Streetfighting to Shootfighting!!

I particularly remember that I got beaten up a hell lot during my Pre-unversity years! Some how most of the time it used to be for almost no reason (I’m guessing that it had something to do with me being in a fight before or guys were just jealous of me being a girl magnet ) or for the same reason- A GIRL!!!

Its always a girl who starts these have you ever noticed?? Or its somehow connected to a girl!! Anyway as I remember I had got into my fair share of fights with people I never knew or had never heard off and I used to (for some reason no clue why actually I guess I thought it was macho at the time ;P ) go alone to face these strangers!! I however was not as dumb as I may have come off! I actually did some homework before facing these “dons”, I  had a cousin who was actually pretty deep into this shit and got out way before I got in, so I used to ask him who I was up against and depending on his assessment on the “prickmeter” (where the scale was between prick to a complete a**h***) I’d decide if I was gonna fight or try and compromise!! Of course I got beaten, stabbed, impaled, etc,(not that I never returned the favour) but I  guess the past is for lessons……………to bad I’m a really slow learner!!!

I’m still into fighting, but now (as I like putting it) I do it legally and get paid to do it!! I learnt a lot from shootfighters like technique of punching and conserving energy into an attack, conditioning multiple opponent attacks and defence. Of course I did no the most part of it ( except conditioning) because of street but the finer details I got to learn like acting to throw your opponent off and get the upper hand in a fight, or frisking while acting to get to the weapon first. Shootfighting also changed my perspective of what I’d call a weapon!! Then a weapon was anything that was offensive and hard and/or sharp like stones, knives, rods, chains, knuckle dusters and so on. Now I know that every thing is a weapon! i’ve actually started thinking of weapons that are defensive also and its amazing that there are so many weapons that you don’t even have to specialise in to know how to use!

All in all I learnt a lot from the streets and i fine tuned them from skill of “survival of the fittest” to skill of  “TOUCH ME AND I’LL BREAK YOUR HAND OFF”!!!

I was nervous when I got into a fight back then but now I don’t worry I’ve learnt how I can diffuse a situation, to actually getting out of a situation if it should come to a fight!!!

A streetfight