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My Dad Taught Me How To Fight

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
When i was 4 or 5 i started fighting my dad. We would fight in the living room and if i could touch a piece of furniture that was the ropes and he would let me up.

When i got older about 10 we went outside and we would box/wrestle. My Dad was 6 foot 5 and i am 5 foot 5. Every time i would get inside of him he would kick me with boots. He would try and slide his foot down my leg.

My Dad was the oldest of 7 kids. His Dad was the biggest, sorriest piece of crap known to man. My dad overcame that and was the greatest person i have ever known.

My Dad was farm strong. When his dad hit his mom at 15 my dad hit his father and then picked him up and slammed him to the ground and told him if he ever touched mom again he would * him for life.

His Mom was never hit again. I guess that is what made him such a good dad.

Comments

  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    Thank you for telling us about your dad.
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    Sounds like a decent man alright.
  • wpagewpage Member Posts: 10,201 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Taught you right...
  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    out of all the dudes I've known, the ones where their dad beat them up or kept them under their boot heel, turned out to be pieces of crap. the ones with a supportive dad turned out great and they got some heart.

    it's never "a chip off the ol' block" or genetics or whatever. it's 1/2 of how you were raised, and 1/2 of what you decide to do with it (if anything) that makes the man.
  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562
    edited November -1
    ^^^___ THAT RIGHT THERE - WHAT HE SAID ___^^^
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My oldest son in the top two crappy photos boxed in the Golden Gloves when he was a youngster and my youngest son in the bottom two photos was a black belt in Combat Hapkido when he was in his teens. Both of them are grown now and turned out to be good boys that can take care of themselves.


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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,366 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you had a great Dad Dave

    when I was maybe 4 or 5 years old neighbor kid always beat me up , my dad told me you better not come home crying again , if he bigger pick up a stick and beat him never loose again ,
    it worked ,, too well all thru school I loved to fight no matter if mine or not I would jump on top of or in the middle of a fight ,
    thank goodness I out grew that [:D]
    the other kid that was the original bully, we were friends for life ( have not seen him for 15 years he was headed to Florida after a major storm to get a foot hold in the construction , but always remembered the day I thumped him with that stick [:D]
  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Dad didn't teach me to fight but he spent a lot of time trying to teach me to control my temper. I feel very fortunate to not have been in many fights.
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