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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 381876" data-attributes="member: 5171">Re: Cool Thread.Sure.  I was one of the ones above who had a story about NOT fighting someone who was being stupid.  I don't advocate starting fights.  For better or for worse, I've always been pretty empathic, and I have a pretty good idea of when someone is gonna actually escalate and throw a punch versus when they're gonna just cuss a lot and then walk away.I've avoided most situations where someone was genuinely looking for trouble.  My "the fight has already started" mentality was for when I knew it was going to be physical no matter what I did.  And when that's the case -- and when you KNOW that's the case -- then I firmly advise looking like a sissy, stuttering, ducking your head, taking out your wallet and telling them you don't want any trouble in a little quavering voice, holding it up in your left hand for all of them to see, and then sucker-punching the biggest one right in the throat.No, not when it's one of your friends and he's drunk.  Not when it's a guy who you dislike and he wants to push you around.  In a situation where you've got multiple people surrounding you and your significant other and you feel your life is in jeopardy.  Et cetera.That's excellent advice.  I've gotten out of a lot of fights by not looking like a victim.Ah, but what you're describing is distance, too.  I didn't just mean distance in the sense of being far away from someone.  Standing on the edge of their threat range is one of my favorite tactics, but I am a big fan of stuffing them up, too -- mostly because I know what to do in those situations and most of my opponents don't -- at least, the ones I use it against.  I'm not gonna try and get in close with a jujitsu expert, but that TKD guy is gonna find me right there in his personal space.In general, you can win any fight by making it your kind of fight.  If I get into a wrestling match with a grappler, I'm outta luck.  I might last a little while, 'cause I've cross-trained, but they're the expert.  So most of my training is in how to get OUT of a grappling situation and into a punching-each-other situation, which is what I'm good at.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Distance is one part of making it your fight.-TackyPS: Am I just, as they say, on crack?  At work, my text box is nice and wide, but at home it's only 20 characters.  Is it because I'm stuck with Netscape at home?</blockquote>

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