And if you have, was it scary, embarrassing, justified, or one of those “yeah… I was young and dumb” moments?
I used to get into little fights with my boy cousins when I was a kid, but nothing serious…
I've been in a handful of fights. I was a major league smart-ass when I was a kid and did not realize people were intimidated by me. I've only been beaten twice.
First time was on the playground, right before the fight he kicked my backpack and when I went to kick his it didn't budge, and my whole body flipped around it. Gym teacher drove past and broke us up before we could square up again. Very embarrassing.
Second was because it would have been inappropriate to fight back. It was my mother's boyfriend, he was arguing about something that was too explosive and complicated to talk about right then and there and I didn't want the cops called there while we were moving out of the apartment. So I smiled in his face when he went full mount and started throwing punches at my face. I told him how much of a weak and disappointing loser he was for not being able to beat me when I'm not even fighting back.
I went back to moving the stuff out to the moving truck where he was smoking cigarettes and yelling profanities in the courtyard of our complex.
It's fine, I beat him more than once previously. I guess that's why I found it funny. It's like was there really any doubt in anyone's mind what would have happened if I fought back? 😂
The guy had no sense of honor. And the fact I did really pissed him off. It made him look bad. It made him look weak and childish. Even to this day he still bites the hands of people trying to feed him because he convinces himself they need him.
If anything I feel bad for him.
Of course. In elementary school, middle school and high school. I usually got away with it, but in elementary school, I asked myself to be sent home. The one in high school, I got full day detention, 'cuz it was right in front of the teacher. I thought the guy was just play fighting, but apparently he wasn't. I lied to the principle though, 'cuz I didn't wanna get suspended 'cuz it was my crush's birthday, and I had a present for her. We were going in and out of the office for like 3 days. The principle eventually just gave me an "in school suspension", which is basically a full day detention. I think the other guy got it too, but what was weird is one of my buddies who wasn't even involved in the fight got it as well. But at least I wasn't alone. It felt like jail though. They put us in a room with covered windows, and we were only allowed to do homework, and I think we had to pick up trash, and they let us out for lunch outside of usual lunch hours, so we couldn't interact with anyone. I poked a hole in the paper covering the window, and the guy who was watching us got so mad, but he didn't actually see me do it, so I just told him it was already like that. And since he didn't actually see me do it, he couldn't prove that I DID, so I didn't get in trouble for it.
Ah ya yaye. Crazy times.
Not since 3rd grade when I got into fight with some bitch named Corina, right when school was letting out. She and I exchanged more than a few punches, and she was pulling my hair, and I full force cold-clocked her upside the head with my plastic lunch box, (BAM!!!) knocking her to the ground, and simultaneously watching my thermos jettison out and go flying across the blacktop, which I abandoned and quickly ran home afterward. Aside from that, no.
Yes when I was a kid. I got into a fight with a boy who was way bigger than me and when I was winning he spit on me. Traumatizing me for life.
I was also in a fight with a girl much older than me and much bigger than me. She won of course but I was so angry I was going to throw a brick at her head but my friends held me back. I think I was only 6 or 7 and she was like 14.
What the actual fuck? I'm pretty sure that's assaulting a minor and child abuse. You should've reported her. Too bad they held you back. At your age, you would've gotten away with it, and the bitch had it coming. But seriously, you should've reported her. She committed child abuse. That's a serious and jailable offense.
Yeah I wanted to tell but I was afraid that she would just get out and do something worse to me.
Damn. What was her issue with you?
I can't remember. I think she was just a big bully.
No shit😂
We had a guy like that in my old neighborhood, but his demeanor changed when he saw us playing tug of war😂
Lol 😂
@Simslover92 I am sort of surprised at this, and maybe a little turned on.
@exitseven and I am sort of surprised at that lol
Wow wtf…I’m sorry that happened to you @Simslover92…
But also proud of you for standing up for yourself…
@7Phoenix7 thank you!
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Yes, many fights from 6th grade until my last fist fight at 21. For my last fight, my girlfriend now wife told me about a guy who spit in her face at a party while I was at Fort Drum. She insisted that when I came home that I immediately kick his ass. I literally went to his house, knocked on his door, asked for him and out came a shirtless body builder. I then kicked his ass on his front lawn in front of his brother and neighbors. I opened up his face/cheek which was bleeding.
My friends kept his friends at bay as they wanted to jump in. I told his brother if he didn’t call my girlfriend and apologize that I would be back as that was the deal if I stopped. I was less than a year out for Army Basic Training so I was in great shape.
