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[+] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    In addition, check out ShivWorks Instagram page. They use videos of real fights to show just how fast shit starts, ends, and how badly things go. Fights and assaults usually start with someone sucker-punching someone, not with people squaring up.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Do you think someone is going to swagger up to you and announce they're attacking you? Are you going to pull your knife on every man that approaches? Oh you'll only do it for the scary looking guys? Jeffrey Dahmer didn't look real scary did he now.

    Tbf she'd be safe from Ol' Jeff, you or I might have to worry more about him than she would. Bundy OTOH...

    Also oddly it's not usually strangers killing women, men are actually more likely to be killed by a stranger than women, women (out of those murdered of course as murder at all is fairly uncommon) are usually killed by people they know.

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    Crazy graph but I'll attest to it. The difference in pure strength is just massive. We wrestled a lot in the army and our unit had women as well. One of whom had taken taekwondo most of her life. None of them stood a chance against me, and I don't lift and had spent the previous months smoking weed and drinking beer and watching movies. Still, there was absolutely no contest. Even the girls about my height ans weight had no chance. They had more chance than the smaller ones, but still, it was below what most of the shorter dudes could give. I'd say perhaps one of the smaller guys might have lost a bout to one of the women, can't recall, but the point is it was just ridiculously clear how much testosterone makes a difference, even without training or even when women have trained.

    And this is not me saying I can beat all women in wrestling, far from it, I wouldn't stand a chance against even an amateur hobbyist wrestler, but we had no-one who actually wrestled. Well except for one guy, who literally was a semi-pro, had ranked high in European wrestling or something. Dude could toss one of those massive medicine balls to the ceiling of the gym when I got it barely a fifth of the way there or something. He wasn't made to wrestle with the women. Or much anyone. Actually I think the lieutenant made him coach a little iirc.

    Anyways. Agree with your comment, thanks for the neat graph.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Are you just going to get a rapier around with you everywhere you go and fight with one arm behind your back? The only skills you're traveling are the fitness you've gained from training, which is less than that if a runner.

    I'm not a particularly tall guy, around 6'. I wrestled during my youth and completed against guys that were 5' tall and others that were 6'5"+. Both heights had advantages and flaws, but universally, if they were well trained, their height was irrelevant to how skilled they were. Agility is something that can be learned and isn't a unique trait that only you possess and that tall guys don't.

    I can say with absolute certainty that if a guy, tall or short, wanted to attack you, they could close the gap in the amount of time it would take you to get out, open, and ready yourself with a knife. Maybe if they were 100 yards away and yelled that they were going to attack you you'd have a chance.

    Also, what does being sneaky mean in a fight? If you're actively in a fight, you aren't sneaking around. I think one mistake your making is that there are rules in a fight. There aren't. Let's say you have a knife with a 3" blade out and ready to go. If I bullrush you and at the last moment jump up and aim a double leg drop kick at your chest, your just hoping to make contact because the fight is over if you don't end me right there.

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