From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv
On 2026-08-04 4:31 p.m., shawn wrote:
They take five women fighters trained in various styles
from a MMA fighter to a judo expert and pit them against
a 250lb attacker to see how they do. They give each woman
multiple scenarios to work through from attacks from behind, attacks
from the front and so on.
While the women do well it's clear the bigger stronger attacker has a
huge advantage even with trained female fighters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boknLDLS7yE
120 LBS Female Fighter vs 250 LBS Attacker
One of my friends from university, Pete, had a black belt in one of the martial arts (probably karate but I'm not positive) and I remember
asking him to confirm that if he came up against some big galoot without martial arts training, he could clean the big guy's clock in nothing
flat without breaking a sweat. His answer surprised me. He said it would
be far from obvious who would win the fight. He said his first choice
would be not to fight at all but if he got cornered and had no other
options, he would fight and hope for a very quick victory. He said even
if the other guy had no training, he might very well be able to take a
lot of punishment. Pete said his best chance would be to disable him
very quickly, otherwise, he (Pete) would tire very quickly and then be
very vulnerable.
(This is a conversation from probably 40 years ago so I'm paraphrasing
but that was the gist of it.)
That was quite an eye-opener for me after having watched shows like Kung
Fu where the martial artist always seemed to win pretty effortlessly.
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Rhino
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