The rest of my fights were probably caused by my big mouth. I won more than my fair share of them. I was suspended for 3 days as a Freshman in High School, I was only jn school for 6 weeks so Mom was pissed. I beat the crap out of someone in the cafeteria. I thought he was sitting in my seat in a class earlier that day but he actually wasn’t funny enough I later realized. He came over to me to start shit after that class while we were in the cafeteria and it didn’t work out for him after him taking the first punch. I learned early on to keep punching and he received a crowd pleasing flurry of them. He came over to back the next year for round 2 and I destroyed him on the parking lot in front of 100 kids I would guess. No punishment that go round as teachers weren’t around.
Yup , but back when fighting meant a physical brawl , stopping when it was obvious either had the upper hand. Nowadays you’re very likely to have a knife or worse pulled on you , that changes things significantly.
Getting into a fight and suffering or inflicting a few bruises or a bloody nose is one thing but there are very few things worth risking a life over.
In other words , when men fight like men it’s fine but when little ‘bitches’ be bringing blades etc , well it’s no longer a fight.
I've been in my share. Thankfully not in the last 25 years or so.
Being in a fight isn't fun. Usually, even if you win, you get hurt. And you won't always win.
I was fortunate enough never to have to fight a real fighter - someone with real training and experience - because that kind of person could easily kill you. There are plenty of people who could have put me in the ground.
Fighting isn't glamorous, it's dangerous. You never know when someone has a weapon, or if 6 of their friends will jump in. It's something you do when it's the only option, but you try your best to avoid being in such situations.
Many. Most of them were dumb. If I analyzed them closely enough, I might be able to suggest that they were all dumb. I even feel guilty about a couple of them.
I have put my hands on people in defense of others though. I think some people would suggest that is justifiable violence.
There is an underlying truth. Nobody is right all of the time, and nobody is wrong all of the time. So I think that it’s likely that violence can neither be right all of the time nor wrong all of the time. It’s arguable that any given system of morality is merely an attempt to define when bad behavior is acceptable and when good behavior is not.
I've been only ever been in one real fight as an adult, not counting scuffles on the playground in school.
The first was when my then girlfriend's ex tried to rape her. Long story short, she called me in a panic because he showed up at her place, forced his way inside, and was violently trying to take advantage of her when the call got cut off.
I raced over there, and called the cops on my way, but I beat them to the house, ran inside, and pulled him off of her. We fought for a while before the cops finally finished their donuts and bothered to show up. It was probably only like three minutes, but seemed a hell of a lot longer.
Anyway, the cops separated us, and hauled him off to jail. My girlfriend and I went to the hospital, mostly to get her checked out, but they took care of a few cuts that I had sustained, as well, but no serious injuries.
Serious crazy shit there wow
@Maybe_Maybe_not Yeah; it was not exactly a fun experience, to say the least.
I understand. I had a couple of bad fights myself that I didn't necessarily win or lose but got pretty beat up in before I figure it out that it wasn't worth it and I could get really badly injured. If I wasn't careful. Then I got married to a woman who thought that provoking fight between me and some other strange guy was a fun thing to do and sort of cute. It wasn't fun and it wasn't cute at all and all it took was one of those fights with a lot of injuries on both sides before I figured out that I don't fight for women anymore Under any circumstances. they can do their own damn fighting since they keep telling me how tough they are and they don't need men. I'm walking down the street and I see a guy assaulting some woman and trying to rape her? I'm going to keep right on walking in the most. I might do if I have the distance and the time is call the cops on my phone while I keep walking. That's it.
I don't have to do anything. I don't know where you live but there's no law here in the US that says I have to call the cops because I see somebody doing something illegal. Sometimes calling the cops is a good choice and sometimes calling the cops would be a bad choice. Sometimes when the cops arrive they create more problems than they solve. Some situations are so bad that you don't call the cops because you are worried that the cops are going to be in terrible danger.
Something illegal lol, what an obnoxious choice of words to talk about sexual assault. It's a humane standpoint I'm talking about damn, not a legal one. You don't need laws to teach you how to behave humanely right?
This isn't just self-preservation, this is self-preservation and defective empathy, simultaneously
@Maybe_Maybe_not no, I don't think you understand what empathy actually is. I am entitled to protect myself, and sometimes that means I'm going to decline to be involved in certain things rather than actively get myself into danger, just because you seem to think that demonstrates some sort of misplaced courage.
@msc545 Well, I assure you I opened a few dictionaries in my life lol, and there's more, I personally related to meanings I read about.
More seriously though, what danger, what courage and what self-preservation are we talking about? It's just a phone call to the cops, about an hypothetical assault, while you're not even in the scene anymore.
I wouldn't want to offend some woman who thought she was tough like a man and didn't need a man. I also can't be bothered to protect women in any way that have absolutely zero regard for men. I'm also not going to involve cops in a situation where they might get injured. Not for something like this. Let the tough independent woman. Take care of herself.
Okay so let's be extra clear about this:
When you see a guy assaulting some woman and trying to rape her, you consider that it's better to not interfere in any way whatsoever, am I correct?
