I painstakingly wrote out an answer to this post last night but my Internet went ZOOOIE!!! again and I lost it. Sometimes this whole living in the country like Green Acres thing can get to be a bit much. Okay so Boonie. This is what I would do. You're a big guy but I still think I could take you. In Taoist Tai Chi we teach that the best way to defeat your opponent is by absorbing their power and using it for your own. So let's say you move towards me with the intention of punching or kicking me. I would move up even closer into your space (right under your chin actually) and use the momentum of your thrust to pull you towards me and then offset your balance when you least expect it. By absorbing that momentum you increase your own power substantially. I was sparring with my Sensei the other day (I'm the only student in the class who has a background in Tai Chi) and made my move on him by inviting him into my space. I actually knocked him on the ground using his forward motion to do so. That's why I think I could knock you down. After disturbing your equilibrium I would be able to use my fists and feet to keep you down on the ground for a little longer. I probably wouldn't win a fight like this against someone that much bigger than me but I would have a pretty good showing at the beginning anyway
It's like asking would you rather eat filet mignon or bologna. There is only one James Bond and that is Connery.
Sometimes that option just isn't open to a woman. Besides I like the surprise factor when someone comes at me in attack (sparring) and I jump right up under their noses and BAM! I have them.
So what would you do if the guy didn't try to hit you but just toss you to the ground? With you only being 125 that would be pretty easy for a guy of my size. Then once you were locked up on the ground by someone almost three times your size there wouldn't be a whole lot you could do. Real life fights are much different that sparring. There are no rules in a real fight. Because of my bad lower half and wrestling and football background my best chance in a fight it to take the other person to the ground, get top position and pound away on their face. There is not a lot of people that can get out of the grasps of a 300 pound man with wrestling skills.
That strategy might work for the slower (even skilled fighters) .... but not the fast. You could find yourself in a real fight then.
How recently was that photo done? Funny thing. I was just talking to a friend about Connery and how we had not seen him in public for awhile and hoped he wasn't cooped up in his castle in Scotland with Alsheimers. As for your question, to me, 007 will always be Connery. Do you know that he represented Scotland in the Mr. Universe contest before he became an actor and one of his first jobs was building wooden caskets?
I would just say "wow", dust myself off, and ask you out on a date. I like a gal who can handle herself and me
You may be right and I sure am no martial arts guy but I believe that when you face someone who is huge, the best thing to do is stay away from their getting their hands on you and taking you down. Typically, bigger opponents tire themselves out easier than their lighter opponents. Your lack of height is also a disadvantage. It kind of goes back to the old boxer versus wrestler argument as to who would win. Typically a good boxer would carve up a wrestler but cuts and bruises do not win a fight and with some guys, only piss them off more. And also typically, if a good wrestler gets you down, especially if he is much heavier than you, you are pretty much at their mercy. The best thing to me, in my estimation is either make friends with the guy, run away to fight another day, or take him by surprise right between the eyes or crush his balls, take out his knee, mace the SOB, shoot him,or of course pluck out an eye(ala Uma in Kill Bill)
Well there's lots of different scenarios Boonie and for sure I wouldn't come out the winner in each one but ... If I had the advantage of anticipating your movement towards me I could still do it. One step towards me and I'd be right under your chin using the side of my hand to break your nose or my fingers to poke into your eyes and my other arm up to break your hold. Either one of those retaliatory actions would mean that your focus would be jarred and your balance would be off. If your balance is off I can pull you towards me and then using the momentum, curl myself around you to get on your back when you hit the ground. Meh, I've done this in practice lots of times and my Sensei always tells the male students in the class to watch out for me because Tai Chi, when performed as a martial art, is one of the MOST brutal of fighting disciplines. And I'm very very good at it. I've been teaching it for the past 6 years and there isn't a whole lot that can get past me. Mind you ... if someone just randomly throws a punch or kick I'd be out like a light. Half the time I injure myself far more than my opponent does because I get over-enthusiastic and I land wrong or something. So I'd say that you're probably pretty safe from me
LOL BWW ... Actually it does excite me. I love to win. I come from a very humble place though because I don't win consistently but I love to try. I was the smallest by far of 5 kids and my 2 brothers used to love using me as a punching bag ... so even though I have never really been in a fight I've been beaten up lots of times and that's made me want to be able to better defend myself. I think most women should learn some self defense. Rape statistics are through the roof and a lot of women would benefit from some form of self defense. Along with self defense women have to learn to think and react with confidence ... if it looks like a bad scene it probably is a bad scene. Most women second guess their instincts and they shouldn't. They should just go with their gut because it's usually right. I think that would make women safer.
You could be right ginny. I do think it depends more on the element of surprise than it does skill though. Anyone can be dropped like a bag of potatoes if they're not expecting a gouge to the eyes or a sudden nose break.
I believe it's a recent shot Al ... I saw it on FB this morning and I thought it was worth sharing. That's really interesting information about him being in the Mr. Universe Contest. His pictures are pretty cool too. And who's the beauty with him here?
I would be interested in what the outcome of a fight between some big guy and me would be. First possibility would be as you pointed out ... he'd kill me. Second possibility could be if I get the advantage of surprise AND if I move fast enough I could disable him by a quick jab to the nose or eyes ... and then run like the hounds of hell were after me. There is a 3rd possibility too ... IF I got him on the ground and IF I happened to be wearing my favourite heels and IF I got a good couple of solid kicks to his groin (my shoes are very very pointy and hot looking ... Italian leather you know? Sweetest and hottest heels in the world!!) then I think I'd probably have him. After the dust settles I would touch up my makeup ... adjust my stockings and garter, pull my skirt back down over my thighs, brace my shoulders back proudly, stick my nose up in the air like the snooty bitch I am and STRUT my stuff as far away from the dude as possible. Wait ... maybe a picture of me with my foot up on his chest and a fist pump for victory first? LOL
