How to (mentally) prepare myself for a fight? *updated*

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SludgeFactory

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Originally posted by: Richdog
It just doesnt solve anything and in my opinion just makes you look stupid and shows you cant use your wit, which far outweighs the fleeting satisfaction you get from 'making someone bleed'.
Yes. At the age of 20, you should be fully capable of verbally defending and counterattacking. If you admit defeat in that arena and resort to physical violence, you're basically admitting you're nothing but a big, stupid farm animal.

But if you must, go with some moves that stand the test of time.
 

CPA

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Originally posted by: poopaskoopa
I wouldn't worry about a 30-something man who's telling everyone how he can kick a certain 20 year old's ass....

I'm 30-something and I can probably kick your ass.






:D;)
 

Red Dawn

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I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.

You're no man, you are a Nancyboy. I wouldn't doubt if you were some Trailer Park Bubba's little bitch who uses the Internet to boost your own low self esteem by talking such nonsense.
 

dabuddha

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Originally posted by: Red Dawn
I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.

You're no man, you are a Nancyboy. I wouldn't doubt if you were some Trailer Park Bubba's little bitch who uses the Internet to boost your own low self esteem by talking such nonsense.

LOL
 

NikPreviousAcct

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I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.
Like we said. If you have to ask, you're fvcked.
 

Gulzakar

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I think the saying goes:

"not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"

your gonna get whooped.

Humility is a great lesson!
 

Jzero

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I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.

ROFL
I guess I feel like my honor is strong enough that it doesn't get bruised by some sh!t-talking pvssy.
 

AlienCraft

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<stayed out of this until the update.
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#1. This thread is enough to add "Aggravated Assault" to any charges. Perhaps "Laying in Wait" as well.
#2. You don't have to throw the first punch in order to go to jail. Disturbing the Peace/ Disorderly Conduct and Mutual Combat spring right to mind.
#3. If you can knock someone out with one punch, you can KILL someone with one punch. That is a different charge and consequence , entirely. Maybe you need to rethink how much this really affects you right now, as opposewd to wasting 5 years or more with legal BS.
#4. No matter what happens here, there will always be someone out there, talking smack AND able to kick your ass too. What ya gonna do, take on the whole damn world? Something to think about on the way up...
#5. Chances are NO ONE CARES what he's saying , anyway. When you go off, people are going to add you to the list of "Idiots I Once Worked With".

Learn to IGNORE IT. You'll be better off in the long run.

 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: AlienCraft
<stayed out of this until the update.
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#1. This thread is enough to add "Aggravated Assault" to any charges. Perhaps "Laying in Wait" as well.
#2. You don't have to throw the first punch in order to go to jail. Disturbing the Peace/ Disorderly Conduct and Mutual Combat spring right to mind.
#3. If you can knock someone out with one punch, you can KILL someone with one punch. That is a different charge and consequence , entirely. Maybe you need to rethink how much this really affects you right now, as opposewd to wasting 5 years or more with legal BS.
#4. No matter what happens here, there will always be someone out there, talking smack AND able to kick your ass too. What ya gonna do, take on the whole damn world? Something to think about on the way up...
#5. Chances are NO ONE CARES what he's saying , anyway. When you go off, people are going to add you to the list of "Idiots I Once Worked With".

Learn to IGNORE IT. You'll be better off in the long run.
ATOT wouldn't ATOT if we didn't have an occasional Salad Tosser like Krauss posting his Bullocks.

 

Richdog

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UPDATE - I now hope he kicks your ass because any slight sympathy I had towards you has been washed away with all the drivel youve written. If you dont want to be insulted in a thread dont be such a dlck. Most of the advice youve had from people in here had been 100% sound, and if you dont want our fvcking opinions dont fvcking ask for them. Oops, bit of a rant that... LOL ;)
 

brxndxn

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Okay.. my advice (after having been in a ton of fights in high school):

First of all, you will probably get your ass kicked. I would say 60/40 chance. If the guy has been in a true fight before and you never have, you won't know how the hell to hold yourself when your adrenaline goes higher than it's ever been. From my experience, adrenaline will go so high that you will feel like you had way too much caffeine. Every decision you make with be a second guess - this means you'll hesitate every time you're about to do anything that would actually hurt him. An actual fight is based much more on experience than anything else. I know this because confidence matters. Also, don't worry about getting hurt - nothing will be very painful when your adrenaline is really high.

