Kicks, Drunks & Fight Injuries

[brianlkennedy]

This was an interesting little news item about a study of booze driven fights and kicking. It should be grand news for the Northern Shaolin and Tae Kwon Do folks. Kicks do work in fights—you (and your opponent) just have to be drunk enough. (I think that is the scientific conclusion of the study??)

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6175633.stm

Brian Superfoot Wallace

[TainanCowboy]

from the article

“Usually in fights people are kicked when they fall over and one of the ways to reduce kicking is to reduce severe intoxication because fewer people would fall over”…Professor Jonathan Shepherd

and:

[quote]"Mr Martin Shalley, consultant in A&E at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and president of the British Association of Emergency Medicine said the study reflected his own experience.
“Once you are on the floor, you’re at great risk.”[/quote]

Academia chimes in with the obvious.

[fenlander]

This refers to getting stompped and kicked on the head by groups of people when you are on the ground. Rule one don’t fall on the ground in a pub fight. Quite obvious. Hardly need to practice martial arts to know that.

These are not tai kwon do kicks and flashy nothern style martial arts kicks, they are football head kicks and stomps when someone is on the ground. Not by someone hopping around as a praying mantis and high kicking another “martial artist” in the head during competition. So you would be better off learning and playing soccer than giving your money away to imitate an insect fighting.

[Mother_Theresa]

@fenlander

This refers to getting stompped and kicked on the head by groups of people when you are on the ground. Rule one don’t fall on the ground in a pub fight. Quite obvious. Hardly need to practice martial arts to know that.

I witnessed such kicks in San Diego, once, on the Mission Beach boardwalk, which is popular with babes in bikinis, surfer-type dudes, rollerbladers, tourists and also low-life, drunken, druggie, biker-type dudes. The incident I saw involved the latter. A few big, sleazy looking dudes were standing around while one big, fat guy was using his heavy boots to repeatedly kick in the head a guy who was lying defenseless on the ground. It was a sickening sight and easily may have led to permanent brain damage or death. Hardly a martial art form. Just a brutal criminal act.

[taiwanmd]

or…
learn takedowns and throws. once the guy is on the ground, the friends can come in to stomp on him!

[Stray_Dog]

[quote=“TainanCowboy”]from the article

“Usually in fights people are kicked when they fall over and one of the ways to reduce kicking is to reduce severe intoxication because fewer people would fall over”…Professor Jonathan Shepherd

and:

[quote]"Mr Martin Shalley, consultant in A&E at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and president of the British Association of Emergency Medicine said the study reflected his own experience.
“Once you are on the floor, you’re at great risk.”[/quote]

Academia chimes in with the obvious.[/quote]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[ceevee369]

Nice topic guys. really… what is the point ? Only pussies hit someone who is already on the floor. Pathetic.