Rye Miles #13621 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 How come in just about all the fights in cowboy movies when one guy knocks down another guy to the ground he then JUMPS on him!!! Would you jump on the guy that you just knocked on the ground???
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 Only if I could drive my boot heels into his kidneys then jump right off. Far as proning out on the opponent, no way in the cotton pickin'. Once they're down, a kick, a stomp, if I can do that without getting grabbed, otherwise distance, acquire weapon, reassess. (I do mean weapon. Rock, club, pitch fork, singletree, rope handle bucket, anything that The Wise Man called an Evener!)
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 One of the best is John Wayne versus Randolph Scott in The Spoilers (1942). Together they destroy Marlene Dietrich’s saloon!
Pat Riot Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 The only way I get on the ground with another guy is if I got knocked there first and he jumps on me...big mistake. I do not play well in that scenario. When I watched these UFC? fights with my son-in-law, which I only did because I was at his house and he wanted to watch, I watched each of these fights with these guys getting on the ground and playing grab-@#$ all I could say was "The only way you'd find me in that situation is if a weapon was involved and I was trying to get to it". When I was in 9th grade I had a fight after school with kid that was bigger than me. I was holding my own until he managed to get me tangled up and he threw me to the ground and then he did the move Rye mentioned. He puffed all up and jumped on me. As he was coming down my fist was going up and I hit him in the jaw and knocked his butt out! I couldn't believe it. There I lay all 85 pounds of me with this big kid laying on top of me knocked out cold. Some kids drug him off me and I went and got on my bus and went home. The next day I got a paddling and 5 days detention. He just got a paddling. Punk never bothered me again.
DocWard Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 I don't recall who to attribute it to, but I still remember it: "They say never kick a man when he is down. I don't understand this. He's on the ground, your foot's on the ground. Seems like the perfect time to kick him."
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 I larned in grade school, If you knock some one down, don;t let him get up. It was a tough lesson.
Pat Riot Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 When I was a little kid my Dad taught me to "fight like a man" and "fight fair". That meant; Never hit a guy with glasses. Use your fists, not your feet and never bite or scratch. Never kick a man when he's down. Always let a man up when he gets knocked down. Always let the other guy take the first swing. The first real fight I was in all that went out the window because the other kid wasn't taught any of that stuff... Later on my Dad taught me to fight the way he fought. We'll just say that I never lost after that...and if I did, it was back on, the next day.
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 said: I larned in grade school, If you knock some one down, don;t let him get up. It was a tough lesson. did that one time let a guy up. Afterwards he cold cocked me. I learned my lesson, run faster. MT
Blackwater 53393 Posted February 7, 2018 Posted February 7, 2018 One of the reasons I NEVER wore sneakers in high school. It was cowboy boots or steel toed lineman's boots for me!! Never get down on the ground with 'em!! Never let 'em up!!! REMEMBER!!! If you're in a fair fight, your tactics SUCK!!!
Keystone, SASS # 47578 Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 What ? No Marquess of Queensberry Rules ???
Tall Tale Todd Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 I was taught that the best way to respect an opponent was to beat them as badly as you possibly could. That came in handy when I was defending myself against bullies. If you win the first one big enough, you win all the next ones at the same time.
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted February 8, 2018 Posted February 8, 2018 6 hours ago, Keystone, SASS # 47578 said: What ? No Marquess of Queensberry Rules ??? NO!
DocWard Posted February 9, 2018 Posted February 9, 2018 I grew up in a decidedly rough area of the city. I didn't know I went to an "inner city" school until much later. "Fighting fair" wasn't a thing. I also learned that, despite all of the grappler's arguments to the contrary, the last place a person wanted to end up was on the ground.
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