@Maybe_Maybe_not okay, yeah, reasonably I might make a phone call, but I'm sure not gonna go up and say anything to either the woman or the guy trying to rape her. That is a good way to get into a fight and possibly worse than just a fight. A lot of guys find out that when they interfere in things like this, they get badly hurt and sometimes killed by the same guy that's trying to do the rape. You never know if it's her father, or her boyfriend, or her husband, or God knows what his relationship is to her, if any, and he may be very worked up. It's not safe.
Where I live, a lot of people carry guns. I'm not going to confront somebody who might be carrying a gun. Most importantly, I'm not going to risk my life or my safety for some woman. As the women keep telling me, they are tough and independent and don't need men, so they can just fucking well take care of themselves.
"okay, yeah, reasonably I might make a phone call"
This "might" in that sentence, still disturbs me. But at least it's a more encouraging version of you I'm looking at, than the version I was having in mind
Yes several. As a kid from K-2nd grade my cousin would tell me to fight kids and I would. One was a neighbor, one was a kid during recess and the other was a tall fat kid at the middle school pool. In 6th grade he staged a fight against a goliath of a kid who was a sureno who i hid from like the little wuss i am. 7th grade I fought two football teammates after practice and surprisingly came out standing. Had friendly boxing matches from like 8th - 9th grade at friends house and my last ever fight was in Mission Vijeo Cali in 10th grade. A kid in our group, a lacross rich kid was talking trash and stole my phone and tossed it into the trash so I beat his ass in the auditorium/lunchroom.
More times then I can count I did martial arts for a number of years so I fought in a lot of tournaments and championships, been in a few street fights, some regular fist fights and plenty of sparring.
As for how I felt hmm well the first street fight I was in I was a little scared since I got jumped by 4-5 people. The rest were euphoric in a sense there's a certain joy that comes with fighting someone on par with you or stronger, trading blows, reading each others moves, bloodying each other, etc.
Yes. Technically I'm a very, very good technical fighter because I'm highly trained in karate and Japanese Ju Jitsu and a bit lesser trained in Brazillian jiu jitsu. I have 4400 gym hours in karate and JJJ and around 200 gym hours in BJJ not counting practice alone at home on my own, which is how i do most of my training these days.
It's been a long time since I lost a 1vs1 fight, the 7th grade actually.
The only 1vs2 fight I've lost was against two police officers in body armor, and the only reason I failed to beat them is they maced me and then shot me with the stun gun, which KO'd me instantly and caused me to forget the last 30 seconds of the fight. Eye witnesses later told me, because I asked them "what happened before i got hit with the stun gun," and my stepfather was like, "You were kicking the tar out of them with your Karate."
m There must have been one in middle school, since schoolyard fights were rather frequent there, at that time. I vaguely remember me and another boy on the ground, with people around chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!".
In retrospect, I get black mirror vibes about such ambiance, as if, as a collective of kids, we had this urge and pride to reproduce a deep and ancient insanity, the one from Roman arenas.
I think that kids, as a whole, are just a vessel, and clearly what the world does with this vessel ranges from totally atrocious to perfectly fair.
And then, there's the problem of crowd psychology, to which we're all vulnerable to, especially kids who can't realize yet that crowd situations condition them to react in a way that can be fairly far from how they react as an individual
In 3rd grade this mean, and obviously mentally advanced, kid forced me and a fourth grader to fight. We were both apparently afraid of this punk so we beat hell out of each other. Both of us crying, snott hanging out of our noses we slugged away until he said we could stop.
Nine years later a friend and I painted his upholstery with a gallon of piss. It seems he'd parked right next to us at the bowling alley. We'd been drinking beer all evening.
What's even better, he told me that he knew it was I.
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Not since Jr. High.
It's like Eddie Griffin said. "You're supposed to fight when you're young. It lets you know where you fit in on the food chain". "You thought you was Billy badass, then one day you ran into Billy Badass, Billy badass whooped your ass and then you decided, nope i'm good at math."😆
I got into a lot of fights. Won ALL on them. Then i ran into a guy who could REALLY fight. It was the first time i'd actually gotten knocked out. Wasn't nothing cool about that.😆 i really didn't fight after that.
Yes, however, in high school we hired a couple football linemen to help us unload a couple boxcars of oilfield drilling mud. When they saw the amount of weight my brother and I could pick up and move, the thought of fighting us left their minds and word spread. For fun I grabbed one of them one hand roll his t-shirt up in hand lifted him up and planted him on the wall. His feet dangling and the shock in his eyes was enough to let him know don't "F" with either of us. Wanted to play football but we were oilfield and coach wouldn't play oilfield trash.
Yes, and I was almost killed. It started with rape and ended with me fighting for my life. Beware of men. Even ones that seem nice on the surface can snap at any moment.
