Timeline for Multi-opponent martial arts systems and strategies?
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| Apr 29, 2021 at 0:52 | comment | added | DukeZhou | Avoidance and potentially flight is always recommended as the first strategy! (It seems as though only mostly young men see standing and fighting as a matter of honor, myself included in previous decades;) But, for instance, I've seen guys turn fit, determined attackers around just per the crazy look in their eye and body language. There is even a strategy of conveying acknowledgement that you may not prevail, but you're taking at least one of them to the hospital with you. Merely the way one holds a beer bottle or a pool cue can signal this.(It's a minimax strategy you also see in nature.) | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 0:44 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | @DukeZhou What I implied is that it's not very reliable. It can work if your opponents aren't really bent on coming after you. Because, in my experience, you can avoid for only so long before the guy decides you're not getting away, runs your down, grabs you, and won't let you go. That's what I expect would happen if you stay there long enough trying to dodge. But who knows, maybe given the right set of circumstances, that guy will not pursue, and the situation will deescalate on its own. That's optimal. Just not very likely. If your goal is to slip and run away, that's fine to try first. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 0:34 | comment | added | DukeZhou | The variety of scenarios which could occur regarding multiple attackers are greatly varied. In my experience, people who start fights are often fueled by alcohol, so already at a disadvantage. I expect coordinated attacks by multiple opponents with training are the rarest scenario, outside of nightclub bouncing, when the bouncers mob the attacker together. Could you possibly adapt this answer to acknowledge the full potential dimensionality of the subject? Assuming attackers with skill and training is too limited a scope. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 0:30 | comment | added | Steve Weigand | @DukeZhou I think we've all (or a lot of us) have experienced similar things, even with just a single opponent. You can dodge, redirect, dissolve, and so on. Your goal isn't to win but to stalemate. It works for a while. You just hope that during that time your opponent gives up or tires. Sometimes it works. | |
| Apr 29, 2021 at 0:24 | comment | added | DukeZhou | A legit tai chi master related a similar story—attacked by a truckload of workers and just fended them off until they got tired. This particular master has the best hsing-yi focusing I've ever seen, but he must have felt escalating was unnecessary or counter-productive, since the attackers were not trained martial artists. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 4:40 | history | edited | Steve Weigand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 23, 2021 at 22:24 | history | answered | Steve Weigand | CC BY-SA 4.0 |