say, if you can land a hook on the jaw, the impact can cause the jawbone to cut into the brain and disorient someone with minimum effort.I boxed in college, non-professionally. I once got knocked out by one of my best friends. Where did I get hit? It was a straight punch to the nose. Because he was my friend, I lowered my guard, and he took advantage of it. I didn’t lose consciousness, but the pain was enormous and I had to stop fighting. This too depends on how hard you hit and if you’re able to cleanly land the punch.
I saw this one guy crushing another guy in a street fight. One lucky punch turned it around. Is this common?
Ii's called having a punchers chance.It happens much more frequently with unskilled fighters who are not properly covering and almost as often when a skilled fighter fights an unskilled fighter.The skilled fighter is watching for jabs and hooks,punches a trained fighter would throw but the unskilled fighter may throw wild unorthodox punches,ones which leave him open to getting stomped by the better fighter but because the skilled fighter is caught off guard he may not take advantage of the opening ang get tagged.A single punch,kick or throw can end a fight ,it's all a matter of placement.
How do I get good at street fights?
If you must ask, don't ever get into one. You shall never get good. You need to learn to show respect, even for your adversaries, and street fights are disrespectful to you, your adversary, anybody in your vicinity. Street fights are clear signs of physical and mental impotence of all who take part, including the police who may come to break it up, and onlookers, who watch from a distance and call for blood. If you hope to engage in a street fight to demonstrate your sexual power, you will be disappointed, and perhaps carved up like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone. But what if you are a 99% goofball and you simply crave to get out there and participate in a gutter brawl? The best advice I can give you is be prepared. 1) Carry a serious Swiss Army Knife at all times. 2) Remember, nothing in a street fight is unfair, you are putting your worthless life on the line for a rotten reason, so aim not to maim but to kill with every move. 3) Make absolutely sure you have transferred any and all of your property and paid all of your bills before each and every fight. Never violate this edict by fighting when your affairs are out of order because that is sure death. 4) Treat your adversary better than you expect your adversary to treat you. Win without battle, if you can. 5) Repeat the old couplet: "If you fight and run away you'll live to fight another day." 6) If you are asking because your mother, father, sibling, or loved one is secretly dabbling in street fighting, get out of the neighborhood. 7) In a street fight, it is already too late to remain calm; you can't get the whirlpool of blood to stop spinning. Don't get good, dumbass, get out!
Are boxing and MMA effective in a street fight?
Many people learn martial arts to learn how to handle themselves in a real fight. But many martial arts are sports and sports have rules while street fights dont. That means many things happen in fights that arent allowed in certain martial arts.Example Real Street Fight TrainingAlthough it started out as no-holds-barred, mixed martial arts has rules today. Headbutts, groin strikes, eye pokes, biting and stomping a prone opponent, for example, are all banned. That creates an interesting question: How effective are these illegal moves in a real fight?Luckily for us, and unluckily for those who have fallen victim to them, we have seen a few incidents of these prohibited techniques being used over the years, often against the rules, either in MMA or other sports. So we have gotten a look at how effective they are in a fight.Some have been proven entirely legitimate, based on what weve seen, while others might not be nearly as deadly as movie fight scenes might make them seem.In the movies, we see bad guys get knocked out with a head butt by the good guy. But, in reality, does it work that way? Not so much.In boxing, head butts happen accidentally all the time but usually, they just cause cuts and bruises. People arent knocked out by head butts very often, if at all.In the early UFCs, head butts were legal but its never caused a fight to be stopped, even when used on the ground. Ken Shamrock used head butts to pulverize Royce Gracies face in their rematch, but it wasnt so bad that Gracie couldnt fight on. Mark Coleman was another wrestler who used head butts a lot but never knocked anyone out with one.So, are head butts fight-ending? It seems theyre not when were talking about professional fighters, where they cause a lot of cosmetic damage. But when drunk people surprise one another with them, theyre devastating.Hammer fisting was allowed in boxing hundreds of years ago, when it was part of the old Greek Olympics. These days, its not allowed in boxing since those gloves arent padded along the side.In mixed martial arts, the gloves also have no padding on the side but hammer fists are totally allowed. What have we seen happen? People love to hammer fist in MMA and it works very well, although not everywhere.
Is a gun or knife more dangerous to fight against in a street fight?