@Nikki1989
I know what you’re talking about
Yes I have. Against a girl in secondary school. She kept calling me nasty offensive names because a guy she liked was staring at me instead. She even pulled a knife out at me so I tackled her to the ground. She injured a few ribs.
Yeah. Sometimes it's necessary.
Oh hell yeah , many , probably your later statement BUT a few at mature age also , sometimes a point needs to be made.
But yeah , I've been king hit , bashed , smashed in a major Melbourne street , and I have rolled , punched and gouged , taken on bouncers.
Also when I was 18 / 19 / 20 , there were lots a gangs , had fist fights with all , at AFL , New years eve..
All sorts of stuff , extremely regularly..
There's only been a couple times where I got into a fight in my life. One in elementary school and one in high school. Both were instigated by someone trying to bully me and both times I won and surprised them.
When I was younger, people used to underestimate my strength a lot and think I was easy pickings. I'm no fighter and have zero fighting technique or anything, but they learned the hard way I'm not one to get pushed around.
Hand to hand combat is not my first choice. I'd prefer to eliminate a threat before they know what's happening or why. But yes, I've been in hand to hand combat.
I got into a fight with a kid at school. I was in 11th grade and he said he wanted to beat me up after school. It was more pf a wresting match than a fist fight. I had spent the previous two years working out with weights and getting in shape. As we rolled around I noticed a pile of dog shit on the lawn. I rolled him into it and rubbed his face in it. This loudmouth bully gave up in front of all his friends.
yeah, a lot growing up and they just suck lol no matter the reason
like anything can happen and you can't control it. its just rarely worth it
Many many times. Won some lost some. Most of them ending in some cuts and breuses and some of them ending up in having to go to a hospital to stich my wounds.
Not proud of it but I was a trouble maker when I was a child and started fighting other kids on a young age.
Eventually after puberty I realised I needed to start going to a martial arts class so I started Muaythai which stopped me fighting in the streets
I got into a fight with my youngest brother. I was basically pounding on his chest and he got tired of it, so, he pushed me onto my bed. I felt terrible afterwards. After that day, I just talked a good game but wouldn't do anything.
Yes , mainly when I was younger , I am not the type to start fights , but I will fight if I have too , to protect myself or to protect a loved one. So yes I had my fair share of fights and so far I haven’t lost yet lol
I’ve been involved in so many bar knuckle fist fights. It’s incredible from my childhood to up to my late 30s and I’ve never lost one fist fight ever. I like this question. 👍
u @exitseven I guess he wasn’t that tough after all
Yeah but from a long time ago, early teenagers, always won 😄
Yeah, I've been in a few physical fights.. Getting jumped included.. I'm not much of a fighter myself, so they made me want to avoid them.. But I'm not a coward about it.. Just cautious..
Heavens No, I don’t believe that I would be a good fighter, I have been assaulted but I didn’t do anything more than struggle to get away.
@7Phoenix7 I’m just a pussy
Thank goodness no. Sanity always prevailed as things escalated too far.
As far as I can recall I've never actually hit anyone in anger. I used to escape fights with my brothers when they wanted to fight by sitting myself in a bedroom
Ex-gang member. So plenty of fights, three deaths too - two in self -defence.
Nothing outside of scuffles with my sister when I was a kid
Lol. I'm from Philly. I've been in more physical fights by 3rd grade than most people have been in their entire life. I met all of my best friends in a fist fight.
Yep.. I have siblings
Yes in school as a kid and broken up them as an adult.
Yes, with a "friend" of mine when I was young. (now ex-friend).
I have several times, and they were very serious fights. Everyone involved got hurt, including me.
Yes. One a few and lost a few.
But that is a good thing about men. Settle an argument in a fight than mess long term back biting women do
No, I managed to avoid them
Only a fight for your heart. Heh 😈
I'm on the edge of doing that. My neighbor is woman and bullying me and my family and I was thinking of fighting back to put her in her place.
Yes, with my crazy older sister
Yeap. Quite a lot of em
Several times mostly wins And Ties and even a loss
A couple thousand of them...
Yes, I've had a few thrust upon me.
Not since school.
Not since I left school.
Only in high school and younger
In self-defence, when I was just a kid.
Nope.
No, I haven’t.
Too many
I am not a monkey!
Definitely
many
Well I got it but at least in my experience it can be difficult to tell. I once gotten a terrible fight with a guy when I was about 23. After at least an hour of this we were both exhausted and went and had a drink and decided to stop fighting. I had to stop the bleeding on him and myself before we could walk somewhere to find that drink.
u He was a big guy. I went to North Carolina high school for a while. And I would wear a tracksuit to school and the guy used to poke fun of me. What are you doing Wearing pajamas to school and he kept pushing me and pushing me other times until we had it out and there’s a few witnesses, but we didn’t get caught. I never had trouble with him again.
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