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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kieran" data-source="post: 634894" data-attributes="member: 4725">The time investment to become actually proficient enough to handle yourself against large, somewhat athletic, bar brawlers isn't really worth it for the amount of times the average person will be in situations where violence is actually unavoidable. I box for the love of the sport, rather than to be able to handle myself. I personally believe that good social skills and knowing how to diffuse confrontations is a far more valuable thing to know, and is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. On two different occasions where I thought violence was imminent, I've seen two of my friends diffuse things so well that the instigators ended up acting like long lost friends. Definitely a skill I need to work on, as looking back, a lot of fights I've been in could almost certainly have been avoided, and without losing face.</blockquote>