Real life fight stories anyone???

[BlackDragon]

I know martial arts teaches us to restrain from fighting unless you absoulty have to, but lets face it. Fights happen, and sometimes we're caught up....

I'm just curious to know how many of you ever been in real life fight situations, and what happend/how was it handled?
Been in fights regularly? only a few times? Or never is fine too if you just want to add your 2cents feel free
Also was it before or after you got into martial arts?

As for me, I usually try to avoid fights. I've only been in two "real life" fights in my entire 24 years of living, both in the elementary/middle school. I was about 12. This was before any official training in martial arts began for me.

The first time it was the class clown/bully. I use to get bullied quite frequently in elementary school(because i've always been the quiet type). So, in a way I had something to prove. But still tried to resist fighting. The guy kept walking by me in the class room popping me in the head, and I just sat there and took it all in(secretly plotting and planing for when I had gotten enough) Then he further got under my skin by preceeding to pick on my then school yard sweet heart. From that moment I had determinded that I was going to teach him a lesson. So the final time he walked by to pop me in the head. I calmly stood up, faced him,and punched him dead in the nose. Then as he was stunned. I preceeded to slaming him into the walls and into desks until we were pulled apart. From that day forward. No one ever bothered me ever again.

The second one was when some one who was my age, starting pushing my little bro around who is 7years younger on the school bus. I politly told them to stop, and before I knew it, I was being attacked. I was pinned against the window so then I pushed them off me with my legs to the opposite window pinning them to the window, gave two punches, and by that time I realized the fight was over and I was being pulled off of my opponient.

Other times have arised to where I could've gotten into a whole lot of other fights. But as I said, I stay away from fighting unless I feel I absolutly have to.

Since then and since I've been trained in martial arts I've never fought. Besides, during the time of my martial arts training my parents said if I start to get into a lot of fights that they would stop me from my training. Back then that was great motivation for me not to fight Hopfully, I'll never have to fight.

I hope to hear some of your real life fight stories if you have any, if not, feel free to add your 2 cents in about anything if you like!

[cjgrappler]

I've been in a few (mainly for taking up for people that couldn't fight well, or younger people that was being picked on, or taking up for women). Most of my fights I ended them with a power punch that shook their head up. Haven't been in a fight in along time (I avoid them). But if someone messed with my family, I'd be in their face. Most people that knows me, doesn't try to get on my badside. Which actually... I don't like people to be scared of me either. That causes problems... like with my brother in law... he pulled out a knife on me when he knew he crossed the line trying to hurt my wife. But he ended up calling the police on himself to get them to come out (we were at his Mom's and I have respect for her not to mess up her house). But if he would've came outside... he would've been mine and he knew that.

[Broken Wings]

Yeah same here, I try to avoid fights, but if Im forced into the position of having to defend myself or others, I will relish the oppertunity. I was attacked in the street a few weeks ago, a simple throw followed by an elbow/wrist breaking technique soon put him right. As I grew up in Northern Ireland, violence was fairly common. Ive been attacked by someone with a steel spike, just for wearing an England football shirt! He received a snapped wrist, outwards crescent kick to the face and reverse side kick to the ribs. He stayed DOWN.

[BlackDragon]

Originally Posted by Broken Wings

Yeah same here, I try to avoid fights, but if Im forced into the position of having to defend myself or others, I will relish the oppertunity. I was attacked in the street a few weeks ago, a simple throw followed by an elbow/wrist breaking technique soon put him right. As I grew up in Northern Ireland, violence was fairly common. Ive been attacked by someone with a steel spike, just for wearing an England football shirt! He received a snapped wrist, outwards crescent kick to the face and reverse side kick to the ribs. He stayed DOWN.

Wow, seems like you did just get attacked out of no where. There are some mad people out there though that would attack you for various reasons especially if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Martial arts can come in handy. We may never know when an oppourtunity comes in which we may need to use it in a real situation.

[complete]

These are some fascinating stories. I'm glad to see there are no one abusing their honed skills for wrong purpose.

[NinjaMaster]

I remember reading an old Chinese novels and the main character in the story was a great warrior and the righteous man. However, because someone else was jealous of him, he framed the main character and the main character had to go exlie. When his friend/servant asked him why not confront the bad guy and fight? The main character said, to fight and beat someone is the 3rd best way. The best way is to never create the enemy. And the second best way, if you were not fortunate enough to do #1, it is to avoid the conflict as much as possible. Only when those 2 options are not available, you fight to win. This is so different from most people jumping to #3 as their first option.

A great lesson I still remember.

[The B]

I've never really been in a proper fight, lotsa play fights though (i have two brothers lol). The funny thing is that i was inspired to start martial arts because i was punched in the face by some kid when i was about 10 years old, the best defense i found was a nearby branch to whack him in the head with. I had no idea how to fight then and in an ever more increasingly dangerous world - that worried me. But not only did martial arts teach me how to fight, they taught me when and where fighting is neccesary and that almost all situations can be resolved verbally. This is not to say that martial arts are useless and if you learn the verbal resolutions in the first place, then you don't need them. The fact is that when that is not an option, martial arts becomes your best buddy. Also i think knowing you can kick someones ass through your martial arts training is enough to give you the confidence and maturity to have a passive approach to confrontations.

