So how do you fight?
 

It seems a few of us around here have a couple of combat skills, mostly of the sporting sort, and I figured I'd enjoy seeing the sort of things we are bringing to the table when we finally descend into anarchy and start ripping each others throats out.

I myself am a grappler, I find interest in most other forms of fighting but I hadn't found the time to learn any others before now. It is one I enjoy immensely, the constant shifting of control between one person and another as you gauge balance, strength, and technique together was a rather fun thing. I loved the organized chaos of it all and really not being allowed to practice it now is just awkward since I know that my self maintained inactivity already made me rusty as hell and for some reason I had a recent resurgence in interest in choking people out once I got to where I am today.

So how do you whip ass?

I know Ju-Jitsu. So I pretty much wait for someone to attack, throw them to the ground, break whatever part of their body is readily available at the time and leave them unconscious with a punch to the head.

Quick, simply, and effective. Never had to actually use it in a real fight yet though.

Shurikendo- the art of using everything available as a weapon with whatever style works best for the situation.

I know spots (no more then 6 months) of Judo, Karate and Kendo- couldn't really focus on any of it.

Spent a lot of time cloak-dueling and that's fun- I've shown I'm able to disarm someone with my trenchcoat, so I'll put that on the list?

And I have some Saber Fencing under my belt, but I'm literally so horrible at it I shouldn't mention it at all.


Really my fighting style consists of "Talking big and taking a cheapshot at your face with a brick". It's followed promptly by my most powerful combat technique, "Run like a fucking coward."

I prefer to walk - or run - away.
Being a bit of a pacifist (but not too much), I generally get kicked around 'till the point I rage so hard I'm literally willing and able to rip somebody's oesophagus out during a grapple.

I understand that guy still has the scars of my nails embedded on his throat.
He threatened to report me to the police, at which point I threatened to show the police the bruises on my ribs, next to some classmates backing me up. Good times (but not really).

I use the mythical Althusser Death Stare. Works every time.

I always have myself at odds with the boys in Ju-jitsu since I'm a wrestler. Wrestlers understand that aside from most of the submissions we share many moves with those fellows and just have different concentrations when it comes to our grappling outcome. Ju-jitsu kids are so filled with pride in their particular martial art though that they always seem to talk down to us. Course I'm usually very calm about it as I try to reason with them, my brother usually challenges them and wins more often than he loses.

It is a vicious cycle.

But yeah I figure most of us are cowards or at least diplomatic in our approaches to conflict, but hey when it comes down to it I plan to do a nice high elevation throw and send you sprawling to the pavement if you happen to test me properly. I figure if I could do it to someone twice my weight before(as a note my spine hurt a bit afterward so I think I did it wrong) most people don't stand much of a chance.

You're such a charmer. Make love to me now, you silver-tongued devil, you.
Reluctance to fight does NOT make one a coward.

Well I am taking this as a view of someone's form of conflict resolution, I am diplomatic I try to talk my way out. Smarty apparently has a magical stare of unending intimidation which is also a bit diplomatic if from the other side of the force. You can fight, which works from time to time if that is the conflict you are facing. You can also run, which is cowardly but not really a bad choice if all else fails. You chose to be called a coward. I didn't point that at anyone except everyone, and also included diplomatic approaches which you could have just as easily taken up in your reluctance to fight.

The only way for you two to settle this argument is an out and out street brawl backed by an 80s hair metal soundtrack.

I let my opponents' imagination run wild. Sometimes they are crippled by fear, sometimes they completely underestimate me and most of the time they make wrong assumptions. The trick is of course to never give away your intentions.