On the surface, it's pretty funny and I laughed at the imagery, but there is a more serious side to this.
Assuming it's all true, this guy was extremely lucky. A baboon and even a chimpanzee can easily kill a grown man without much effort. He also seem to be ignorant of what really happened. When the biggest baboon (the Alpha male) walked up and stopped at 15 feet away, he wasn't just inspecting the man - he was issuing a challenge. If the guy had just looked down and slow back away, he would had diffused the situation. Apparently, the man did not understand the concept of avoiding confrontation.
Do the guys I train with really count? I call one of them an albino gorilla...
Other than that not really. I had an unfortunate disagreement with a donkey that tried to take my leg off but pulling my leg away from it's teeth and kicking it in the mouth hardly count as martial arts.
I wonder how baboons react to playing dead? Would they lose interest like a bear or would they decide to inspect the dead person?
Does playfully pushing off a dog who wants to jump up and play count? LOL I have neighbors and family who have large playful dogs. A push of their head to the side throws off their balance. They have one thing in mind - to play. It is their practice for hunt. It is ominous how fast they can get up and play harder.
But, these playful dogs - a doberman, two rottweilers, a lab, and a german shepard - all are very large dogs. And friendly. It does not take much to imagine what they would be like if they were trained to kill or were rabid. Humans high on PCP or are in some psychosis are scary - but pale to what dogs and other animals can do. An attacking animal usually does so out of survival - or the perceived need for survival.
Rabidity, feral, fear, protection of young, and hunger are fearsome motivators for animals to fight.
No, I have never really used martial arts or any fighting skill against an animal, nor have I ever trained to. I doubt any training I do would be adequate against an animal with the instinct to kill me would be effective without a weapon.
We humans have superior weapons against animals, which is intelligence - not brawn. Trying to use martial arts would be tantamount to using brawn.
Some things, like guns and sprays, are not always effective against an animal, they have no fear of weapons because usually, they've never seen them. Or they're trained to be more aggressive when they see them. Or they become aggressive because of... fear (from past experience).
As such, animals are perfect killing machines: they stop at nothing to get their prey, and usually fear nothing once their instincts kick in.
I threw a spear into the eye of a rino while yelling "THIS IS SPARTA". No I just watched 300.
I would use martial arts against the Samurai dogs Kokoro sends after me, but they're to weak so I don't even have too. Most fall for just throw a tennis ball anyways.
No not personally. But you should be prepared to. How awesome would it be to fight a bear? Of course, I love animals and wouldn't want to hurt them. But I'd rather live than be tore to shreds by baboons! If I were about to fight an animal, the first thing I would do is scream as loud as I can. That would scare the (BEEP) outta it because I have a very loud Kiai. Hopefully that would work. The next thing I would do is wait for it to attack then counter. I'd try to incapacitate it but not permanently injure it, with a bear maybe a kick to the knee? I wouldn't want to but I would defend myself.
The animal you are most likely to fight in the street is a dog. I would hate to fight one! But if it meant protecting me/my family/ my dog I would. Some dogs are giant Cliffords and I wouldn't want to go up against them, but a loud Kiai should scare them off. I would hate to have to kick them.
Despite everything I just said, God created man above beasts. If it comes down to a fight... then it is our God given right.
i dont even know why i read this from the titles it was an obvious troll. and baboons do not have claws. that being said one time a dog was attacking my cat i ran up and front kicked it in the side it lunged at me and after my arms getting torn up i choked it out. the owner was present the whole time and put it in the car while it was out and took it too the vet. everything was fine.
I've only used Kung Fu once on an animal. A squirrel.
Lol I've put a dog into a headlock after biting me. That mofo had it coming my finger hurt!
I also used martial arts against a monkey, but i lost. bcoz that monkey was exactly copying me.
This was one guy's story: " Krav Maga, Hapkido, and Escrima here. I was hiking by myself near Victoria Falls (Southern Africa) and got surrounded by a pack of baboons. Baboons, if you haven't had the pleasure of encountering one in person, are the size of large dogs with dog-sized mouths full of sharp teeth as well as four clawed arms. These baboons had my retreat cut off.
Biggest baboon ambles up, stops about fifteen feet away to inspect me, then charged.
Massive adrenaline rush. I can only compare it to the feeling I got jumping out of a plane. All the years of training went out the window. I heard myself screaming louder than I had in years and when the baboon got into range unleashed a straight front kick. Not this most sophisticated of techniques, but it connected and the next thing I knew it had backed off twenty feet and the rest of the baboon pack had vanished. Took a few minutes for the adrenaline to subside. I should note that none of my actions, including the primal scream, felt conscious or intentional."
This is the actual link. His is further at the bottom: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jlzi5/martial_artists_when_have_you_had_to_use_your/
Here's my question: Have you ever found yourself using MA on an animal?
Well, kids need to do something more productive than writing crap stories that gives them C-.
very confusing situation. research on the search engines. it could help!
It could had been true if it was written by me.
What's your question?