[JaysonEmo]

heh heh do you wanna go by theme or chronological order....i been in a ton...some were funny....some hurt....most were entertaining...some were shocking...but i really enjoyed them all

[Chapel]

Originally Posted by Stash

heh heh do you wanna go by theme or chronological order....i been in a ton...some were funny....some hurt....most were entertaining...some were shocking...but i really enjoyed them all

You enjoyed them? Who you are a sick twisted individual, never change.

[Shinobi_Kokujin]

bein a knuckle-head from the caribbean hood -turned drunken sailor -turned gi joe i got quite a bit

heres one of my more memorable ones

was stationed in virginia at the time. me an my roomate went to va beach club called Abyss

we had jus gotten promoted so we were celebrating an got trashed.
roomate went to the dancefloor. he ended up dancing with some chick.

i was talking to another lady at the bar. when i glanced over at him, there were these 2 guys stadind in front of my roomate looking kinda confrontational. apparently the chick my roomate was dancing with was one the guy's girlfriend an he was jealous

my roomate was so thrashed he didnt really know what was going on, he was jus palming the girl's booty an dancing away. so i walked over to them and asked the guys if they had a problem, excuse my homey, he had a bit too much to drink.

but u could tell that these guys were the type that was jus looking for an excuse to throw some blows so one of them stepped to me like he was gonna push me to incite a fight, so i dodged him an went into a tkd stance lol. this cleared the dance floor, then the 2 guys walked off.

so me an my roomate went to go sit at the bar. then couple minutes later, the 2 guys show up with like 15 other people behind them. come to find out they are a bunch of Skate-boarders an breakdancers.

one guy rushed my roomate with a haymaker sucker punch an floors him. roomate got knocked out cold an just layed there. i guess thats what Jack Daniels liquor does to you.

the rest of the gang piles on me. so i just bent low, covered my head an ran to the other end of the bar blocking thier blows. when i reached to the end i just started throwing kicks an punches wildly, this kinda suprised them an they backed off

the guy who tried to push me earlier came at me an we ended up going one-on-one. i punched him in the nose an broke it. blood ended up all over my white shirt (dammit) then i threw a roundhouse kick at his head. i was so drunk i couldnt maintain balance an we both fell down. he didnt get back up though lol.

then the next thing i knew i was picked up by this Giant supersized Bouncer an he carried me while a couple other bouncers carried my roomate an tossed us outside like a couple of ragdolls.

they were working on clearing out the other guys from the club so i grabbed up roomate an headed to the hotel across the street to crash out there before the cops showed up since we were so drunk we couldnt drive home.

[Chapel]

Its interesting how many fight stories feature intoxication.

[disgruntled]

never been in a fight, well that wasn't me beating on my brothers.... one time someone tried to hit me but i blocked it.

[RiveraRa]

4 memorable fights as a kid...

1) Before MA. 3rd grade I was the new kid in the school. I was walking home and some kid (we must have exchanged words in class...I cant remember) run from behind me and jumped on my back knocking me to the ground. He then threw some punches and elbows to my back and I couldnt get him off of me. So yeah...I got jacked up!

2) Post MA. I was in 5th grade. Some 6th grade kid on the bus that didnt like me and was sitting in the seat across from me. He kept punching me in the arm. I told him to stop. After a few times I said, if you hit me again Im going to hurt you. He did so I punched him in the face so hard he hit his head on the wondow and his glasses flew off. The bus driver took us off the bus and he kept saying...im going to break your nose! lol. Funny thing is that a few years later (4years or so) we became friends. One day we were talking and he says....remember that time we fought on the bus and I had you pinned on the floor and beat you up? I just laughed.

3)Post MA. On the way home from school this kid wanted to fight me and I said no. So he just started running after me throwing punches as he came. I side stepped once or twice and said to let it go. He came at me a 3rd time and I stuck him with a side kick that ended it.

4) And lastly....more of a warning. Another after school fight. Some kid was comming at me and as I backed up I triped over a bush. He managed to clip my eye giving me a nice shiner on the way down. The warning is to always be aware of your surroundings! The funny thing is now, 15 or so years later...that bush is taller than me!

[disgruntled]

RiveraRa i can't help but notice that only your first fight was pre-MA, is that a conincidence or is that why you started MA?

[GojuFreak]

Ive been in a few at the pub, mostly some d@&kheads just gettin all macho cause they're "drunk", the other few where at school in yr8 it was the thing to do (gettin into fights) i was the overweight kid and some other over weighted kid came over and start punchin my in the gut, so i stepped up and unleashed some head shots when he was bent over holding his face i started uppercuting him in the gut. After that day mum got me out of that school because it wasnt the "right" school, ahha nah i was happy when i left. apart from tht its just been intoxicated fights.