Knowing how to fight is the core bedrock foundation of being a manly man. Even women need to try to learn to fight like a man. I teach all the women in my life how to fight, including my dog and my cats. The most important thing about fighting though is having situational awareness, and realizing that in 99% of situations your best bet is to run instead of fight, which is why you also need to be good at running. Another important aspect of fighting is knowing that you are never as good at fighting as you think you are, although I'm pretty confident I could beat up most posters here, namely the liberal ones.
Valid points. For self-defence, running and fighting are essential skills. There is no point in being able to fight if you can't run when three guys are coming at you with machetes. Similarly, for chasing down the mugger who just grabbed your phone.
I've always been puzzled at how you virtually never see a 'self-defence' guru ever talk about running (or more specifically, sprinting). Sometimes they will advise, perhaps only as a disclaimer, that you should 'walk away' from most violent situations, but for a basic survival skill, knowing how to or being able to sprint is as important as knowing how to throw a punch.
The only 'self-defence' type guru who I know who takes an interest in sprinting is George St Pierre, although I'm not sure he regards it as important for self-defence/survival or simply because he is into it as an all-round athlete.
Jocko Willink is another MMA/navy seal guy who advocates running away when facing a fight. He is on record saying he would personally run from a street fight, despite being the type of person that would more than likely kill the other person.
Knowing how to fight is the core bedrock foundation of being a manly man. Even women need to try to learn to fight like a man. I teach all the women in my life how to fight, including my dog and my cats. The most important thing about fighting though is having situational awareness, and realizing that in 99% of situations your best bet is to run instead of fight, which is why you also need to be good at running. Another important aspect of fighting is knowing that you are never as good at fighting as you think you are, although I'm pretty confident I could beat up most posters here, namely the liberal ones.
Unfortunately a lot of young men raised today are not raised with the basic primal skills taught by an adult male in the family. I mean, being hard as a father these days would probably get you slapped with child abuse charges. Our parents grew up in an error where not only were their parents allowed to beat them if they got out of line, but so could the neighborhood. Discipline was enforced and it was harsh. Most men today are not used to getting their butt kicked which is what is a rite of passage in every man's journey. The butt kicking could come from your father, older brothers, or friends at school. But you're not going to learn how to fight until you've lost a fight.
Can’t relate to all this in the modern world at all. I’d do anything at all to defuse a situation so as to avoid a physical fight. The only situation I can imagine where that is not feasible is a mentally deranged person or a criminal committing a crime that you happened to unexpectedly witness.
I think Louie did the smart thing in their clip. It turns out that later (not in the clip) that Louie not standing up against the bullies was a primal turnoff for her, but I really can’t care much for a woman who actually wants her guy to fight back in order to feel attracted to him.
Why would you need to fight if you are good at running?
Because you may be in a confined space where running away is not an option or in some other scenario where you can't just leave. Prime example: A workplace bully. Sure, you can raise a complaint to HR when Todd accosts you in the bathroom and pushes you up against the wall but it takes weeks to address HR complains. And if Todd is in a supervisory position over you it is even more difficult. Todd's opinion of you can influence whether or not you are retained or fired from the company. As an adult you really have to let your masculinity speak for itself.
Does this sort of workplace bullying actually happen? Seems more like something that would happen in a junior high locker room
Kundi--I relate to this--your comment. I converted from another point of view about the time I left navy. Took up Taiji, because it was a system that lent iself to a philosophy of both/and that suited my belief in self and family defense but not mayhem and ego. Yin married to Yang. Kind of dancing and negotiating a path to restore justice with peaceful intent. To this day I reflect on times when I played the violent game and am sorry for my part in it. But it is never to late to learn other ways and never to soon to use them.
Knowing how to fight is the core bedrock foundation of being a manly man. Even women need to try to learn to fight like a man. I teach all the women in my life how to fight, including my dog and my cats. The most important thing about fighting though is having situational awareness, and realizing that in 99% of situations your best bet is to run instead of fight, which is why you also need to be good at running. Another important aspect of fighting is knowing that you are never as good at fighting as you think you are, although I'm pretty confident I could beat up most posters here, namely the liberal ones.
I think keeping a cool head and defusing a potentially violent situation peacefully is almost always way more respectable than slugging it out
Because you may be in a confined space where running away is not an option or in some other scenario where you can't just leave. Prime example: A workplace bully. Sure, you can raise a complaint to HR when Todd accosts you in the bathroom and pushes you up against the wall but it takes weeks to address HR complains. And if Todd is in a supervisory position over you it is even more difficult. Todd's opinion of you can influence whether or not you are retained or fired from the company. As an adult you really have to let your masculinity speak for itself.
Does this sort of workplace bullying actually happen? Seems more like something that would happen in a junior high locker room
Yes but usually only to junior employees who are entry level and haven't gotten established. Say fresh college grads.
Knowing how to fight is the core bedrock foundation of being a manly man. Even women need to try to learn to fight like a man. I teach all the women in my life how to fight, including my dog and my cats. The most important thing about fighting though is having situational awareness, and realizing that in 99% of situations your best bet is to run instead of fight, which is why you also need to be good at running. Another important aspect of fighting is knowing that you are never as good at fighting as you think you are, although I'm pretty confident I could beat up most posters here, namely the liberal ones.
