If a small size person with very high kung fu or martial art skill fights with someone bigger size and very strong but with no martial art skill,who will win?
Depends on those persons,there is no truth on this one.
THOUGH.I would lay my money on kung-fu guy because even though size may matter,we all do have same nerves,joints,pressure points and vulnerable areas,no matter how big or strong we are.
My money would be on the smaller guy.Reason being im a small guy who can fight and i have fought people bigger than me and beat their a$$'s.size dosent matter as much as people would like to think.
there are two things that come into play,
- conditioning,fitness is the bodies ability to react to demands
made above routine tasks.
2.technology,your daily training,that leads to natural, automatic,
response.
you are only as good as your last work out.
a smaller person has less room for error against a bigger opponent but, i`ll take the one who is in training.
size dosent matter as much as people would like to think.
Wrong! Size does matter. A common myth is that MA will level the playing feild but it just isn’t so. All things equal expect the bigger stronger guy to win.
The big factor would be experience. The guy who eat sleeps and breathes MA but NEVER been in a fight would more an likely lose to a guy who has no formal training but has had several fights.
Any fighter can take out, any other fighter, on any given day.
Think of it as gambling. There is always a risk. Granted that if you train in some type of fighting art it will give you a higher percentage, no matter how good you are, there is always the risk. Even if you are world-class fighter, some nobody could take you out, if luck is on their side.
All size does is give you a greater potential to create damage. Now skill may equal that percentage, but even 99 to 1 there is always at one percent.
That is why what I am facing an opponent, I must believe its life or death. ( You never know who your faceing) if my life is online (or someone who I love, is in danger.) I will take the chance. I will give everything I have, my entire potential to get the highest percentage possible. And so far it has been enough.
I train very hard to get the highest percentage possible. Hoping and praying that I do not ever need to take such a gamble again.
A motto I learned in the military was: To train for the worst possible situation, in this way the worst thing the enemy can do, is to disappoint you.
Happy new year! C.A.G.
there are no absolutes,size and luck matter,
everything matters,
remember,
every dog has his day,
don`t under estimate any one.
the strongest of all warriors are these two,time and patience.
leo tolstoy
Um
Fight experience counts for a lot. You sh!t yourself - you’re meat.
your girlfriend lied; size does matter
With all factors being equal, the bigger fighter will win. Quality MA training will make a huge difference and its tough to compare fighters in the real world because of so many variable.
So think of it in this hypothetical scenereo: If you were able to clone yourself or a fighter you know and somehow this clone had the exact experience and skill of the original, and then you were to increase the size of the clone by 25% or even 50%, who would win, the clone or the original? Think of fighting that exact copy that was bigger, he would stomp you.
i know its a weird comparo, but a scenero like that is easier for me to visualize apples to apples…
If the small guy is good, then he will win.
If the small guy is good, then he will win.
“If the small guy is good, then he will win.”
But the skill must go up much higher. To overcome strength and size you need to be better, as that difference gets bigger you need to be even better.
Speed matters
Here’s another factor that could change the demensions of this theoretical fight. Speed and skill would hand the fight to the smaller man.
Hunting and pecking at the larger opponent would be the tatic to use. The smaller man’s skill and speed could be fully utilized in this manner, frustrating his opponent, not allowing the use of the big man’s size and strength.
That is what martial skill is for. Not only do you know how to punch, but also where, when , and why you use it.
I say this as a relatively bigger man; hovering around the 215lb mark. Dealing with superior speed can be baffling when my opponents know how to use it.
Mantis,
I am 220lbs 6’ I am VERY fast. Speed is good but it needs power to go with it. It does little to hit your opponent quickly if the blows have litte effect. And generally big guys have more mass to absord shock.
Hi guys
let me put in my two cents.
Yes it is true, that the bigger person will have more kinetic energy to use, an in normal situations his mass will absorb more damage. But that is just a general rule.
David took down Goliath with one small stone. And if small man knows how to punch or kick well, (and not to mention if he may have a weapon.) and is able to hit his target. The fight will be over. The goal for self defense, should be to take the opponent out as quickly as possible. We are talking about a fight, not sparring, we are also talking about seconds, not rounds.
I personally have seen a small woman, not down (and out) a man (a very large man) with one punch. And if she had hit him in the throte she could have easily killed him.
My friends do not compare apples and oranges. Self defense is real-life, and sparring is just a game. Think about it, a pen or a knife, a gun or a broken bottle it makes very little difference, you could be dead, in just a few seconds.
C.A.G.
IMHO the difference only matters if it is GREAT.
If it’s the difference between 5’11 and 6’2 for e.g, then skill and weaponry (as Curtis said) will be the deciding factors.
Weapoary is usually THE decision maker, but if you’re fighting a GrandMaster, I doubt the possesion of an AK47 would win you the fight. There are some people out there who’s skill is phenomenal, I’m not talking about the basics of knowing where to hit etc, or having a good sidekick, I’m talking about reactions quicker than you can think.
Then you will lose, badly.
DelicateSound please dont fool your self.
Even a master can die. and wepons are verry dangerious.
Even Bruce Lee caried a gun before he died,(now thats two facts to look at. The proof of weponary, and even a master can die.) Now dont read more into it than what I just said.
There are no Suppermen! And no matter how skilled you are, you will always be human. (and humans do make mistakes!)
Knowing this to be true. Train hard,and prepair for the worst,in this way, the worst may never happen.
TO BE FORWARNED IS TO BE FORARMED.
HAVE A GOOD DAY!!! C.A.G. 
Asia
I was speaking generalities. There are exception to every rule. You have a great gift being larger and fast. Mass x Speed = Power.
Also, I was make the assumption that the smaller guy knows how to deliver a blow (being skilled) and the bigger guy doesn’t (being unskilled).
Thank you for your reply.
Dat be funny,little guys come to good old leech and try to hurt me,I juz kill the funny little guys:D Now the point is that people like to think that size DOESN´T matter,like"oh ****,that guy knows karate!".Now datz bullshait.Most of the time.Maybe.
The one that stops fighting last.