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- From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: How do real fights start?
- Message-ID: <77780@apple.apple.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:16:56 GMT
- References: <memo.898501@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- In article <memo.898501@cix.compulink.co.uk> bburgar@cix.compulink.co.uk writes:
- >>I'd be interested to know (from a wide sample of people) how fights start.
- >>
- >>If you have been in any situation that "kicked off", how did it start?
-
- Several years ago I was working the midnight shift at a 7-11
- in a rough part of Denver. I had been studying Shaolin Kung Fu
- for a while. I had a friend who was a Tae Kwon Do tournament
- fighter who would sometimes come by to talk about training.
-
- One night a fellow came in drunk and asserted that Kung Fu
- was worthless hand-waving, that the Karate he learned in
- the army was far superior. I responded that it might be so.
- He attacked. I deflected the attack into a nearby counter,
- and then ministered in a friendly way to his hands.
-
- >>Was the first move a push, a grab, a punch, a kick, a headbutt etc?
-
- It was a sidehand thrust toward my face, followed by another from the
- other hand. The second one went into the counter.
-
- >>What was the follow up and your counter etc.
-
- I adhered to the outside of each strike with the same-side hand,
- and sidestepped the second one, deflecting it into the counter.
-
- >>How much talk was there before the physical action started and what words
- >>pushed it over the edge into becoming physical?
-
- Very little. I believe my last words were 'you could be right.'
-
- >>At what range did all of the above occur?
-
- The talking happened at the extreme of my kicking range.
- He lunged in for the hand attacks. After he smacked the counter I
- was sympathetic and friendly. He calmed right down and
- became friendly too. He was friendly every time I encounterd
- him after that.
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