However, the problem with fighting is that you WANT to hurt him - beat the crap out of him. But, you cannot beat him up enough to send him to the hospital. Something tells me, though, that this guy would probably acknowledge an ass-kicking and he'd let everything be settled at the fight.

Also, when you punch, punch through his face - aim for the back of his head. If your fist stops at his face, you'll never knock him out. You gotta punch a guy VERY hard to knock them out.

BTW, please learn how to hold your fists. If you put your thumb inside your fist, you might as well kill yourself now. Perhaps you should consult a diagram on the internet for proper thumb position in a fist fight. :p

When the fight first starts, throw punches with your lesser hand. It will expose him for a nicely-positioned stronger hand punch.

Also, this guy WILL move faster than you. You will be ass-slow compared to a guy that's been in a fight before. But, don't give up during the fight. I had a fight once that I almost gave up - but I kept going at it and things turned around.

I really don't agree with the other people in this thread as I believe it is human nature to fight to settle things once and for all. From my experience, after you win a fight with someone, they will respect you and it will be much easier to get along with them. If you lose a fight to someone, and you take your loss like a man, he will still respect you.

Size really doesn't matter in a fight near as much as experience.
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: brxndxn
Okay.. my advice (after having been in a ton of fights in high school):

First of all, you will probably get your ass kicked. I would say 60/40 chance. If the guy has been in a true fight before and you never have, you won't know how the hell to hold yourself when your adrenaline goes higher than it's ever been. From my experience, adrenaline will go so high that you will feel like you had way too much caffeine. Every decision you make with be a second guess - this means you'll hesitate every time you're about to do anything that would actually hurt him. An actual fight is based much more on experience than anything else. I know this because confidence matters. Also, don't worry about getting hurt - nothing will be very painful when your adrenaline is really high.

However, the problem with fighting is that you WANT to hurt him - beat the crap out of him. But, you cannot beat him up enough to send him to the hospital. Something tells me, though, that this guy would probably acknowledge an ass-kicking and he'd let everything be settled at the fight.

Also, when you punch, punch through his face - aim for the back of his head. If your fist stops at his face, you'll never knock him out. You gotta punch a guy VERY hard to knock them out.

BTW, please learn how to hold your fists. If you put your thumb inside your fist, you might as well kill yourself now. Perhaps you should consult a diagram on the internet for proper thumb position in a fist fight. :p

When the fight first starts, throw punches with your lesser hand. It will expose him for a nicely-positioned stronger hand punch.

Also, this guy WILL move faster than you. You will be ass-slow compared to a guy that's been in a fight before. But, don't give up during the fight. I had a fight once that I almost gave up - but I kept going at it and things turned around.

I really don't agree with the other people in this thread as I believe it is human nature to fight to settle things once and for all. From my experience, after you win a fight with someone, they will respect you and it will be much easier to get along with them. If you lose a fight to someone, and you take your loss like a man, he will still respect you.

Size really doesn't matter in a fight near as much as experience.
So you got your ass beat a lot in High School huh?
 

Krassus

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Originally posted by: brxndxn
Okay.. my advice (after having been in a ton of fights in high school):

First of all, you will probably get your ass kicked. I would say 60/40 chance. If the guy has been in a true fight before and you never have, you won't know how the hell to hold yourself when your adrenaline goes higher than it's ever been. From my experience, adrenaline will go so high that you will feel like you had way too much caffeine. Every decision you make with be a second guess - this means you'll hesitate every time you're about to do anything that would actually hurt him. An actual fight is based much more on experience than anything else. I know this because confidence matters. Also, don't worry about getting hurt - nothing will be very painful when your adrenaline is really high.

However, the problem with fighting is that you WANT to hurt him - beat the crap out of him. But, you cannot beat him up enough to send him to the hospital. Something tells me, though, that this guy would probably acknowledge an ass-kicking and he'd let everything be settled at the fight.

Also, when you punch, punch through his face - aim for the back of his head. If your fist stops at his face, you'll never knock him out. You gotta punch a guy VERY hard to knock them out.

BTW, please learn how to hold your fists. If you put your thumb inside your fist, you might as well kill yourself now. Perhaps you should consult a diagram on the internet for proper thumb position in a fist fight. :p

When the fight first starts, throw punches with your lesser hand. It will expose him for a nicely-positioned stronger hand punch.

