When Was Your Last Fight?
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actual last fight (as opposed to near misses cos I can't keep my mouth shut!) was Christmas Eve 2001. WEnt to 'The Mead Hall' near Farnborough with big group of school mates...left at closing time to find random fight between two pissed people going on outside. We (whole group) were hanging around to get picked up by taxis/friends parents etc... when group of previously fighting wazzocks decided we also 'wanted a fight' (despite lengthy, pointless attempts by all of us to diffuse situation). cue car park mayhem for about 20 minutes (there were a lot of people). fair to say that they (very drunk and 17 year old 'lads') lost quite badly (similar number of mid twenties less drunk lads) They carried some of their friensd away!
had a crowbar swung very hard at my head at the services on the M4 for daring to suggest to a large skinhead Bristolian that he should probably get the f**k off the throat of the woman he was holding. that was quite scary....
other than that, all fights at school/Uni!
Roadsweeper....whereabouts you train? Used to compete a fair bit in the UK, learnt down at Stockport with Master Sken et al....
had a crowbar swung very hard at my head at the services on the M4 for daring to suggest to a large skinhead Bristolian that he should probably get the f**k off the throat of the woman he was holding. that was quite scary....
other than that, all fights at school/Uni!
Roadsweeper....whereabouts you train? Used to compete a fair bit in the UK, learnt down at Stockport with Master Sken et al....
Not really. Had a couple of punches thrown at me in my school days and never bothered to retaliate.
Tried to stop a few fights too and ended up being hit a couple of times.
Personally I don't see the point. It takes a bigger and more confident man to walk away from a fight than start one...
That said I can handle myself in that I don't get started on much and I can generally talk myself and others out of a fight.
Its just childish egos at the end of the day. Even if you CAN beat someone up, what does it prove???
That's my 2p's worth anyway.
(slight caveat, I would obviously wade in if my g/f mum dad brother was in danger though, as that is instinctive
)
Tried to stop a few fights too and ended up being hit a couple of times.
Personally I don't see the point. It takes a bigger and more confident man to walk away from a fight than start one...
That said I can handle myself in that I don't get started on much and I can generally talk myself and others out of a fight.
Its just childish egos at the end of the day. Even if you CAN beat someone up, what does it prove???
That's my 2p's worth anyway.
(slight caveat, I would obviously wade in if my g/f mum dad brother was in danger though, as that is instinctive
)
nightmare said:
Roadsweeper....whereabouts you train? Used to compete a fair bit in the UK, learnt down at Stockport with Master Sken et al....
Ah, very interesting. I trained with Master Bill Judd at Bethnal Green. My mate Sak Nayagam is fighting for the Welterweight WMTO World Title against Aussie No. 1 Ben 'Pixie' Burton at Leicester Square next Sunday. (Unfortunately I can't be there). Do you know him?
Edited to add: I'm based near Stockport in a couple of weeks and have heard Master Sken is excellent so might be going down to take a look.
>> Edited by roadsweeper on Thursday 25th November 16:39
roadsweeper said:
And Why Did It Happen?
My last fight (excluding Thai Boxing!) was when I was 18 (9 years ago). It was (kind of) over a girl and was all over in a few minutes. Pretty much a draw - he caught me by surprise with a full-on punch in the face, then when I didn't go down it turned into a wrestling macth and kind of petered out. Pretty pathetic really.
So, come on, I'm sure some of you have some very interesting stories.....
Where do you train? I do thai boxing with Neil Auwkit in Cov, before that I was with Sandy Holt in Bolton. I'll never be much of a fighter I don't think but I enjoy it.
Fat Audi 80 said:
Personally I don't see the point. It takes a bigger and more confident man to walk away from a fight than start one...
...
Its just childish egos at the end of the day. Even if you CAN beat someone up, what does it prove???
That's my 2p's worth anyway.
I agree. I've walked away from, or talked my way out of, many potential fights, but sometimes you have no choice.
