I'd Last Less Than a Minute

[tmcg]

Tidbit of info from tonight's Krav Maga class:

If you can run a mile and a half at top speed, then drop and do fifty pushups, then turn and do fifty situps, and then drink a glass of water without your hand shaking, you'll last 90 seconds in a street fight.

If you can't do that, you'll last under a minute.

More motivation to make it fast and make it count, if there is no alternative but to engage.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure it's a product of my sheltered life that I can't imagine a fight going on for 90 seconds. Most of the ones I've seen go like:

I did not!

You did TOO!!!

WHAM!

And they're over.

Of course, a few years ago I discovered this simple rule:

Most people are not going to hit you when you have a 100 pound Rottweiler sitting next to you.

Deb

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I think most fights are exactly like those three short lines. The panelists on "How to Write Fight Scenes" at Worldcon were just talking about how problematic that can be for fiction.

I imagine Rottweilers are useful deterrents, even if they're only 72 pounds. {g}