We never did the suckerpunch thing, but “dead legs” where you kneed someone and give them a charlie horse was huge. We only did it to people that “played”, but as a big dude that’s nervous to punch someone in a real confrontation…
I’ve ended a lot of fights by giving a dead leg and walking away. No one ever sees it coming, and even if they stand back up they ain’t chasing anyone down. There’s no permanent damage and they’ll be fine in a couple days, but knocking someone out and they fall wrong could be lethal. Plus, everyone is still ready to fight after getting knocked out. Losing the use of a leg is just confusing and takes the fight out of people.
I’m really surprised it’s not one of those things they teach in women’s self defense, it takes almost no effort if you can hit the right place reliably.
I remember seeing kids in the middle school bathroom choking each other and I thought it looked really dumb. Luckily all my friends agreed it was a dumb game. In highschool we did the dead leg game and also a “zop” game where you hit the kid’s forearm in the right spot to make a big bump form. I was never good at that game but I could give good dead legs. One time me and a buddy did a double dead leg to our other friend right before football practice. It was quite funny watching him try and run out to practice with both legs in pain. As I type it out I realize how mean it really was but at the time we all did it to each other so it was just normal.
Chokeout game was everywhere.
We never did the suckerpunch thing, but “dead legs” where you kneed someone and give them a charlie horse was huge. We only did it to people that “played”, but as a big dude that’s nervous to punch someone in a real confrontation…
I’ve ended a lot of fights by giving a dead leg and walking away. No one ever sees it coming, and even if they stand back up they ain’t chasing anyone down. There’s no permanent damage and they’ll be fine in a couple days, but knocking someone out and they fall wrong could be lethal. Plus, everyone is still ready to fight after getting knocked out. Losing the use of a leg is just confusing and takes the fight out of people.
I’m really surprised it’s not one of those things they teach in women’s self defense, it takes almost no effort if you can hit the right place reliably.
I remember seeing kids in the middle school bathroom choking each other and I thought it looked really dumb. Luckily all my friends agreed it was a dumb game. In highschool we did the dead leg game and also a “zop” game where you hit the kid’s forearm in the right spot to make a big bump form. I was never good at that game but I could give good dead legs. One time me and a buddy did a double dead leg to our other friend right before football practice. It was quite funny watching him try and run out to practice with both legs in pain. As I type it out I realize how mean it really was but at the time we all did it to each other so it was just normal.
Yeah, I remember the dead leg one now too. Haven’t thought about it in a long time. I wonder how much of this stupid fad shit I just do not remember.