Also, this guy WILL move faster than you. You will be ass-slow compared to a guy that's been in a fight before. But, don't give up during the fight. I had a fight once that I almost gave up - but I kept going at it and things turned around.

I really don't agree with the other people in this thread as I believe it is human nature to fight to settle things once and for all. From my experience, after you win a fight with someone, they will respect you and it will be much easier to get along with them. If you lose a fight to someone, and you take your loss like a man, he will still respect you.

Size really doesn't matter in a fight near as much as experience.
Well said. One of the scaffles i mentioned was back in high school, with a guy i just met. We seemed to hate eachother from the moment we met, but after the fight, we never argued again, respected eachother and actually became pretty good friends. And that worked out better for both of us than walking around and talking sh1t behind eachothers' backs for 4 years would have.
 

Yax

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Originally posted by: Krassus
Originally posted by: brxndxn
Okay.. my advice (after having been in a ton of fights in high school):

First of all, you will probably get your ass kicked. I would say 60/40 chance. If the guy has been in a true fight before and you never have, you won't know how the hell to hold yourself when your adrenaline goes higher than it's ever been. From my experience, adrenaline will go so high that you will feel like you had way too much caffeine. Every decision you make with be a second guess - this means you'll hesitate every time you're about to do anything that would actually hurt him. An actual fight is based much more on experience than anything else. I know this because confidence matters. Also, don't worry about getting hurt - nothing will be very painful when your adrenaline is really high.

However, the problem with fighting is that you WANT to hurt him - beat the crap out of him. But, you cannot beat him up enough to send him to the hospital. Something tells me, though, that this guy would probably acknowledge an ass-kicking and he'd let everything be settled at the fight.

Also, when you punch, punch through his face - aim for the back of his head. If your fist stops at his face, you'll never knock him out. You gotta punch a guy VERY hard to knock them out.

BTW, please learn how to hold your fists. If you put your thumb inside your fist, you might as well kill yourself now. Perhaps you should consult a diagram on the internet for proper thumb position in a fist fight. :p

When the fight first starts, throw punches with your lesser hand. It will expose him for a nicely-positioned stronger hand punch.

Also, this guy WILL move faster than you. You will be ass-slow compared to a guy that's been in a fight before. But, don't give up during the fight. I had a fight once that I almost gave up - but I kept going at it and things turned around.

I really don't agree with the other people in this thread as I believe it is human nature to fight to settle things once and for all. From my experience, after you win a fight with someone, they will respect you and it will be much easier to get along with them. If you lose a fight to someone, and you take your loss like a man, he will still respect you.

Size really doesn't matter in a fight near as much as experience.
Well said. One of the scaffles i mentioned was back in high school, with a guy i just met. We seemed to hate eachother from the moment we met, but after the fight, we never argued again, respected eachother and actually became pretty good friends. And that worked out better for both of us than walking around and talking sh1t behind eachothers' backs for 4 years would have.

I disagree, if I'm in a fight with someone I don't know and he kicks my bass. I move on since I probably won't see him again, but if its with someone who I know, he'd have to kill me to stop me. I would not expect any respect nor give any back. If he only puts me in the hospital, when I return, I'll bring a better weapon. Something that will disable him to the point where he can't come back to get me. Basically, I'd kill him if I could get away with it, otherwise, blind him or break both his arms, etc. He who laughs last, laughs best you know. Its that simple. But most of the time, I'd just rather not fight at all.
 

isaacmacdonald

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Originally posted by: Krassus
I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.


good call mr. quixote, let me know how the windmills hold up-
 

Yossarian

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Has Krassus been sending a lot of PMs to set up fisticuffs with all the people verbally bitch-slapping him in this thread?? I haven't gotten mine yet fyi :(
 

Rogue

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I got in a lot of fights, as a young, cocksure kid. Once I got out of high school and became a Military Policeman, I realized that settling things by fighting is really pretty pointless. Granted, I still get the urge to beat the ever lovin' $hit out of someone once in a while, but it's really not worth the energy. Be straight up with this guy, tell him that his bull$hit will come to an end and that if it continues, you'll file harrassment claims, etc against him. There's nothing more pleasing than seeing a guy walked off the job because he was a jackass.

