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[Hi Im Reiko]

Flightless Butterfly

171-185 lbs

That's thirty pounds heavier than Crawley at least

I'd still beat him off skill and KO power alone.  

[The Thunder Tyrant]

Crawley is like 155 lb, which is like.. Lightweight class, I think?

Vintrict would be like 182 probably to stay in that weight-class, if he wanted to be on the heavier end.

I would probably go for heavyweight and push for 210-220 lb if I were going to do ANY combat sport.  

[Flightless Butterfly]

The Darth Vizzle

Goddamn, nowhere NEAR. I've never measured since I don't train for specifics like that, but I know my arms aren't that big. In fact, I don't even think I've seen someone in person with arms that big, except my father and a guy that used to play football in my HS that had arms around that size, and went on to do some serious powerlifting in college.

The only reason people think I look impressive in the weightroom is because I happen to be the biggest guy there.. but that's not a huge accomplishment, in comparison to other guys who have trained longer, I'm not that big or strong, especially in comparison to people like the guy above, Kyle, who is like a brickhouse.

My biceps are twelve but that muscle between my neck and top of my shoulder is over developed, due to a birth defect in my spine.

You are bigger than me, and definitely double digits. I would bet money that I'm within two inches of a right guess.

Crawley: You're like the lightweight thrown in with one of the boys from the Hawaiin natives. You'll jump around a lot, tire yourself out, then Darth would reach out and 'touch' you in an up close and personal way.

And I'm not just saying that because I like Darth better than you.

There is a reason for the different weight categories in fighting. You can't compete well out of your weight category. Not you specifically, but people in general.  

[Moxie Lightning]

Flightless Butterfly

Pat: Don't do it. When parents say that, it's never a good thing. If you lose, he'll ride your a** to improve, if you win, he'll whine and cry to your mother or worse yet get vindictive over getting his a** beat. It's a no win situation.

Nah, my pa' ain't like that. At worse, he'll just rub it in for a month if he beats me up, then sulk and stop cooking for a week if I whoop his. He just wants a way to stay in shape that's more interesting that just hitting the gym.


I dunno how I feel about this whole "effort" thing though. It sounds so tiring.  

[Moxie Lightning]

Mr Crawley

Make sure to never ever

....... my dad just told me he wants to take boxing classes with me.

Go for it.

A sissy beating up tough guys is an under-tapped source of humor.

I'm in such shitty shape though. I'd need to start some serious stamina work out if I wanna keep up with anyone under 50.  

[Vintrict]

My goal is primarily 175 at least. I'll be doing a lot of Taekwondo, at least. Thing is, I sort of don't want to do combat sports cause their systems are so restricted to points and the like. I want something more practical. people say I should do Krav Maga, but I tell them: "It's not my type of fighting."  

[Moxie Lightning]

Krav Maga sounds delicious. Something you'd drink with baklavas.  

[Enness Vakar]

If Krav Maga isn't your type of fighting, then you don't want practical. The only other really practical one is Jiu jitsu.  

[Hi Im Reiko]

Flightless Butterfly

You can't compete well out of your weight category. Not you specifically, but people in general.

I don't need to compete out of my weight category.

You don't need to be in the same weight class as someone to knock them out. And you don't need to be in the same weight class as someone to work them over with your hands.  

[The Thunder Tyrant]

I've actually been beaten in boxing by a lightweight. My friend was 140 lb and beat me on points/hits scored when we were sparring because he's so goddamn fast.

Like, he hit me three times and I was like "... ... WAT" because I didn't even register/see that s**t at first. He has the fastest jab at his boxing club, and I didn't actually have time to block when he'd stick me with it. He's also good at "fading", where he hits and hops out before someone can respond. He can do it to people in his weight class, doing it to someone 2-3 weight classes above him was probably pretty damn easy. Out of the ring, I've seen him KO dudes by fading like that. He'd lead them forward, then pop them square in the face and fade back out, and after one or two of those some people would be done and out.

Then in the next match I actually turtled a bit and when I hit him he hit the ropes, bounced off, and went right into my second punch and called it quits when it put him on his a**, because he knew if I kept catching him he'd never get a chance to recover because I was so much bigger. So as long as I didn't move much and just waited for him to get too close, he'd never get s**t done.

Point being, in boxing, a small guy CAN win because bigger guys lack the footwork to keep up. It's just a question of whether or not the larger guy can get a good hit off, because they're so much bigger that their physical strength will literally knock the smaller fighter off balance, especially if we're talking 2-3 weight class differences.  

[Vintrict]

Nighthunter

If Krav Maga isn't your type of fighting, then you don't want practical. The only other really practical one is Jiu jitsu.

It's like this: Krav Maga may by a practical system in this day and age that isn't diluted by sports and being "safer," but it doesn't fit "me" nor my body type. A lot of kicking-based styles or strong base styles, such as Southern Shaolin Kung Fu styles (Long Fist), fit better for me since they make use of my body's features, which is a very good thing. I could even take up Capeoira, which is very good for my size, but at the same time, I don't think it "fits" me.  

[The Thunder Tyrant]

I want to do Muay Thai.

Just because you never see big guys doing s**t like that. Always wondered if someone who was long legged would be good at it.  

[Enness Vakar]

Well you probably wont find anything very practical to fit that. Because mostly kicking based isn't very practical. You could do different styles and basically combine them, or try things and see what you like.

Edit: If I remember right, the dude in Unleashed doing Muay Thai type s**t was pretty big.  

[Moxie Lightning]

Just take tango classes.  

[Vahn Fah]

M16 fits me.

Easy win.