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Originally Posted by VydorScope
Hitch,
I hold a Black Belt in American Freestyle Karate, I am second yellow in Aikidho, and I have also trained in Sho do khan, and just recently started Kali. I am undefeated in my class in tournament fighting.
I am 180pounds, 5'11" My wife, also black belt and trained in more styles then I have is 5'1" 100 pounds.My 9 year old son is also a black belt, and is training in Aikidho and Kali now with us.
So I have a wide range of sizes to compare. And yes, we fight for fun around my house.
I agree with GMW you are over simplifying it. There are blows that my wife can deliver that will kill an adult man, or disable him. She has a lot less room for error then I do, but I promise you, she can win the fight against a superior sized attacker. Put a weapon in her hand and it just gets better.
The key is that in a real life/death fight - you have seconds at best to win. These Hollywood fights that go on for 16 million hours are total BS. If it comes down to a head on, straight up boxing match, no she does not stand a chance. But if it gets there, she has already lost. A contest of strength she can never win, a contest of timing, speed and skill, she has a chance.
As for this attacker, slashing both jugulars makes a big mess but if you know how to move you can keep the blood off you, and its fast easy and silent. Strength of the attacker/victim will not come in to play, however you will have a problem with reaching, so you may want to consider the femoral instead of the jugular.
A 22 with a silencer would also work well and less chance for error. If I was writing the story, I would go with the 22 and sub sonics + suppressor. Its fast, easy, believable, and realistic. Unless there was some special significance in the way she killed, there is no reason to get fancy, IMO.  |
Hi, VydorScope:
After leaving my term of service, I'd trained (yes, long ago, for those who recollect that I am no spring chicken) in both Shorei-ryu and Shotokan, as well as TKB (Thai Kickboxing), the latter of which suited me more, as I have extremely long legs with a lot more power than my naturally-spindly arms, no matter how much iron I threw around nor how much heavy-bag or speed-bag time I'd invest. I would agree with you 100% that all fights in the real world are over in seconds; even drunken brawls between two utterly untrained "air-fighters" in a bar are over in a minute or so. Even most matches don't go on very long, and that's a controlled situation, generally without full-contact.
If your wife is that talented, good for her. (I'd also agree that there is
some advantage, in somewhat gymnastic sports, to being smaller, vis-a-vis center of gravity and
spin-up and delivery time on kicks and punches.) I didn't say that NO woman could EVER win a fight against a man; I said it is
generally the case. And, could a woman your wife's size deliver a lethal blow to a man? Can I, as I'm far, far taller than your wife? Yes, as I said in my 2nd post. What I said was, "she'd better deliver it" immediately, because if it gets into a slugfest, well... From your post, I
think you agree with that?
The OP's scenario is two deadly assassins, in a public bathroom. One male, one female. Frankly, my answer would have been the same had she described two men, one teeny and one large, as I also said previously. Just like, slashing the jugular is great, IF you are tall enough to get the angle around the neck. If your opponent (even assuming a dolt) is a foot or more taller than you, then, unless he's going to stand there and let you hop up on the toilet behind him, good luck with that. Just an observation. I concur that
the femoral is an excellent target. It has the advantage of not really requiring reach, although you do have to get inside a strike zone, generally speaking. OTOH, it's (as we phrased it when training in the service, as it's a highly-favored contact target) "one and done."
With regard to room for error, etc., as I said, the OP's post seemed to indicate that she had two
roughly-equivalently-skilled opponents, one bathroom, and she was asking about a gun. I still maintain that the suppressed .22 is her best bet. And I'll still maintain that on average, Tom Cruise or his female equivalent is going to get smashed by Chris (Chris? Liam? Sorry, not enough of a pop culture junkie to be sure which one was Thor, or whatever?) Hemsworth or Alexander Skaarsgard (or, I suppose, their female equivalent, as some women are that large; my sports physician, a competitive national athlete for decades, is). Just sayin'.
Also: great on training your son. Good on you, I mean it. More kids need to be trained in some type of competitive sport, and I'm a huge proponent of anything that requires that level of fitness.
I've had a series of injuries that have sidelined me now for nearly three years (my latest being a torn rotator cuff which morphed into bloody frozen shoulder), and I know how much I miss being fit; it's a lifestyle and it's fabulous that you're getting him into that mindset young.
Hitch