Fist fights...

[throttleplate]

Keyboard tough guys, show us your muscles? Thought so.

 

 

 

 

[cheezyridr]

i grew up in a rough place.  i fought the same 3-5 guys every single day, from 1st grade to 7th grade. i tried taking a different way home, and about everything i could think of.  these guys came looking for me all the time. my parents wouldn't allow me to learn to fight, like boxing or karate. i took judo for a while,  that and puberty kinda helped make me more trouble than it was worth.  i imagine those guys also moved on as they discovered things more fun than beating on me and a few other kids.

after high school i got into a few fights because my first wife liked to start them for me, but otherwise, none since then. i lost most of the time, but even the times when i won, i hated it.  i'll fight if i have to,  but i avoid it best as i can.

[Bluebasser86]

Haven't thrown many punches, but been in more than my share of fights. I've learned through the years to talk my way out of a fight unless it's just unavoidable. I'm not the guy that enjoys fighting, but it kind of comes with the territory and I can handle my own when needed. Last time I almost got in a fight outside of work was more than 10 years ago in a bar when a guy about chest high on me started poking me in the shoulder and yelling at me. Thankfully, a bouncer noticed him and escorted him outside before it went any further. 

[islandbass]

 I fist fight but once when I was in 1st grade, there was a very aggressive older kid in 3rd or 4th who terrorized everyone but never me. 
 

Then one day he grabbed the books I was carrying out from under me and dashed a short distance away, stopped and turned around to face me. 
 

I asked him to give me back me books and he refused. He said I had to take them from him and he took off.

 

There we’re two things he didn’t know about me. I was super fast (sprinter’s thighs lol) and I was pretty ding dang good in judo despite my age. 
 

I easily caught him and he had to drop my books to take a swing at me. Then the strangest thing. Instinct just took over. I stepped aside to evade his punch and grabbed his punching arm and threw him with a hip throw. It’s been so long but think the name of the throw (phonetically) was called Ogoshi (hip throw) and when my throw put him on the ground I pinned him with one of the judo pins whose name escapes me (kata-gatame?). Anyway, it’s one of the pins a beginner learns. He squirmed and wriggled in the ground but he wasn’t getting away and eventually he yielded. 
 

I told him don’t you ever take my books ever again — and he never did. 
 

What I found weird was that I didn’t even think. My actions came out instinctively and his undisciplined “punch” seemed so slow. I didn’t want to hurt him, I just wanted my books back. 
 

So not a fist fight in the formal sense because while he threw a fist, I didn’t. Or is it still a fist fight, lol?

[Darth-Baiter]

8th grade.  I punched the guy and I felt like a barely registered.  he didnt even react.  I had to change tactics and take it to a ground game.  I actually won...purely out of fear.

 

I'm of Chinese decent.  Texas born.  people picked on me because of the lunches I was packed, my appearance, whatever.  just once, I had had enough.  my mom didnt do me any favors sending me to school lunch room with chopsticks.  hahahha...

 

my big takeaway was that I didnt know how to throw a punch.  I had nothing behind it.  

[DitchPanda]

36 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

8th grade.  I punched the guy and I felt like a barely registered.  he didnt even react.  I had to change tactics and take it to a ground game.  I actually won...purely out of fear.

 

I'm of Chinese decent.  Texas born.  people picked on me because of the lunches I was packed, my appearance, whatever.  just once, I had had enough.  my mom didnt do me any favors sending me to school lunch room with chopsticks.  hahahha...

 

my big takeaway was that I didnt know how to throw a punch.  I had nothing behind it.  

When I was about 10 my dad bought me a pair of boxing gloves. He and my grandpa who boxed in the army taught me how to take care of myself.

[clayton86]

Been in a few growing up when I was younger I was in 7th or 8th grade I think while fishing actually.

 

Then again when I was older a bar fight in a sense. It was right after a deployment and couple of us that deployed together from the same home town went to the only bar in our town. Was close to closing time and there was a Air Force pair of guys that were talking crap to us and we were just laughing it off basically a fire team of grunts getting crap talked by chair force guys. We went out side for a smoke and so did they then they shoved one of the McDonald brothers into the garbage can to start a fight. The other brother and I then jumped on them and were rolling around in the parking lot duking it out. The bouncer(marine vet) came and broke us up. We stood up shook hands laughed and went in and bought eachother shots and a few drinks haha. All the women there were looking as us funny since we were just brawling and then went inside and were drinking like best friends. 

[slonezp]

19 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Haven't thrown many punches, but been in more than my share of fights. I've learned through the years to talk my way out of a fight unless it's just unavoidable. I'm not the guy that enjoys fighting, but it kind of comes with the territory and I can handle my own when needed. Last time I almost got in a fight outside of work was more than 10 years ago in a bar when a guy about chest high on me started poking me in the shoulder and yelling at me. Thankfully, a bouncer noticed him and escorted him outside before it went any further. 

Curious how many scuffles you get in because of your job. 

[Bluebasser86]

2 hours ago, slonezp said:

Curious how many scuffles you get in because of your job. 

Not many, at least not anymore. My first 3 years when I worked in the jail in KCK it was every night, sometimes multiple times. Now, it's a couple times a year usually. I'm really good at talking people down and I'm such a calm person that it just seems to keep other people calm. Of course, I run into those people who just have to get into it and can't be convinced otherwise.

[DitchPanda]

11 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Not many, at least not anymore. My first 3 years when I worked in the jail in KCK it was every night, sometimes multiple times. Now, it's a couple times a year usually. I'm really good at talking people down and I'm such a calm person that it just seems to keep other people calm. Of course, I run into those people who just have to get into it and can't be convinced otherwise.

My good buddy Todd is a county Sheriff's deputy and he is a very calm, laid back guy. He also runs into those knotheads that feel they need to test him from time to time.

[scaleface]

Havent been in a fight since high school , where I had lots of them . I was either a lot tougher than my opponent or he was a lot tougher than me because they all lasted about two seconds  

[NYWayfarer]

I have mastered this technique.
 

I have used wits, subterfuge and trickery to get out of most scraps in my life.

[cheezyridr]

On 1/18/2023 at 1:31 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

 my mom didnt do me any favors sending me to school lunch room with chopsticks.  hahahha...  

 

i guess it depends on the area.  ex#2 used to make bento boxes for her kids.  one day the other students discovered what they brought for lunch. they saw how everything was neatly packaged in the little box, and things like hot dog squids, pandas made from rice and seaweed, little sushi rolls and stuff. next thing you know, they came home with a list, and the wife ended up making dozens of them for the other kids.  they instantly went from being "those asian kids", to everyone's buddy.    during their senior year,  it was common to wake up on a saturday morning and cook breakfast for a dozen+ kids who had been sprawled out in my living room all night.

all because one time, the wife made a few dozen bento boxes for some jr high kids who previously couldn't be bothered to even talk to her kids