you can be the most deadly tier 1 operator to ever live, trained in every martial art known to man, and a ball of pure muscle and freakish dense bones with crazy reach

..and still be dropped by a semi-coordinated group of willowy, gangly attackers (with a plan of attack) that combined might only barely hit your weight class

one of the basest reasons that collective strength always trumps individualism

(not trying to directly attack your point, obviously he would make a very dangerous target, just musing since i've seen plenty of street fight videos)

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My pal when he was homeless and a heroin addict, while having fairly decently done a shot ended out getting into a fight with an army guy and kinda assumed he was gonna get his ass beat, he ended out winning pretty handily despite being high as a kite and malnourished as hell

[–] Des@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

lol this is extremely cool and good (fucking up the troop, not shot, although maybe it helped as a sort of terrible cost combat boost!)

also when you have little to lose you can definitely go harder then some overconfident asshole who thinks they are trained to kill by the best

but is really no better then some IDF shitbag.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

He was on heroin which is pretty great as a painkiller and thought he was fucked. He went in without any plan of offense and then it turned out the guy was really bad at fighting and missed his doped up ass with a few swings and left himself super open and the advantage was taken and then soldier boy sucked at taking a punch too. He was telling me the story cause it was really funny how easy it was to beat up this soldier (who was also in uniform at a bar and got into a fight with a homeless dope fiend, and then lost) was to beat.

[–] WasteTime@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Tell your pal I say thank you for his service.

[–] Murple_27@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

you can be the most deadly tier 1 operator to ever live, trained in every martial art known to man, and a ball of pure muscle and freakish dense bones with crazy reach

…and still be dropped by a semi-coordinated group of willowy, gangly attackers (with a plan of attack) that combined might only barely hit your weight class

I would contest that this is entirely dependent on what the state of weapons & armaments technology of the day is. It's not as if Knightly Castes have never been an effective paradigm. But either way this dude was jumped by like 30 people, seemingly of both men & women. The personal qualities of whoever is being entrapped is not the most relevant factor in this situation.