Lameman
Green Belt
I've already posted a couple of times, but I thought, why not. When I was 4 I was getting beat up on a nearly daily bases, by two brothers, and their three friends. Any one of which was easily twice my size. The school of hard knocks taught me how to take a beating. But didn't teach me how to fight. When I got tired of getting beat up I found an oak tree. And that oak tree kicked my butt. But it taught me how to fight. Don't use force against force, unless you are trying to cause damage, flow with your opponant. The use of circular hand motions to both defend and attack. When I was 15, I was in the process of destroying my life, I got involved in a gang. One of those gang members, not only taught me. How to fight, but more importantly how not to. The best self defence is avoiding dangerous situations. His lessons not only saved my life in real, dangerous situations, but he is the reason I was able to get out and start making better dicisions. From there, I joined the army, but got injured in basic. Now I work part time for almost no money. I still work out and train everyday. I just don't have people to talk to about fighting. This looked like a good, friendly forum so, I'm giving it a try. Maybe streetfighting isn't a real martial art. But technique, is just means to an end. A fight is 90% psychology. If you know how to read an opponant and they can't read you, that's most of the fight right there. From there its just what and when. Even poor technique, used effectivly can win a fight. Further having fought proffessionally trained fighters, highly skilled technique used ineffectivly might as well be dancing. Oh yeah, those brothers, the next time we met, I won that fight, but that's a story for another day.
