Afraid to fight... what to do?

ArdAtak · 2018-12-14T00:17:27+00:00

DGAF and pissing people off to the point of getting in fights are 2 totally different things. You DGAF if you strike out or if she loses interest. But your standards for how a decent human being and a calm confident alpha behave are what will keep you from getting in fights. DGAF does not mean being an asshole, offending people, and instigating fights. You have to actually go out of your way to make those things happen which means you're trying too hard.

dirty_ja_galis · 2018-12-14T00:31:53+00:00

I don't know what it is but TKD doesn't seem to be an effective street fighting art. I've know a few TKD dudes that got beat by smaller untrained dudes in a street fight. They felt like punks afterwards.

If shit were to hit the fan in 1 on 1 street fight I'd rather knew wrestling, BJJ, or Muay Thai.

GayLubeOil · 2018-12-14T08:28:29+00:00

Taekwondo is olimpic homosexuality. Enroll in a Mexican boxing gym. Anglo gyms have been pussified

masterpiece00 · 2018-12-14T02:23:08+00:00

Fighting is for absolute fools, walk or run away from all fights.

imtheoneimmortal · 2018-12-14T08:06:37+00:00

your hamster wheel is going 300km/h
if you go idgaf you shouldn't think omg what happens if start fight
if it start just fight even you win or lose, maybe you're afraid of losing instead of fighting

Bedtimeshine · 2018-12-14T11:18:12+00:00

Organized martial arts don’t mean shit in a street fight unless you are elite and have experience applying it in real life situations. Bruce lee would get his ass kicked in a Detroit bar. With that said, the first time you get hit and realize you aren’t made of glass is pretty liberating.

FiveStarTendieDinner · 2018-12-14T03:31:29+00:00

Get a gun. Any competent firearm operator can kill a street fighter with ease.

Herdsengineers · 2018-12-14T02:46:49+00:00

TKD is a sport, not a martial combat art. You try those kicks against someone moving, ducking, bob'ing, and weaving, you're chances of landing a solid hit with anything but a simple front kick are very low. Never kick above the knee in a street fight.

Learn some grappling. Per FBI studies, 90% of street fights end up on the ground. Grappling and ground fighting are king on the street. Learn boxing and/or juijutsu for standing fighting. And I mean a true "Koryu" juijutsu form. Koryu means it's an art that survived the samurai purge after the Meiji restoration. You don't see it in martial arts movies, it's a rare thing to find a dojo teaching one of those forms, but they are bad ass fighting systems if you can find one and learn it. Expect to hurt, be bruised A LOT, and bleed regularly if you get into a Koryu system dojo. An expect to train vs. multiple attackers, learn melee weapons, etc. It will also teach grappling and ground fighting. You can tell a Koryu dojo simply by asking if them if they are a Koryu system. If they are, they'll know what it is. If they aren't, they likely won't know what you are talking about at all. And they won't have any form of tournament stuff, trophies, etc. displayed, they don't do that stuff.

For me personally, though, DGAF doesn't equate to saying/doing whatever I want to the point that it would provoke someone else to attack me. There's a social calibration that you need to focus on more in this regard than fighting skills. I calibrate myself and don't provoke - if someone wants to get violent with me, I'll do everything I can to avoid it, and then if they insist their gonna find themselves staring down a barrel with 17 9x19 bullets behind it.

Title	Afraid to fight... what to do?
Author	Aiselem
Upvotes	18
Comments	23
Date	December 14, 2018 12:09 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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