Now, on the flip side. I wrestled for more than 8 years growing up. It turned me into a formidable adversary, able to take immense amounts of pain and dish even more back. I was training on different control tactics to employ on criminals/drunks and the instructor called me out. He tried and tried and tried to take me down and subdue me and ended up breaking my thumb in the process and still never applied those handcuffs to me. Later on we wrestled for about 2 minutes and he was physically drained and although I was exhausted, having been out of the sport for almost 7 years or so, I knew exactly what it was like to be that fatigued and how my muscles and my body would react. I ended up winning that scuffle too and we were really going at it. Point is, you've never been in a fight, you've never wrestled and probably never adapted to or known what coping with immense amounts of pain is. I can honestly say that one fight I got in I got sucker punched dead in the middle of my forehead and it immediately started to swell. Although my vision was blurred and I was dazed, I still managed to get hold of that guy and beat the $hit out of him. I'd been dazed many times before in matches and you learn to work through it and continue on. You don't have this nor do you understand how long it takes to build it and adapt to working through it. My thoughts, you're gonna lose just based on inexperience alone.
 

imported_Papi

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Fighting usually just comes normally... if you have to mentally syke yourself up, maybe its better you don't bother, chances are youll get your ass kicked
 

DivideBYZero

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Yo! Krassus,

I been hearin' yo sum kinda hard ass. Well see, I think yo nuttin' but sum b!tch ass pansy cheesecake who takes it where the sun don't shine.

So here's the deal, bro. I wanna fight you. I wanna fight you real bad. I wanna mess you up so bad yo momma gonna need dental records to recognize yo ass. Dig?

But there's just one thing. Gimme 1 day to check out how to fight on the internet first, bro, cause I aint had a fight b4, except I can kick azz at CS, fo sho.

So don't B talking shiznit 'bout me understand? Or i'll be on tha forums faster than a mofo, then it's ur ass!
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Yo! Krassus,

I been hearin' yo sum kinda hard ass. Well see, I think yo nuttin' but sum b!tch ass pansy cheesecake who takes it where the sun don't shine.

So here's the deal, bro. I wanna fight you. I wanna fight you real bad. I wanna mess you up so bad yo momma gonna need dental records to recognize yo ass. Dig?

But there's just one thing. Gimme 1 day to check out how to fight on the internet first, bro, cause I aint had a fight b4, except I can kick azz at CS, fo sho.

So don't B talking shiznit 'bout me understand? Or i'll be on tha forums faster than a mofo, then it's ur ass!
LOL! :D
 

Hossenfeffer

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I'd also like to say thanks for a good laugh to all the pansies who had the nerve to ridicule me because of this. Just because your grandmother told you it's alright to cry yourself to sleep after being bullied on in school, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. As someone wisely pointed out, you're all making it painfully obvious that you're trying to make yourself feel better about yourselves by making your weakness look like a virtue. But unlike you, i'm a man, and as a man, i have an established set of principles, beliefs and values. I have honor. And i would fight and die for that as willingly as i would for a loved one. I'm sorry if you can't grasp that concept.
Bwah. Honor, my ass. You're a male. You're being "male".

You = typical.

Seriously, a "fight" isn't worth your time.

You don't have to fight. Ignore this guy. Only step if this guy actually comes to you and strikes out at you. No point otherwise. If he is crazy enough to come up and fight you fight back. Unless he does its pointless........
Couldn't have said it any better. Have you realized that there is no point to this quest you're on? Stop picking on the windmills.
 

Daniel

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Originally posted by: brxndxn

Also, when you punch, punch through his face - aim for the back of his head. If your fist stops at his face, you'll never knock him out. You gotta punch a guy VERY hard to knock them out.

BTW, please learn how to hold your fists. If you put your thumb inside your fist, you might as well kill yourself now. Perhaps you should consult a diagram on the internet for proper thumb position in a fist fight. :p


No no no... you aim for 4-6 inches in front of his face and make sound effects when it is going to hit, that way he gets all freaked out thinking you know video game kung fu which is the strongest kind available, once he realizes that he will back down and never bother you again. As an added bonus you don't hurt yourself actually hitting him.

As for the second part, you should put your thumb in your fist, that makes it just like holding a roll of nickles and makes the punch stronger, you know... more solid fist and all. This is only as a last resort if he doesn't know about the video game kung fu stuff and stop earlier. If you are going to punch him aim for the upper forehead as it is one of the weakest spots on the body and a sure KO.

Good luck.