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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Simeon_Strangelight" data-source="post: 634856" data-attributes="member: 6783">That reminds me of a little story in my life - I have a remote cousin who grew up in a very tough neighborhood being dirt-poor. He is very athletic 6'3 and started doing street fights around the age of 12. He even joined Neonazis (left them soon afterwards since he is actually a kind guy) and a Soccer hooligan club to get into more fights. Back when I met him the first time he was 16 and he told me that he had been in roughly 500 fights already (!). He even showed me proudly some magazine shots taken by a journalist who photographed him while he was beating up someone with a belt during a major hooligan street fight. He told me that they were occasionally meeting other groups to do some serious combat just for kicks. Back then I exercised a bit Karate and Boxing, but when we sparred a bit he saw every one of my moves as if in slow-mo or as if he knew 5 seconds in advance what I would do. A few years later he hit someone too hard in a street fight and the guy split his skull on the sidewalk after which he got to prison. Glad to say that my cousin turned his life around and now became some kind of born-again Christian and works in construction. But it really strikes me how effective real-life experiences are versus simple training exercises. Of course no sane person would go out and engage in hundreds of potentially dangerous street fights to get that kind of experience, but ultimately this is the kind of stuff that makes such a guy a force to be reckoned with on par with the best martial artists in the country - plus he was 6'3 and did enough lifting to be roughly 200-210 pounds in ripped muscle. And you cannot really train what he went through because it's fucking dangerous - it also got him in prison for manslaughter and almost fucked up his life.</blockquote>

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