Question To Highly Experienced Members

To: Highly Experienced Street Fighters
Most of the fights that I've ever been in are BRAWLS and GROUP FIGHTS. I'm fairly new to this site and have a question:

If you are forced to fight in a brawl because your mates are in trouble, what are some important things to know to avoid serious injury from things such as weapons and more than one person ganging up on you?

Thanks

holidaestylez wrote:

To: Highly Experienced Street Fighters
Most of the fights that I've ever been in are BRAWLS and GROUP FIGHTS. I'm fairly new to this site and have a question:

If you are forced to fight in a brawl because your mates are in trouble, what are some important things to know to avoid serious injury from things such as weapons and more than one person ganging up on you?

Thanks

1. Find new mates
2. Stay away from trouble areas.

VictorS said it all.

Street fighting has nothing to do with MA or self defense

You don't need to learn how to street fight. You need to learn how to not get into fights. I'm 57yrs old and the last real fight I had was probably when I was 25. I grew up is all I can say.

Another thing, if my friend is acting stupid and he gets into a fight, he may be my friend but I'm not stupid, it's his fight.

if you fight in a group brawl you are always open to getting judased with a weapon inthe back or peopl gangin up on you, just stay on your toes, keep near to your mates and watch ur back

kasumi wrote

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You don't need to learn how to street fight. You need to learn how to not get into fights. I'm 57yrs old and the last real fight I had was probably when I was 25. I grew up is all I can say.

So true and words to live by!
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cool responses.
i've had those kind of mates, and i bailed out (like everyone is advising) just prior to a stretch in prison for the main one i was hanging with. my wake up came when he was making adjustments (from his main focus of agression) away from other thugs and towards ordinary people--he was leaning toward gay bashing. it was only a matter of time. i stopped him from being knifed, then let him on his own after that. even had my boss tell him i was busy/not-there/etc... because i was a door security guy and he'd come looking for me for some shit he had started or gotten himself into.

humbly, i say jump ship now because you can't dodge bullets forever--metaphorically speaking this time. let trouble come to you. don't go out of your way to find it.

as an aside: it's not an easy thing to do(break away). one of my friends actually bailed me out once. i did return the favor on another occasion but noticed he was looking for fights alot. i left when he had organized the equavalent of a squad mission with a small group to go into a neighborhood for some retaliatory old style revenge. that's where most of this stuff leads...everything builds on previous stuff until it can get really out of control.

...however,
if you do all that good sense stuff first, and find yourself there anyway... i would have said pick your shots, don't end up on the ground and keep moving--i saw the clip below which also added not to go into grappling stuff as it leaves you a slow target (to paraphrase):

sensable take on your question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuZWDZOaT9M

IF you ever end up in that situation, be ruthless, be aggressive, relentless and use every weapon to hand. Bite, tear, hit, smash, destroy.

try to form a circle with your friends, if you are with 3 turn the backs to eachother, and eyes everywhere, fight, and come back in position. if you are surrounded.
try to move to a public place. where many camaras and witnesses are.. if you are in trouble.

I've not actually fought with friends against another group before, although have come close quite a few times. The same thing happens every time though, me and my mates will be minding our own business, when another group will approach us. usualy there are just as many, if not more of us than them. Anyway so everytime this has happened, I've been reassured by my mates that we will all stick together if shit starts, then I'll turn around and all my mates will be fucking off in the other direction leaving me to deal with 10+ people on my own.

I say deal with them, but there is only one of me against many, so if I can I will run like fuck in the opposite direction.

My advice is unless you can completely trust your mates to stick with you and back you up, just get away any way you can, as quickly and as early as you can.