Regardless, discussing the morality of fighting is not what this thread is about - I want to hear some stories!
18 months ago, at our annual bike rally.
An idiot out of his brains on cocaine and whiskey who'd just arrived, started threatening a guy with the empty whiskey bottle. I waded in to help, and in the fracas, he manged to smack me in the face with the bottle. I lost two teeth and had two more badly damaged.
When he got to the gate to try and get away, he found we'd blocked it with transit van, so he pulled out a tomahawk and tried to split a skull or two.
We got him on the ground, and while we were waiting for the cops to show up, he's telling us how he's going to get his gun and shoot a few of us.
The cops searched his static caravan that night, and found a loaded shotgun under his bed, and a rifle with telescopic sight and 217 rounds of ammo.
He's currently doing 3 years.
That was the first serious trouble we've had in 8 years of running our rally. A pretty good record compared to most town centre night clubs I suppose.
An idiot out of his brains on cocaine and whiskey who'd just arrived, started threatening a guy with the empty whiskey bottle. I waded in to help, and in the fracas, he manged to smack me in the face with the bottle. I lost two teeth and had two more badly damaged.
When he got to the gate to try and get away, he found we'd blocked it with transit van, so he pulled out a tomahawk and tried to split a skull or two.
We got him on the ground, and while we were waiting for the cops to show up, he's telling us how he's going to get his gun and shoot a few of us.
The cops searched his static caravan that night, and found a loaded shotgun under his bed, and a rifle with telescopic sight and 217 rounds of ammo.
He's currently doing 3 years.
That was the first serious trouble we've had in 8 years of running our rally. A pretty good record compared to most town centre night clubs I suppose.
jaker said:
mate of mine had a brilliant fight with a p155ed up old git once.
my mate (sober-ish and completely innocent) got started on for no reason at all.
drunk bloke throws punch (slowly) my mate slowly sidesteps punch.
drunk bloke falls flat on face, cuts face on pavement. ouch.
as for me, never had one...
Me and my mates have had a few similar occasions to this one - but usually with young chavs.
One lad came running accross the road to throw a punch at my mates head but missed totally and hit a lamp post.
Another time outside a club a lad with arms bigger than my head was hassling my mates girlfriend. So they square up and I'm watching his back. It all calms down and we walk away only for big arms to say to me 'What you effin' looking at?' and then punch me in the face.
I replied by throwing one back at him as hard as I could, caught him square in the mush and KO'd him.
I actually got a few cheers from the bouncers and other people mingling about but didn't want to hang around for him to come round.
The last fight I was involved in was Xmas Eve 2 years ago when some bloke wouldn't let a mate passed to go to the Gents! My mate came and sat back down again, left it 5 minutes and tried again but he still couldn't get passed so came back and told us we were rumbling.
I've never started a fight but do tend to think that sometimes these sort of people deserve a good pummelling just in case on another night they try to bully someone else who can't defend themselves so well.
>> Edited by cliffe_mafia on Thursday 25th November 16:49
yeah, lol.
I've met Bill Judd, very nice chap, I met him when I went with the KO people to Thailand in 2003.
Never trained at Master Sken's so can't say much about that, but Dave Jackson in Warrington is another chap who I've heard a lot of good stuff about, he's one of the old guard like Sandy.
I don't know if you've seen it, but axkickboxing.com is a great website, people will give you lots of tips on good gyms there.
I've met Bill Judd, very nice chap, I met him when I went with the KO people to Thailand in 2003.
Never trained at Master Sken's so can't say much about that, but Dave Jackson in Warrington is another chap who I've heard a lot of good stuff about, he's one of the old guard like Sandy.
I don't know if you've seen it, but axkickboxing.com is a great website, people will give you lots of tips on good gyms there.
@ tallblokeI don't do fights - it shows you've got no reasoning skills.
