How many ten-year-olds can you beat in a fight?
Just wondering how many average 10 year olds you think you can fight off before being overwhelmed. Here are the basic terms of fighting: the kids are very angry at you, each one will fight you until they get hurt enough to quit or become unconscious, you are unarmed, and you are in a gated school playground as the battle arena. The playground is about 50 feet around, closed gate around in an octagon and closes up top like a dome. First one kid comes at you, then it adds one each time you defeat a group. Defeat 1 and 2 come, defeat the 2 then 3 come, and so on. Each group arrives by sliding down a pole into the middle playground and sliding down the slide. From there, they rush at you full force.
I feel confident in my abilities to fight. I'm pretty sure I can get to group 13, so that would be roughly give or take 70 kids if I can take a few out in that round.
What do you think?
Story time:
There was a group of kids in my home town (~15 of them, looked younger then 12) that somehow got this idea into their tiny heads that they could, as a group, rob people with impunity. They hung around the transit station and just 'strong armed' people into giving them their shit. This did actually work for a day or two until they tried to rob this one guy that wasn't taking it. So he punched one of the kids, picked him up by his legs and started beating the other kids with the kid he was holding. Never seen that group again.
There was a while where the going saying (a meme as it were) on the street was "I'll beat one motherfucker, with another motherfucker" and slight variations of that. Good times.
That sounds so unreal I'm having a hard time believing you. I've seen that action only in the Yakuza video game series :D
Lol, tbf I didn't see it myself, but was told by a bunch of people that did. There was a large group of kids roaming the transit station for a time.
That reminds me of the scene in Step Brothers when they start fighting the kids. I think he grabs a kid by the legs or arms and spins them around to hit the other kids.
Using the fallen bodies as a weapon crossed my mind, but you would want to take the smallest because even using an 80lb kid would wear your endurance quickly. It would be effective in a single wave or as a projectile but not in an unending battle.
Yea I wouldn't personally use them as weapons because of how heavy they are. My strategy would be punches, elbows, and kicks. One good punch or two should take a kid out. I also have really strong shins that would be unstoppable.
It depends on their degree of cooperation. If there's a young strategic genius commanding them, I guess 5 would be my maximum. However, if I'm dealing an army of regular dumb kids attacking at random I could easily incapacitate 20 or more using only my feet and fists.
If they're coming in line as you say the limit would be how long it takes for me to get tired. I'd probably be able to knock out 50 kids or so.
I'm worried that at some point they will bite and scratch me in groups and be overwhelmed around group 8+. I feel like at group 13 I will be defeated and gored.
I don't think you understand how weak 10 year olds can be. My nephew is 14 and he's still super weak.
A full force punch to the head would be immediate knockout. There would be no time for bites and scratches.
I'd only be concerned with getting tired or injuring my hands. I'd probably have to start kicking at some point. Which is not a problem cause 10 year olds are tiny.
Yea I hear you. I remember being 10, I was full of energy and weak as shit. That's why I chose that age because it would ultimately be a challenge of endurance.
I’d like to think I could manage to get through more than 50, but yea you’re probably right that fatigue would start setting in.
Gym coaches on the other hand I’d imagine getting through at least 300, kind of like Neo in the matrix.
Hahahaha I love that image of Neo going ham in that playground. I bet he could go on indefinitely.
Zero, definitely zero. I am not emotionally capable of hurting a 10 year old. Have you seen a 10 year old‽ They’re so cute. Even awful ones.
I think you would change your mind in the moment. I do appreciate your kindness.
None.
First reason: I'm not sure I could. They ten year old kids. Half of them are girls.
Second reason: I'm not sure I would. I'd rather a beating than be jailed in infamy.
Third reason: I'm not sure I should. There are an infinite number of kids. I'm going to get my ass kicked anyway. I choose getting my ass kicked by one ten year old.
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Hmm, I have no reference to judge my ability to fight 10 year olds so its hard to say.
A single adult punch might cause permanent brain damage or even death. They're really weak.
I honestly think it would be a tough fight for me against one average 10 year old, though there's a possibility of success if I just use my superior size to squash them. Two could definitely beat me -- I am significantly less fit than even I was at 10, and I was below average then too.
The key is rushing their point of entrance, the pole/slide, making each wave into 1 on 1 as much as possible so they are entering to you immediately knocking them out with 1 to 3 hits. The question is how long does your endurance last before you are too tired to deal knock out blows and keep up with the never ending flow. I think by 50 I would be fairly winded and possibly at a point of self-injury from striking and I would be relying on adrenaline to keep me going. My best guess would be 50-75 or 10 to 12 waves.
I'm with you on this one, except you also need to laugh maniacally after each act of extreme violence so that you really sell the fact that you're not messing around.
No dude they are PISSED at you. There's no going back for them.
You are cracking me up over here lol
I’m thinking probably 7ish. I bet I could take up to three simultaneously, so that makes for six total, and then I’d probably take anyone or two out of the group of four before being overwhelmed.
