The Dumbasses Are Out In Force (Pekka and GT, also small guys who fight look here)

[Ben Kenobi]

Sikander:

How do you throw someone significantly heavier than you? I used to hate my judo practice simply because everyone would have 30-40 pounds on me.

In the practice, they would bounce me around, since I would be so light to throw, and I could hardly get them over my hip.

[Mr. Harley]

BK,

In answer to that, you MUST focus on balance. When I had my wife try the hip throw I described, it surprised m e how differently she had to do it, but I have almost double her body weight.

For example, what for me was stepping in and rotating my body required her to bend her torso to pull me off balance effectively. I didn't expect this. However, Space will have one big advantage - his opponent is hopefully drunk. That means while he gets a certain immunity to pain, he is already off balance.

Space, sorry 'bout the advice. I forgot, you are in a small, ISOLATED town and public intoxication is not something that will get your butt thrown in jail. I neglected the isolated context.

Given your situation I almost agree with Pax. Except don't instigate, but if you can tell this is one of the agressive jerks with whom a fight is inevitable, and he's drunk, let him start it - in front of witnesses besides his buddies. That way you are standing up but not starting it. My life changed in seventh grade bacause of that, my father had kept stressing "Turn the Other Cheek" and I had done it for six years at the school. I was known as an easy target, and also known as studious and, even though the didn't have the term, a geek.

Life on the playground was hell, with low-level casual physical violence (isolated kicks, punches on a routine basis). My growth finally kicked in (I was small) and I got a book on Judo, and practiced with my brother God bless him (why I know about the falling bit). Both standing up for myself and even better yet, winning (I berserked, but that was after "winning" the fight and getting jumped from behind a second time) people decided I was better left alone, and moved on to new prey. My next six years weren't too bad.

[Space05us]

Show a willingness to fight and people will be less likely to want to try you. Unless you live in one of those hick towns where everyone loves to fight for fights sake

sad but true.

Its the weekend, a three day weekend.

we'll see what happens.

[JohnT]

Yeah... aren't you supposed to be out, kickin' Samoan ass?

When you meet him, ask him if his name is Tony Rocky Horror.

JULES
You remember Antwan Rockamora?
Half-black, half-Samoan, usta call
him Tony Rocky Horror.

VINCENT
Yeah maybe, fat right?

JULES
I wouldn't go so far as to call the
brother fat. He's got a weight
problem. What's the ****** gonna
do, he's Samoan.

VINCENT
I think I know who you mean, what
about him?

JULES
Well, Marsellus ****ed his ass up
good. And word around the
campfire, it was on account of
Marsellus Wallace's wife.

[Space05us]

Samoans are my friends, I would never kick thier asses.

Im supposed to be kicking Eskimo ass.

[Pekka]

Eskimos you say? Those baby seal clubbing raw eat meating guys? Club'em.

[Space05us]

Those baby seal clubbing raw eat meating guys? Club'em.

Im not going to club myself.

[Ben Kenobi]

In answer to that, you MUST focus on balance. When I had my wife try the hip throw I described, it surprised me how differently she had to do it, but I have almost double her body weight.

For example, what for me was stepping in and rotating my body required her to bend her torso to pull me off balance effectively.

Thanks. It's been awhile.

I think I also needed to work on my falls, since I would get so sore after being bounced around.