rat-salute-2 I figured you knew since you're laying down the sweet science like that but I wanted to add for anyone else reading. Yeah I for real did not experience the kind of casual violence many people and many people here have encountered either in the home or on the schoolyard, in the neighborhood, or on the mean streets as adults, and I do not envy that experience.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I got the hat trick. I've experienced all three lol.

More advice: take your shirt off. This has a couple components. People who scrapped before will know you are for real, if your opponents are experienced they will recognize this and might go into negotiation mode. If your opponents are probable going to try to fight you anyway but don't know why you are taking your shirt off they will be offput. Removing your shirt makes it much harder for people to get purchase on you so taking off loose clothing can be helpful. If you wear in open jacket this can also be used to your advantage by keeping it on in the case someone grabs you, you can shed layers of clothes to get out of their grasp. Learn to instictually shed layers when appliccable. Also there is a reason skinheads cut off all their hair. One less thing to grab.

Fighting multiple aggressors: Identify the front man of the group and do the first thing, suprise knock them the fuck out. Now one of two things will happen: the others back off, they try to grapple with you (hence removing the shirt) what you want to do now if people come at you from multiple sides is to plant you feet and throw your weight backward. This will destabilize whoever is behind you and set you up to rotate into the type of punch I described above. During this time you will probably have to shrug off a couple lumps but your adrenalin will be through the roof you won't really even feel anything till after the fact. So you've knocked away the third party, clocked the second party.

Now you are going to heel turn and replant that back foot in the direction of the last guy you punched and repeat that same hip rotation and follow through on the one in front of you now, who in this 1v3 hypothetical is now in front of you.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago

All facts