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wbw
climber
'cross the great divide
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Jul 18, 2011 - 11:16am PT
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Just once, in 7th grade. My buddy puts an egg in my plastic sled that I didnīt see, and all the other kids are laughing at the yolk running down my coat. I had to punch him, and of course he had to punch me back after that. Now, living in Boulder, much easier and better to be a lover than a fighter.
However, I get my ass kicked every two years when I come down here to Peru to climb big peaks. Know what Cheyne-Stokes breathing is??
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LithiumMetalman
Trad climber
cesspool central
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Jul 18, 2011 - 03:55pm PT
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Elementary school
-got picked on, didn't defend myself...cried alot.
Middle school
-Rough, wasn't afraid to defend myself in a fight, most of the time people backed off from the forthwright aggression. (Got tired of being picked on, snapped)
High School
-Royally got my ass handed to me by 5 guys, bike stolen, broken rib, black eye. This was in Oakland.
-Knife fight, I was unarmed, very lucky that the man was drunk...was able to block attack, throw him off center and run like hell. This was also in Oakland.
College
-By this time I wanted nothing to do with violence, and ran away or avoid any possibility of physical conflict, just not worth it.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Jul 18, 2011 - 05:18pm PT
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Fattrad has it down - attack fast, furious and without forgiveness - think jacked up full tilt crazy doberman guard dog and you are there.
I was taught by my insane old man how to street fight after getting my butt handed to me in front of 50 kids in the 7th grade.
His mantra - "Sticks and stones will break their bones...so pick one up and hit em with it!".
I may be old - but I can be nasty if need be. Thank goodness that need hasn't been in 30 years. Definitely do not miss that era of stupidity! :)
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jul 18, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
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F*#k yes I've had my ass kicked. Kicked a lot of ass too. I use to fight all the time as a youth. Eventually you come up on someone better...or luckier:-) I loved to fight and did frequently. However, what I LEARNED IS NEVER DRINK AND FIGHT. I use to be a self righteous son of a bitch. Now I'm much mellower and am an only an opinionated son of a bitch. Older and smarter too. Haven't been in a fight for over 30 years or so.
My worst one was waking up in a hospital with amnesia, my head looks like a large round watermelon with 2 large tomato halves stuck on the side for lips (lips had 8 stitches). I literally had had the ability to speak and think knocked out of me, and didn't know what happened but felt fearful -feeling something must be terribly wrong. Finally by about day 3 or 4 when I was starting to be able to understand english again and could remember my name, it came out that I'd got in a fight with multiple guys, 6 or 7, all bigger than me ( I always loved to fight big dudes), as I was losing, and drunk, I did something I'd never done before: pulled a knife and stabbed one near the heart: multiple times, and he and one more dude (before the knife came out) were in critical care and I was looking at 30 to life depending on the outcome. Right after that I'd taken a beer bottle to the head, which didn't take me out, but it slowed me down enough to be plummeted by all the other dudes. Once on the ground, it was reminiscent of soccer practice but with no goals scored as the ball was connected to my neck. My full memory never came back. English language came back and was most of the way back in 6-7 months, but structurally things were processed different mentally for ever.
I vowed then not to fight again. So stupid.
2 years later I surprised and rush attacked 6 skinhead-guys beating up a black guy on the street in London. They surprised all of us when I screamed like a crazy banshee running right at them hard and when coming close they crapped their pants and ran. For a city block they ran in fear. When they got back a bit and realized the odds they came back to be nasty and to rock and roll. One tried to take a shot from the side, I saw it coming as soon as he positioned himself, deflected and slipped the punch and bouncing lightly on the balls of my feet ready to play laughed at the guys off-balance surprised look....the rest spat out nasty invectives but wanted no part of a non-sneak attack and left. I hugged the black guy, who was shaking and unresponsive, wanted to find out the reason for the attack, dude couldn't reply....I could relate from my last fight. I was a full block away when I initiated my run at these cowardly pricks, I had time to reflect and thought I was going to get it worse then before....was pleasantly surprised that I walked away at all. Later I wondered if I had the skill to have put them away, but I suppose that it only takes a single knife from the side or the back....
...wish we'd played it out then. I'd been working out and full contact sparing with Tae-Kwan-do black belts twice a week for over a year solid, I've always wondered.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jul 18, 2011 - 10:38pm PT
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Pretty funny Bill! You rowdy guy!
Almost had my ass kicked a few times, but somehow fended off the blows. I guess thats what comes from growing up with 2 younger brothers, both of whom were bigger then me and into the martial arts.
Heck a good brawl is kind of fun unless someone has to get dental work.
