Have you ever been in a physical fight?

Yeah, I've been bullied before for having an overbite. Fought back and defeated my bullies. Then, I became one until someone whom I thought would be an easy target taught me a lesson. This experience taught me to stand up for myself and understand the limits of power.

Few times. Mostly pretty quick. The general masses don't know combat and I can defend myself just fine. The most difficult were just sparring matches with other martial artists. Once held out for 2 hours between us. Was pretty awesome. Course we were friends who didn't want to kill one another so we held out on deathblows. But still. It is what it is. It can be scary if it gets too serious. But if you want to protect yourself, you have to be willing to not blink.

Hmm. I've only been in one fight and it was with a guy who was a little shorter than me. I'd say it was a tie or maybe it was my win. I didn't get hurt but he did. Nothin to brag about though. Just a bloody lip.

Fighting was my thing till i came of age, both competitive and street tho it makes me wonder how you guys could have coped with it. I was lucky i trained to the point of social awkwardness. But for others who couldn't how did you get past that?

Not since school, I think my last was about 10 years ago. (damn, can't believe it been that long...) I had a lot of pent up aggression back then, and received my share of grief from people that lead me into fights. After school I made a promise to myself to try and avoid getting into pointless fights. I mellowed out and became a much calmer person as a result.