I think keeping a cool head and defusing a potentially violent situation peacefully is almost always way more respectable than slugging it out
Knowing how to fight is the core bedrock foundation of being a manly man. Even women need to try to learn to fight like a man. I teach all the women in my life how to fight, including my dog and my cats. The most important thing about fighting though is having situational awareness, and realizing that in 99% of situations your best bet is to run instead of fight, which is why you also need to be good at running. Another important aspect of fighting is knowing that you are never as good at fighting as you think you are, although I'm pretty confident I could beat up most posters here, namely the liberal ones.
Unfortunately a lot of young men raised today are not raised with the basic primal skills taught by an adult male in the family. I mean, being hard as a father these days would probably get you slapped with child abuse charges. Our parents grew up in an error where not only were their parents allowed to beat them if they got out of line, but so could the neighborhood. Discipline was enforced and it was harsh. Most men today are not used to getting their butt kicked which is what is a rite of passage in every man's journey. The butt kicking could come from your father, older brothers, or friends at school. But you're not going to learn how to fight until you've lost a fight.
Why would you need to fight if you are good at running?
So what would you do if you were at the bar and somebody slapped your GF on the ass?
Depends on what she is wearing? Is my girlfriend looking for that or is she being respectful? Did the guy see me or only her then slap?
If he didn’t see me I don’t really care just go away but if he saw me obviously I’m knocking him out. But I’m a sprinter, distance runners would probably just let the guy makeout with your girl in the dance floor while you watch
Because you may be in a confined space where running away is not an option or in some other scenario where you can't just leave. Prime example: A workplace bully. Sure, you can raise a complaint to HR when Todd accosts you in the bathroom and pushes you up against the wall but it takes weeks to address HR complains. And if Todd is in a supervisory position over you it is even more difficult. Todd's opinion of you can influence whether or not you are retained or fired from the company. As an adult you really have to let your masculinity speak for itself.
Does this sort of workplace bullying actually happen? Seems more like something that would happen in a junior high locker room
No, it doesn’t, but you also got to remember that folks here may not have matured beyond junior high.
Do you confront Brad like a man? All women who look reasonably attractive are in the heads of hundreds of guys on a daily basis.
It's a direct challenge to your manhood if a guy checks out your girl while you are looking. And a test of your manhood if you give the guy a stern firm eye contact glance or cower with your eyes averted from their eyes.
Andrew Tate, get out of this body!
You went off to hide in Mummy Trump's skirt since you are wanted for rape and human trafficking. Is this a manly behaviour?
That’s why you carry a knife and a blicky no amount of fighting prowess is beating a gun or a knife for that matter.Just use the knife to create distance then whip out the blicky and incapacitate or kill. Pretty foolproof if you ask me.
Because you may be in a confined space where running away is not an option or in some other scenario where you can't just leave. Prime example: A workplace bully. Sure, you can raise a complaint to HR when Todd accosts you in the bathroom and pushes you up against the wall but it the takes weeks to address HR complains. And if Todd is in a supervisory position over you it is even more difficult. Todd's opinion of you can influence whether or not you are retained or fired from the company. As an adult you really have to let your masculinity speak for itself.
Does this sort of workplace bullying actually happen? Seems more like something that would happen in a junior high locker room
lol, it seems Kellen confused the movie he watched last night and actual real life
Well as a feminist, I definitely wouldn’t presume to speak for she/her. After all what if she likes it? I would never want to come between my partner and her pursuit of self actualization. Plus, men fighting over women is a construct of the 1950s patriarchy, and womyn can fight for themselves, thank you very much. I feel my job as a man is to sit down while my partner stands up, and maybe gets slapped on the a$, if that is what she/her wants. But only if she gives complete and fulsome consent, preferably in writing.
Peach Pit, why you writing under a pseudonym?
Why are you perpetuating the 1950s patriarchy? Why do you look down on women? Who hurt you?
Well as a feminist, I definitely wouldn’t presume to speak for she/her. After all what if she likes it? I would never want to come between my partner and her pursuit of self actualization. Plus, men fighting over women is a construct of the 1950s patriarchy, and womyn can fight for themselves, thank you very much. I feel my job as a man is to sit down while my partner stands up, and maybe gets slapped on the a$, if that is what she/her wants. But only if she gives complete and fulsome consent, preferably in writing.
As a hotwife’ist, I concur.
Me too! As a feminist man, I feel with all my heart that women must be given space to respond to sexual overtures, wanted and unwanted. In the latter case, if there are four or five young men surrounding her, feeling her up, it’s incumbent on me as the man to remain silent. I might try to reason with them unless my partner would receive that as patronizing behavior indicative of toxic masculinity. What if it’s yum for her to be groped by 4-5 physically threatening men? Is it my place to object if they carry her off and stuff her in the back of a car? I found that my privilege entitles me to keep my mouth shut and let my partner lead.
