paranoidandroid wrote:Do in the US. people really use headlocks and full nelsons etc. in street fights? Here its more !pushing!, haymakers, falling to the ground, grab a beer cup and smash it over head, throw things, many against few...
If so, is it because grappling and wrestling is more embedded in your culture (WWE, High school wrestling etc)?
We did a workshop about 5 years ago on the "top ten UK street attacks" according to police figures. AFAIR the list was
1. Push to chest, followed by striking to the head.
2. A swinging punch to the head.
3. A front clothing grab, followed by punch to the head.
4. A front clothing grab, two hands, followed by a head butt.
5. A front clothing grab, two hands, followed by a knee to the groin.
6. A bottle, glass, or ashtray to the head.
7. A lashing kick to groin/lower legs.
8. A broken bottle/glass jabbed to face.
9. A slash with knife, most commonly a 3 to 4" lock blade knife or kitchen utility knife.
10. A grappling style head lock.
Don't know how up to date these figures are, or how wide the survey was, but they fit in with my experience. I suspect ashtrays (smoking ban) and glassings (plastic glasses) are not so common now