Hobbies.14:35 Jan 26 2013
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What do people do these days to keep busy?
Making things is usually one of them such as art and sculptures.
Collecting things.
Reading books.
Well my old hobbies were a bit more dangerous and much more fun than that.
Many years ago, me and my crew decided to do some street fighting, bare knuckled boxing with some elbows and kicks involved etc, it was quite fun actually and we did it for quite awhile.
When we started to get bored, we would add different fight rules such as submissions or knock-out only rules (no giving up or quitting allowed), this led some of us to dabble in wrestling, though I got bored of it and decided to do a bit of MMA and boxing instead, after all why restrict yourself? we used what we learned to make our fights more interesting.
Welcome to fight night I would say. lol
First blood was very good, we had to constantly be evasive and defensive while trying to get a good strike to make our opponent bleed. It was quite interesting since combatants could easily make each other bleed in one punch so they were very careful.
Submissions, well that speaks for itself and the ones who stayed on to learn more wrestling ended up having the advantage here.
knock out fights, I and a few others had an advantage, not only because of my strength but because I learned some MMA and boxing, I hybridized the two to make my style unrecognizable and unpredictable, others followed my example and were damn good fighters.
Dueling, this was an interesting fight type I personally came up with it after watching some people do some kendo.
So we had two duel types, traditional fencing and kendo style fights.
Since there was no protection, the dueling weapons were blunt, and luckily too since some of my crew always ended up getting lunged and poked quite nastily.
Drunken style, no not the martial arts style of the same time but simply getting drunk....really drunk and attempting to fight. Rules varied since both could be drunk or only one in which said drunk was at a disadvantage. KOs were frequent here since it did not take much to knock out someone who was wasted. Hell, in one funny incident someone passed out before the fight even began lmfao. I think I still have the picture as well.
"Kicking it" was what we called our version of kickboxing, no matter what our fighting style was if any, only kicks were allowed, there was funny because a lot of people ended up getting kicked in the goonies a lot.
"One armed man" was another interesting fight, combatants had one armed tied and were to fight with only one arm. No kicking was allowed.
"No armed men" was like the above just with both hands and arms tied, so headbutting was their only offensive move. This fight always made me laugh because it reminded me of chickens pecking. lol
We could have done this for years but a sore loser or disgruntled member ended up grassing us up, so we had to stop. I have not seen some of my old crew in a while, typing all this has made me a little bit nostalgic...I may seek them out.
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KeeperOfTheShadows
19:15 Feb 05 2013
Sounds like fun