As I grew older and more experienced I have realized that breaking an arm is very serious and should only be used in truly dire situations where one is actually defending oneself or another.
We in AKBAN have a new article called Levels of Violence that better gets my point across.
http://www.akban.org/wiki/Levels_of_viol...
There is a time to use it and a time not to. Hearing your story, you are in no place, right, etc, to use an armbar to break an arm. It's rather violent and stays with you especially if you continue to fight after you break the arm to "finish" etc.
In your situation yes, it would be too serious and be one of the worst things you can do.
I would only inflict that kind of injury on someone if it was a pretty serious situation, and I had no other choice. This is not a serious situation at all. This is a scuffle between two guys that are mad at each other (and it seems that you are kids). Breaking someone's arm should not even be in the consideration of any little, anger induced fight like this. It's no ordinary cut or bruise, it requires medical attention, medical bills (which your family would have to pay), and legal action is likely to be taken against you and your parents.
The best possible thing you can do is avoid fighting. This is not worth the trouble that it is going to bring. It would be a horrible decision to fight, and who cares if he want to. be smart and don't fight.
Now go forth, and avoid fighting.
What does this have to do with martial arts?
Yes martial arts are fighting arts, but they're also about respect, and not fighting when you can avoid it.
When you get to the point of serious physical harm, legal and civil actions can be taken. Based on your question I'm guessing you're under 18. If so did you know that your actions can seriously impact your parents as they're responsible for you? And in some places the fact that you posted here could mean that you preplanned harming the other guy which could mean that they'd not only be responsible for any medical bills and pain and suffering, but you could be charged with assault, and possibly tried as an adult.
My suggestion is you find someone who is going to teach you to avoid fighting unless it's a last resort.
U shld try to avoid the fight but if there's no choice break the boy
I'm not really much of a fighter. It takes me a lot to get angry, but I have a bad temper. I had a fight with this boy, and since this was my first fight I was a little nervous. I knew I was stronger and I have mma under my belt, so I kept the fight on the ground. I can throw and take a punch, but I'm more comfortable grappling. I somehow got the boy into an Armbar, like I said I'm stronger than the boy and have a lot of experience with submissions.. Especially the armbar. But I kept the arm pinned with my left hand and hammer fisted him with my stronger hand. Now the boy wants to fight again, would it be a bad decision, should I find myself in a similar decision to take more action. As in, I know I Could of snapped his arm. Is this the worst thing I could do?
