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I have not had a fight for 10 years or so and do not want anouther one for at least 10 more, however I did have a " fight "
in a nightclub where I used my 1 years training in BJJ to stop myself getting badly hurt. I was at the bar chatting to a group of people, I did not know them, one of the guys, far bigger than my modest 180 pounds, was getting into that state of aggresion that no matter how you try to diffuse the situation it just seems to get worse. I moved away from them looking for my friend who was somewhere in the place. I went back to the bar to wait but again still away from this group. Sure enough this chap wandered over to me to continue his verbal intimidation. I was scared enough to appease his ranting and basicly said I was not interested in an altercation, he would win as he was far bigger than me and appologised for whatever it was about me that offended him ( a mistake to show weakness in retrospect ) etc at which point he tried to headbut me, I managed to pull my head back enough by instinct that it only just touched me in a glancing blow, he continued the attack in a flurry, picking me up, driving me forward, at which point I went with the flow wrapping my legs around him and falling into guard ( which ******* hurt ) I managed to wrap up his arms so that his efforts to continue punching resulted in ineffective rabbit punches to my head which I had turned to the side. I remember thinking to myself, what next? but the aggresion was so intense that it took all I had learnt just to keep him wrapped up. After what seemed ages, probrably only 40 seconds or so, a couple of bouncers pulled him off me and after a few more arrived, threw him and his two friends out. One of bouncers said he saw the whole thing ( thanks for watching for so long! ) and that it looked as if I was as calm as could be under his attack ( yeh right! ) Well, the upshot is without my training and natural fall into guard and an effective way of wrapping this gorilla up I would have been badly hurt. As it was I had a sore back for a week but no other injury at all. Thanks BJJ, you saved me an asskicking.
in a nightclub where I used my 1 years training in BJJ to stop myself getting badly hurt. I was at the bar chatting to a group of people, I did not know them, one of the guys, far bigger than my modest 180 pounds, was getting into that state of aggresion that no matter how you try to diffuse the situation it just seems to get worse. I moved away from them looking for my friend who was somewhere in the place. I went back to the bar to wait but again still away from this group. Sure enough this chap wandered over to me to continue his verbal intimidation. I was scared enough to appease his ranting and basicly said I was not interested in an altercation, he would win as he was far bigger than me and appologised for whatever it was about me that offended him ( a mistake to show weakness in retrospect ) etc at which point he tried to headbut me, I managed to pull my head back enough by instinct that it only just touched me in a glancing blow, he continued the attack in a flurry, picking me up, driving me forward, at which point I went with the flow wrapping my legs around him and falling into guard ( which ******* hurt ) I managed to wrap up his arms so that his efforts to continue punching resulted in ineffective rabbit punches to my head which I had turned to the side. I remember thinking to myself, what next? but the aggresion was so intense that it took all I had learnt just to keep him wrapped up. After what seemed ages, probrably only 40 seconds or so, a couple of bouncers pulled him off me and after a few more arrived, threw him and his two friends out. One of bouncers said he saw the whole thing ( thanks for watching for so long! ) and that it looked as if I was as calm as could be under his attack ( yeh right! ) Well, the upshot is without my training and natural fall into guard and an effective way of wrapping this gorilla up I would have been badly hurt. As it was I had a sore back for a week but no other injury at all. Thanks BJJ, you saved me an asskicking.
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