PowerLifting Good for Self-Defence too!

[riverrock]

Hello All,

This morning I was walking down the street of my Inner city Suburb. Anyhow, this guy walking against me is behaving very aggressively. He was a fairly decent size and looked like a real scumbag. He encounters the first guy he meets, shouts at him and throws a punch. The innocent passer-by runs. So, I am walking along behind this and I just know whats about to happen - I'm his next target.

Anyhow, he's coming towards me very aggressively and by his posture was coming to throw a head-butt. I had no-where to go except straight towards him. Anyhow, decided to put some of the PL skills I learned by giving him a blast of some explosive power and strength. I hit him with my shoulder full on. I'm not joking guys, I drove him back easily 10 feet before he toppled over. Now, I'm not a big guy, but well able to do the powerlifting. The look of shock on his face was as if to say "I just picked the wrong MoFo to mess with". Needless to say, he picked himself up and walked off.

Was amazed at my own strength and I owe it all to The deadlift!

 

[DaPit26]

yeah once i started pl'ing instead of the average "weight training", in highschool, i could take motherfuckers out of their cleats in football thanks to dl, squat and of course my fav. bench press

 

[blut wump]

I think we tend to forget just how much strength we come to take for granted compared with the typical man in the street. Even normal, fit, strong guys just don't have the kind of power that training for strength gives you. Anyone remember when they felt mighty at being able to bench 225?

Well handled, Riverrock.

 

[Devastation]

lol well done rock

 

[musclemuscle]

k to u rock

 

[BlondBomber]

Fuck yeah, brother!

Normal people have no fucking clue how much the big 3 translate to real world power!

It's good to see you have enough self-control to not really fuck that guy up and let him go.

 

[riverrock]

Fuck yeah, brother!

Normal people have no fucking clue how much the big 3 translate to real world power!

It's good to see you have enough self-control to not really fuck that guy up and let him go.

Thats true. There's honour in defending yourself, but no honour at all in beating someone up just because you can. I'm sure he took a few days off from hassling by-passers after that though! lol!

 

[stilleto]

i'm glad you're ok. i haven't had to defend myself in a long time but i'm looking forward to when i do have to.

 

[perkele]

Without my PL background I would have been in trouble many times with guys bigger than me. I'm 5'6½ and I worked as a bouncer about 6 months in the early 90's, and there wasn't a single guy who I didn't threw out when it came to that. It wasn't easy time because there were always those who underestimated me because of my size, and almost looked a change to have collision with me. Smartest thing ever was to quit the job.