If you really have to, I take my own advice - there are some things in life you can win or lose. Fights aren't one of them. You've got to fight? Give yourself the advantage and take a
-off huge knife. Usually seems to simultaneously win the argument and avoid the fight.
I never have ended up in a fight, I've just perfected a 'look' over the years which says 'If you even try, I WILL kill you. Horribly.'
If you really have to, I take my own advice - there are some things in life you can win or lose. Fights aren't one of them. You've got to fight? Give yourself the advantage and take a
-off huge knife. Usually seems to simultaneously win the argument and avoid the fight. I never have ended up in a fight, I've just perfected a 'look' over the years which says 'If you even try, I WILL kill you. Horribly.'
v8thunder said:
I don't do fights - it shows you've got no reasoning skills.
I'm afraid this is a generalisation and as such can be considered utter bollocks! Try telling that to my pacifist friend who was put in a coma over nothing. Yes, some people resort to violence as a way of life, others find themselves in unavoidable situations where it's fight or be a punchbag and possibly a corpse. I truly hope you never find yourself in such a situation, but if you do, you'll retract that statement very quickly I assure you.
Peace!
My last fight was at a Motor Club Christmas party about 8 years ago at the Three Kings in Baron's Court, London. It's a big pub just off the Great West Road (A4) that sells Newquay Steam on tap and we'd had a good experience there a few years before when the staff had given us extra brussel sprouts to throw in the food fight. I understand that it was allegedly also the major Cannabis distribution point for the Hammersmith and Earls Court region.
But anyway, we booked the meal, went to it, had the usual Turkey, stuffing etc, then the food fight started early. Now, I thought I was prepared, because I was wearing an old Barbour to protect my decent clothing, but I was wrong. Food was flying everywhere, the sight of mashed potatoes and gravy on a friend's orange suit jacket was something to be seen, and most people had half a plate of food on them. All good fun. What we didn't bank on was some locals taking offence as the fall out from the fight landed on them, it turned into a massive punch up, fists and chairs everywhere, bottles and glasses, the place was a mess.
We managed to make a break for it and went to finish off the night's drinking back at a friend's flat, and I had to make a trip to Casualty the following day to get a very swollen hand checked out because I thought I might have broken a bone. Fortunately, no damage done, and a very memorable evening.
But anyway, we booked the meal, went to it, had the usual Turkey, stuffing etc, then the food fight started early. Now, I thought I was prepared, because I was wearing an old Barbour to protect my decent clothing, but I was wrong. Food was flying everywhere, the sight of mashed potatoes and gravy on a friend's orange suit jacket was something to be seen, and most people had half a plate of food on them. All good fun. What we didn't bank on was some locals taking offence as the fall out from the fight landed on them, it turned into a massive punch up, fists and chairs everywhere, bottles and glasses, the place was a mess.
We managed to make a break for it and went to finish off the night's drinking back at a friend's flat, and I had to make a trip to Casualty the following day to get a very swollen hand checked out because I thought I might have broken a bone. Fortunately, no damage done, and a very memorable evening.
About 18 years ago, Mrs K and I started our married life in a London basement flat with steps outside leading up from an area at the front to street level. Problem was that w@nkers kept coming down in to this area to pee on their way home. I confronted one such w@nker, told him that he as a pig and to ferk off. Got a headbutt and a black eye for my troubles!
After a mate had a bottle broken over his head last year, and I saw a couple of fights kick off for no good reason, I figured that the nutter quotient was getting too high, so I did six months training in Krav Maga, and then swapped to kickboxing which I am still doing.
I am not going to go looking for trouble, but if it finds me, then I feel rather more confident about being able to deal with it.
After a mate had a bottle broken over his head last year, and I saw a couple of fights kick off for no good reason, I figured that the nutter quotient was getting too high, so I did six months training in Krav Maga, and then swapped to kickboxing which I am still doing.
I am not going to go looking for trouble, but if it finds me, then I feel rather more confident about being able to deal with it.
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