There's a couple of Russian twin studboys here in the Keys who are classic examples of this. They are sitting here at a table right in front of me*. They've been juicing for a couple years now, and while they aren't monsters or anything, they have about 20-25 pounds on me at least, but there's no doubt in my mind I could take them.
That's not mere macho braggadocio, I work out in the same gym as them and I know what they are capable of--plus neither of them has any martial arts training, you can tell. Plus I have heard about a couple fights and near fights they've been in, they went down or backed down fast. They have told people they come from a Russian mafia family, but it's got to be bullshit.
I think it's mental. I mean so much of strength and skill is in the state of mind, and some people just don't have it, no matter what they look like, or how impressed most people might be by the appearance.
Like the hardest I ever got hit was by a little guy, I swear he hit me so hard on my forehead, my lower jaw snapped down and back up and chipped a little edge off the corner of one of my teeth! Serves me right for assuming a friend would pull his punches while sparring with me--some will and some won't, and he sure didn't. Plus instead of using my arm length to hold him back and standing tall so he couldn't reach, I was squatting down and letting him get in my range like a dumbass--but not after that blow...
My dad, on the other hand, was a huge, gigantic motherfucker--way, way bigger-boned and heavier than me, and strong as hell, without steroids of any kind. But not the type to kickass, unless he was really, really, really mad--in which case all he had to do was yell at them and they would pee themselves. I saw him back down from a couple situations where he could have killed them all with ease. Just not a fighter. Not that that made him any less a man (unlike these Russian pussies who are chumps), it's just interesting how it works.
*Yeah I am posting from work, which I normally would never do, but seeing as how I'm not even supposed to be here and won't make shit compared to my regular nights, well--here I am.








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