Fighting = barbaric?

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** January 8th, 2007, 6:47 pm

Some people think that fighting is rather, well quoting my school’s golf coach, “barbaric”. Well, I don’t find it barbaric. Yes, a bunch of gangbangers wrestling on the streets over some money is sort of barbaric. But how are sports that have strength, agility, tactics, and speed, most notably boxing, martial arts, etc. “barbaric”? Because they don’t have people running around after a ball?

Discuss.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 8th, 2007, 6:47 pm

Mark · **Posted:** January 8th, 2007, 6:53 pm

I wouldn't call fighting a sport... unless you mean boxing/wrestling which is still :roll:

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Mikhail · **Posted:** January 8th, 2007, 9:24 pm

Eh I don't find it barbaric but i easily can kill a person with my fists if i don't control my power.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** January 9th, 2007, 3:55 am

Hahahahaha. Tactics in boxing. Hhahahahahahaa.

What "tactics" would that be? Don't get hit in the face as much?

Kick boxing, boxing infact any form of boxing is just brutal, it's pointless it's watching two men smash each others face in. It's not entertaining, it's certainly not tactical. XD

Yeah, boxing i'm against, i think it's a morons game.

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Eh I don't find it barbaric but i easily can kill a person with my fists if i don't control my power.

Use the force, right?

Ranging God · **Posted:** January 9th, 2007, 9:02 am

I dont know...

Figting is human nature, adn human nature is barbaric.
So I guess it is..

Pat · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 12:22 am

not all martial arts are barbaric, just the one's that come the US...

i take taekwondo and judo and i really don't find it barbaric at all. A lot of it is not really omg-kill-the-other-dude-now. A lot is practice and training to master your technique. and besides, Taekwondo and judo are olympic sports lol.

Adbot · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 12:22 am

Hel · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 5:15 am

Rune Beast0 wrote:

a bunch of gangbangers wrestling on the street

Hahahaha. I like you.

It isn't barbaric, it's a reversion to our instincts to survive.

Mikhail · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 3:02 pm

I take Karate,Judo, and TKD, but Mostly i use SAMBO Combinations (Self Defense without Weapons), its Used by Special Forces Especially Russian Spetsnaz (Special Ops), Well but using sambo is Easy Kill, Its like one hit to the neck and your dead, research about it....Before flaming my posts :roll:

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 3:24 pm

The Beatles wrote:

I take Karate,Judo, and TKD, but Mostly i use SAMBO Combinations (Self Defense without Weapons), its Used by Special Forces Especially Russian Spetsnaz (Special Ops), Well but using sambo is Easy Kill, Its like one hit to the neck and your dead, research about it....Before flaming my posts :roll:

I wasn't flaming you, just making a joke, i honestly don't believe you could kill me in one hit or at all really, don't really think anyone on these forums can manage to kill someone in one deadly blow with their hands. XD

Alex · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 3:38 pm

Hmm Yeah don't know about that but hit someone on the bridge of the nose, that will hurt!

Mikhail · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 6:26 pm

And well do you know what does blow to the neck causes?

Waynehead · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 8:20 pm

My dad tought me how do kill someone with my hands if i really had to, im not going into any details, but fighting isn't really "barberic" but if you fight like chicks (not in a bad way chicks fight dirty and beat the crap out of each other) I suppose that could be considered "barberic" its all in your point of view

Mushroom Queen · **Posted:** January 10th, 2007, 8:33 pm

Ranging God wrote:

I dont know...

Figting is human nature, adn human nature is barbaric.
So I guess it is..

I agree. No matter how civilised humanity becomes, we will always have that instinctive part of us.

Rune Beast0 · **Posted:** January 11th, 2007, 8:22 pm

Mushroom Queen wrote:

Ranging God wrote:

I dont know...

Figting is human nature, adn human nature is barbaric.
So I guess it is..

I agree. No matter how civilised humanity becomes, we will always have that instinctive part of us.

Yeah, like in the RuneScape bestiary (the one they haven't updated for months :roll:

), it says about humans "whether they are civilised or not, is another matter" or something like that.

This goes back to the Stone Age, where people probably fought to be leader of a tribe or whatever. It's simply human nature.

But adding on to what some others are saying, martial arts does require a lot of practicing your techniques, and it's not omg-kill-the-other-guy-now either. It's like shooting free throws in your driveway to be able to make them in a basketball game. You have to practice to become better (clearly

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