It all depends. Some will in fear of injury, however others will not because they either want the challenge or want to call your bluff. If someone has seen you hurt another than they might be less willing to try something. However, if you are just bragging about kicking someones *** then be ready to be messed with alot. Nobody likes a cocky person, and they will try to hurt you either mentally or physically. It is best to keep your training or fight record to yourself and use whatever skill in fighting you have to defend yourself.
Not in general per say. If people know me and my background then yes and I have even had some of the younger guys say that they would never have thought twice about giving me a hard time about something based on my age before they knew me. Knowing me now though like they do they are glad they never did and several have said they think a little more carefully about other people that they don't know as that person could be anyone.
I think people that don't know me are going to try to do whatever it is they are wanting to try and do and don't think much about anything else and certainly don't know me usually. I have had to deal with someone before on a physical level and then later they or their friends say something like "so you are that guy-I heard about you". That of course can be taken a couple of different ways and I don't hear that as much as I did ten years ago but then again I am not out and about like I was back then and instead like the anonymity that retirement brings and allows me to some extent.
Having a reputation can work a couple of different ways really when you think about it and can even bring you trouble. I would rather be known and respected for other things than being a tough, physical kind of person now. I guess that's part of being older and more mature because I of course did not think like that 20-30 years ago.
As n4sr said, it all depends. In my school, no one messed with me because I didn't mess with anyone. Some people knew that i practiced Martial Arts but I didn't go about announcing it, nor did I think I was the best.
The people who think themselves as an "***-kicker" are usually the ones who get their asses kicked.
I like the idea of being humble. How can you be mean to someone who is nice?
You just graduate to a larger pond. Those in the small pond may not want to mess with the big fish, but there are still sharks bigger than the big fish, and killer whales bigger than the shark and whales bigger than the killer whale.
Then there's the dinosaur asteroid killer whose bigger than all the whales on earth put together. Then there's the time when the moon fell into the Earth and blasted off most of the atmosphere.
Lower threat tier opponents may stop messing with you, but when you graduate to a larger pond, you just get more equal opponents. The idea that most young people have of getting good enough to beat all the challengers in their neighborhood, and that means nobody will mess with them, is naive. It's a temporary state of affairs.
No. They see that as a challenge. Most will avoid fighting with you, but others will "see red" just thinking you could beat them. When I worked at one bar as a bouncer I got a reputation. Guys (the other bouncer laughingly called them "gunslingers") would come to that bar just to "try me out". I didn't like that much, but I had already been "established", so I had to deal with it.
My advice is to avoid the "butt-kicker" moniker if you can.
yes there is a kid roughly my age no one messes with because he has been in a lot of fights. but any fighter that trains wont be scared. and he has got his *** kicked on a couple occasions by me and a few of my friends i train with.
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It all depends. Some will in fear of injury, however others will not because they either want the challenge or want to call your bluff. If someone has seen you hurt another than they might be less willing to try something. However, if you are just bragging about kicking someones *** then be ready to be messed with alot. Nobody likes a cocky person, and they will try to hurt you either mentally or physically. It is best to keep your training or fight record to yourself and use whatever skill in fighting you have to defend yourself.
Not in general per say. If people know me and my background then yes and I have even had some of the younger guys say that they would never have thought twice about giving me a hard time about something based on my age before they knew me. Knowing me now though like they do they are glad they never did and several have said they think a little more carefully about other people that they don't know as that person could be anyone.
I think people that don't know me are going to try to do whatever it is they are wanting to try and do and don't think much about anything else and certainly don't know me usually. I have had to deal with someone before on a physical level and then later they or their friends say something like "so you are that guy-I heard about you". That of course can be taken a couple of different ways and I don't hear that as much as I did ten years ago but then again I am not out and about like I was back then and instead like the anonymity that retirement brings and allows me to some extent.
Having a reputation can work a couple of different ways really when you think about it and can even bring you trouble. I would rather be known and respected for other things than being a tough, physical kind of person now. I guess that's part of being older and more mature because I of course did not think like that 20-30 years ago.
As n4sr said, it all depends. In my school, no one messed with me because I didn't mess with anyone. Some people knew that i practiced Martial Arts but I didn't go about announcing it, nor did I think I was the best.
The people who think themselves as an "***-kicker" are usually the ones who get their asses kicked.
I like the idea of being humble. How can you be mean to someone who is nice?
You just graduate to a larger pond. Those in the small pond may not want to mess with the big fish, but there are still sharks bigger than the big fish, and killer whales bigger than the shark and whales bigger than the killer whale.
Then there's the dinosaur asteroid killer whose bigger than all the whales on earth put together. Then there's the time when the moon fell into the Earth and blasted off most of the atmosphere.
Lower threat tier opponents may stop messing with you, but when you graduate to a larger pond, you just get more equal opponents. The idea that most young people have of getting good enough to beat all the challengers in their neighborhood, and that means nobody will mess with them, is naive. It's a temporary state of affairs.
No. They see that as a challenge. Most will avoid fighting with you, but others will "see red" just thinking you could beat them. When I worked at one bar as a bouncer I got a reputation. Guys (the other bouncer laughingly called them "gunslingers") would come to that bar just to "try me out". I didn't like that much, but I had already been "established", so I had to deal with it.
My advice is to avoid the "butt-kicker" moniker if you can.
yes there is a kid roughly my age no one messes with because he has been in a lot of fights. but any fighter that trains wont be scared. and he has got his *** kicked on a couple occasions by me and a few of my friends i train with.
worked for me. all i needed was one opponent and one spinning side kick to the solarplex and that was it
No one really cares.
No, it gets you into more fights.