# Martial Artist fighting multiple untrained opponents

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 5, 2006, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409 "2006-10-05T17:56:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409/21 "2006-10-06T18:44:55Z")

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I think most of your top martial artists would easily succumb to an average-sized untrained opponent - if that opponent were dropped without warning on the martial artist’s head from a sufficient height! :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409/22 "2006-10-06T19:40:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Dinsdale]  
I think most of your top martial artists would easily succumb to an average-sized untrained opponent - if that opponent were dropped without warning on the martial artist’s head from a sufficient height! :rolleyes:  
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:dubious:

Not Chuck Liddell. 😉

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**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409/23 "2006-10-06T19:46:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Dinsdale]  
I think most of your top martial artists would easily succumb to an average-sized untrained opponent - if that opponent were dropped without warning on the martial artist’s head from a sufficient height! :rolleyes:  
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Well you know … you jest … but what if a decent number of attackers (I don’t know … maybe 6-8) could work together to get one of their own high in the air somehow? Like dropping down from 12 feet onto the MA? It would be difficult to deliver a single knockout blow to someone coming in from so high.

I don’t guess average guys could pull off the Cirque de Soleil maneuvers, though.

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/martial-artist-fighting-multiple-untrained-opponents/375409/24 "2006-10-06T19:54:50Z")

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[QUOTE=don’t ask]  
The presiding judge dismissed the charges on the basis that only hitting each guy once indicated a great deal of restraint.  
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**Snigger** 😃

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