One time got surrounded by 4 dudes, one with a 4 foot steel pipe who would have killed me. I backed into a business alcove, showed them my knife, let them know I was going to use it, and they suddenly decided there was easier prey. They might have got me if they all came at me at once, but I was determined to take a few of them down with me, and I think they might have figured that out.
Then there was the time 2 cowboys jumped me and my 2 buddies hitch hiking at night. They just pulled over in their truck and started kicking our ass, as my buddies had black leather jackets and mullets like punk rockers, back in the early 80's. I thought for sure no problem, until I realized that I was fighting 2 dudes by myself, and my 2 buddies had dove over the fence and taken off across a field. Sh#t, I bailed quickly over the fence and ran like a chicken till I found them. We could have taken those guys if they had just stayed and taken care of business. Always feel embarrassed to this day when I think about it, so if you count that I guess I had my ass kicked since I ran like a girl.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jul 18, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
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LOL, he who runs away, lives to run another day! Woot! That's my motto these days Steve !! Wish I'd had the brains to jump over a fence and run! I'm a non-combatant!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2011 - 11:11pm PT
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Just rode by the scene of the crime.
My balls(plural!) hurt just thinking about it, even 28 years later.
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jul 22, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
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Yeah from the time I was in 1st grade until 8th grade. I was told not to fight at home and was never taught. By the time I was in 8th grade I was pretty pissed off. This 9th grader started punching on me in gym class. I went ballistic and pulled him off the bench he was sitting on and started roundhouse punching him as fast as I could. While I was doing this it occurred to me that I had better not stop. Then I realized that the gym teachers circled us and let me wail on him for a while. The class watched in amazement. After school we finished it. I never got messed with again.
I haven't had a real fight since. But I was willing to take out this trucker that cut in line while I was paying for gas the other day. I called him a turd and he asked me not to call him that. I thought that is mild compared to what I wanted to say. Then the next checker said I will take you over here sir. It was more like pleading.
That was the closest I have been to a fight since that day in 8th grade.
Now that they put you in jail for fighting and charge you for assult. It just ain't worth it.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jul 22, 2011 - 11:59pm PT
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Daily during the school year by 72 (+ or -) 6th graders.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Jul 23, 2011 - 02:46am PT
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I was going to tell an ass-kicking story but now I'm feeling self-conscious.
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Jul 23, 2011 - 03:49am PT
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I got sucker punched by some 19 year old bitch at The Buffet....
Thread drift (sorry)-Hey Leggs, the whole story at the Buffet... just a place I haven't thought of in a while- I used to LOVE the buffet in my early twenties (never got in any fights there, so luckily I'm not person in your story), but that just brought back some memories... wonder if I was ever there when you were... Ever see someone get served a "Buffalo Sweat"? Those results=not good, maybe equatable to ass kicking.
Anyway, 100+ posts for this thread, just doin' my part, hell yeah!!!!
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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Pate, I wish your legal woes didn't prohibit you from talking about that big fight in Colorado. Bummer.
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Tobia
Social climber
GA
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Jul 23, 2011 - 02:19pm PT
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Charles:
For some the saying "Get a life" needs to be changed to "Get life?" because they just don't.
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Jul 23, 2011 - 03:02pm PT
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Yeah, old guys are the best teachers for that. Took fencing lessons from an eighty-year old veteran of both world wars when I was a kid. Three hours of traditional foil, sabre, and epee twice a week, and then he'd rub his hands together and say "that was fencing, now let's fight" Learned every which way to incapacitate an adversary as quickly as possible. Never had to use it, got taken down by a beer bottle to the forehead as I was leaving a party once, though. Some dumbass thought I was somebody else he had a problem with.
"I mean, they're not gonna kill ya, so if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock, they won't do it again. Dig it? I mean he get off lightly, 'cause I would've given him a thrashing - I only hit him once! It was only a difference of opinion, but really...I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?"
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Tyler Durden
Trad climber
Yosemite Sam, CA
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Jul 23, 2011 - 03:14pm PT
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If anyone deserved to get their ass kicked, it's Skip.
Join my fight club and you can get yer ass kicked all the time.
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Anastasia
climber
hanging from an ice pick and missing my mama.
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Jul 23, 2011 - 03:15pm PT
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I've had my ass kicked by the school bully more than once. The day I stood up to him and won, that was mind blowing... Too bad he got me back with all his buddies afterwards but... Hey, he needed five guys to make his point. I take pride in that. Especially since at the time I was less than a 100 pounds soaking wet.
Goes to show how weak and pathetic they all are.
AFS
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