I feel like with a couple weeks of training you can double those numbers
Most of my Martial Arts training is designed against someone of similar size, so most of that is useless here. I think I could probably kick like 10 kids before I'd slow down. Maybe get to round 6 or 7..
I have no training whatsoever, and I think I can defeat anywhere between 0-2 ten year old children depending on their physical fitness and size, which do vary quite a bit. I don't really have a strategy for this, but since I am not good at throwing punches, there would be a lot of utilization of my surroundings - lots of pushing and throwing would be involved.
The above is written assuming that I would have no qualms about nor consequences from beating them.
I think this is a function of your size, your cardio, and their ferocity.
Kids are generally dumb and will surround you. Think concentric circles. The skinnier you are the less kids you’ll have around you. Additional kids will be buffered by each successive inner layer of kids. You will be able to reach at least layer 2 but layer 2 will not be able to reach you.
If they learn to crawl over and under and swarm you then bets are off, but if they are just lining up to attack you then my assertion stands.
Cardio is what will keep you going. 10 year olds will out-cardio you, so it’s not about out-pacing them, it’s simply a way of gauging how long you’ll last. If you Thermopylae’d them and funnelled them into a choke point, there are only so many push kicks you can do until you are spent.
Lastly, if they are regular kids then as others have said it won’t take much to keep them at bay and incapacitate them. But if there are any crazies or biters in the mix then you will have to out-crazy them.
Eye gouges, groin strikes and weapons of opportunity are your force multipliers.
I could probably get to round 15 before I just gave up and let the little ankle biting rug rats have their way with me. The whole fight was probably over enabling wifi or their Screen Time or something like that anyways.
You read my mind
Don't let these other pansies deter you. I'm a parent. Kids can be a-holes. Give 'em a good beatdown. :D
Can we please not use "pansy" as an insult around here? As a gay man who's been called "pansy" too many times, it's not exactly what I'd like to see here on Tildes.
Have you seen the video of the ring bearer kid just going ham on some bubbles?
Yeah, at my age, I can't compete with that energy level. My best bet would be to flee.
I think I'm gonna get the shit beaten out of me by a group of 10-year-olds.
I'm a total pacifist. I have had times in my adult life where someone has physically assaulted me, and I don't fight back. I stand my ground. I talk. I even shout. But I don't counter-attack. And, so far, this has served me well.
I once got out of being mugged by doing this. They get so confused when you don't do "fight or flight". They know how to respond if you fight back or run away: fight harder or chase you. That's easy. However, when you just stand your ground and calmly say "no, I won't give you my wallet or car keys"... it confuses the fuck out of them. :D
Sometimes... I even walk into groups where violence is happening, and be non-violent. For example: I once saw a group of about 4 or 5 teenaged boys (16-19yo?) physically harassing a security officer in a shopping mall. I strode right into the centre of the action, used my biggest "project to the back of a 600-seat theatre" voice on them, and got them to walk away. (For context: I am a very ordinary, average-looking, slightly chubby, middle-aged man. It's not like I'm 6 feet tall and built like a brick shithouse.)
My friends berate me when I demonstrate this behaviour, or tell them about it after the fact - but I keep doing it. I don't even think about it. It's almost instinctive for me to: a) be non-violent; b) walk into trouble.
That's my context. That's the "me" that's facing your swarm of 10-year-old children: totally non-violent but not easily intimidated.
In your scenario: if they're just 10-year-old children, that non-violent streak in me is going to get kicked into hyperdrive... "Don't hit children!"
So, I'm gonna get the shit beaten out of me.
Or I'll find some way to intimidate them verbally, or talk them down from their anger. I've done this before.
Hmm I see you demonstrated self restraint irl and would actually not fight the children. This was actually a test and you won. You are now part of their group and are forced to continue the game against other people. You slide down the pole and down the slide with the other children, and you are the leader of them. The rest is up to you. Good luck on your conquest!
But I wouldn't. I wouldn't slide down the pole to attack other victims. I won't play your game. :)
Why do you think about this? What is the background of this question?
I was eating at an Italian place, may have been the food.
This isn't far off from raiding a halfling settlement in a DnD game type scenario. It's just role playing yourself.
It's a pretty popular question.
Today's "youths" (shout-out to Schmitty) are not to be "truffled" with. They'd likely have me rocking back and forth in the fetal position while crying on the floor after the first harsh truth they decided to deal me. "FINISH HIM!" /Mortal Kombat: The Spoken Word Edition.
To make this post kinder, I would say we could think of the situation as fighting against Androids simulating the strength endurance, defense, etc... Of 10 year olds. These Androids, however, look robotic, as not to look like humans kids.
Do motor vehicles count as weapons?
If yes, then 5.
If no, then all of them.
By defeat, in this scenario does this mean killing or use of extreme force is acceptable? If so, I would think holding back would case me to exert more energy.
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Oh hell, no. I've seen that Game of Thrones episode. Pass.