“Is a gun or knife more dangerous to fight against in a street fight?”It all depends on your ability to maintain a separation. At a distance, there is little you can do with a knife but throw it — once. (And you’re as likely to hit with the handle.)If a distance is not or cannot be maintained, then the knife is more dangerous in that:You have better control over the placement of the wound.You can deploy more wounds, faster.it is easier to grab someone’s gun than to grab their knife blade.A knife will more easily penetrate a kevlar vest.A well-made knife is less likely to suddenly fail to operate.A knife is silent, whereas a gun makes a LOUD noise that could attract the attention of witnesses.A knife is easier to conceal and faster to draw.A knife leaves less evidence as to which weapon specific weapon was used.A knife is cheaper to replace, and easier to dispose of.Aside from distance, the gun’s main advantage is that a user doesn’t have to be as as emotionally hardened to violence. It is easier for most good people to pull a trigger than to smell and feel the destruction of another person’s body; very brutal people have less problem with the latter.It is for most of these reasons that, from 1850 to 1950, the pocket revolver or pocket pistol was considered more the weapon of a gentleman, and the knife the weapon of a thug. Punishments for breaking the law on the carrying of knives were usually considerably more severe than for the unlicensed carrying of guns.Some state-level supreme courts upheld the constitutionality of knife restrictions by arguing that the 2nd Amendment only protected an ordinary private citizen’s right to own and carry the types of weapons appropriate for use in a well-regulated militia.(These were likely the precedents considered in the Supreme Court’s decision on Miller vs. the U.S. in the 1930s in which they reinstated and overturned conviction and sent it back to the lower courts to be decided upon whether a short-barreled shotgun had utility in a militia setting, about which neither prosecutor nor defense had spoken in the lower-court appeal.)
Is a Walther P22 good for home defense?
right on! i also feel shot placement is more important, although having the means to blow someone away is nice... even if it's a little excessive use of force! my policy is that i need to be proficient, at minimum for defense, with every gun i own. I have a phoenix 22 pocket pistol and i am confident protecting myself with it. of course that doesn't mean i don't have some crazy huge caliber with massive amount of energy that can blow someone away... it is my usual home defense gun. not because i feel 22 isn't sufficient, but here in california, it's better to have a dead guy than a live one that can sue me for shooting him because he was trying to kill me. strange how the phillipines work. (strange how california works!) go with your 22, you'll be fine. although if one or two shots fail go for the modified mogadishu drill-> 5 chest, 3 head. he'll be really really dead.
In a true unarmed fight, (no restrictions on techniques or strike placement) would the greatest MMA fighter (greatest in your opinion) beat a Navy seal who was especially proficient in hand to hand combat?
Let’s think this through some…As a general rule, and this comes up in all these—how would a Navy SEAL do against X—type of questions; a specialist will always beat the generalist within the specialist's domain. A college competitive swimmer will beat a Navy SEAL in swimming; a competitive marathon runner will outrun a Navy SEAL, etc. Reason being, they are specialists; the thing, whatever it is, is all they do. Navy SEALs have a lot of disparate skill sets.In reality, Navy SEALs don’t spend that much time—formally—training hand-to-hand combat. They still get more than most and it is pretty intense. Also, the goals of the training are different; the last place a soldier wants to find themselves is in hand to hand combat. If you are in that position, the shit has really hit the fan. So, the training is focused on eliminating the threat as quickly as possible and getting away.However, hand-to-hand training isn’t something SEALS are doing every day, every week or even every month. However, there are Navy SEALs who are quite proficient; certainly, the guys that train other SEALS are good and like any group, there are guys that are dedicated to the discipline on the side. In contrast, the MMA fighter is training nearly every day. So, we are, once again, in the position of putting a specialist against a generalist.The context of the encounter matters as does how we want to define winning. For example, if we put the MMA fighter and the SEAL in the octagon, then I think the MMA fighter wins. This forces the SEAL to fight in a particular way and the benefits of being a specialist weigh in favor of the MMA fighter. However, if we ran a computer model and did the scenario 100 times, I am sure there are a few fights where the SEAL wins.If we make this more of a street fight scenario where neutralizing and escape can define winning, I think the SEAL takes back some advantage. Without the confined space, without the padded octagon, without the fighting accouterments, the MMA fighter and SEAL are on more equal footing. The SEAL can employ a more defensive strategy. In a street fight scenario, I think the win-loss ratio would be more balanced. Who knows, it is all a guessing game.