I'm a mild follower of mma and fighting sports. But everytime I see Bas Rutten, he puts a big grin on my face. What a cool guy, a class act and a proper man.
Everytime a bully (usually a bigger kid) tried to pick on me or fight me I always stood up to them and fought back. I was terrified as I was doing it but I couldn't help it, I just had to fight back. As a result I wasn't bullied and as I got older I had no problems. I'm not tough, I'm not a fighter but there was just something inside me that made me push back even if I was scared.
Make the cost to high for them to bother! Even those idiots can do that math. They will always take the path of least resistance because they have not spine.
The bully was standing there in line for the lunch, and I was like “Hey, NEEERD! Gimme ur lunch money!”, and then I exploded his nose like a tomato under my knuckle!
Just wanna say that back in high school my buddies and I used the lines from that Bas barfight instructional video for just about every situation you can imagine.
The biggest problem is workplace bullies. They’re always sissies that think their company protects them. And when you challenge them to a fight, they back down. But inevitably you pretty much have to quit because of the tension and they run to HR. It’s a struggle in life to find a company with all cool people. Usually people that grew up. Fighting are the most respectful. Now we have to work with these workplace tough guys sissies
I had the same experiences. They talk like they're going to bring the roof down..but practically they are nothing...they do sour the workplace environment. Not much is done by management since " no actual fight had happened " .
@@SirChivalRegal that’s my biggest challenge in life is to find a company with cool people. All I can do for my life now is check those people quick within five minutes of them being disrespectful. If they want to keep it up, then I can keep it up as well. fortunately most people are good, but it only takes one or two people to bring that adrenaline pumping.
@@Stephen-lt1tp yeah. I had 25 people in my department. Yet one person alone , a really toxic guy would rile many of us up." The company umbrella would act like a shield , similar I assume to a bunch of bystanders ready to pull the " aggressor " away in confrontation in a crowd. The " let go of me!" , excuse. One guy came up to me, regarding the toxic collegue and said he would quit his job , but vowed to break all of that guys teeth before he left. ( he didn't do either, but his feeling were such)I left myself after two years.
@@SirChivalRegal if that were me now, I would ask that guy to go to lunch with me one on one and tell them exactly how I feel. I’ve learned you really have to isolate these people away from the crowd. Never let them get over on anybody more than two or three times. Nip it in the bud. But like I mentioned after it’s just tension and if they don’t quit, I ultimately end up leaving just cause I still have to look at their ugly face every day. We can choose our friends, but we can’t choose our family or coworkers
If anyone Doesn't like Bas. They should have their head examined. He's as genuine,humble&down to earth as a human being can be. As a fighter. He's a legend. As a human being he's a super-Legend.~ Respects Sir.
Great discussion. A negative untruth always seems to travel fast, and is the one thing that gets focused on in the midst of many good things, sticks like super glue, and unless you have absolute proof to the contrary, such as recording, is impossible to convince people otherwise, and becomes your whole reputation. When I was in computer customer service, where we had customer survey cards that would be returned, there was a saying for this: “One 'Aw Shit' Wipes out a Thousand 'Attaboys'."
Bullying is fundamental to growing up. To finding self assurance and where you stand when confronted with static in your life. I was bullied a lot in 6th grade till one day I stood up for myself. Everytime after that I stood up for myself and if some threw the first punch I ended it after that. I threw a kid down a flight of stairs once. No one messed with me after that. I was a popular kid by the time I was in 9th grade. I found my confidence and self respect. Then others respected me. That lesson changed my life.
It's such a normal thing we don't even have a word for it in my language. Took me a while to wrap my head around the concept when I was learning English. I was viciously bullied as a kid, but I just saw it as dicks acting like dicks, nothing strange.
@@dickbison True, the word came around when I was in my teens and they were English words like "mobbing", "bullying". We didn't have words, I mean we did but they translate more to stuff like "teasing"/"hazing".
I’m 42, more than 30 years in martial arts, I was bullied in middle school, actually because I was taking karate lessons instead of playing soccer and their argument was always “I can beat you even without karate”. But that helped me when I was ambushed at the town fair and I knocked out one of the bullies. They stopped making fun of me. I didn’t even wanted to go to that damn fair…
See this happens to everyone, every race, creed and color but if he was black the narrative would be that he was picked on because he was black. That's not the way it is. Every race is targeted, stop playing the race card when it happens to blatts.
My dad taught me to box and always said, “A bully wants a victim not a world title fight. Give him the title fight. Don’t think about anything else but inflicting as much pain on him as possible. Win or lose, you won’t have to fight him twice because HE won’t want it…and that’s what you want.”
I was just a kid and pre-teen when I took care of bullies, but no doubt, violence solved the issues, and quickly at that, contrary to the current stupid trend. Like if going to a teacher, parent, etc. will solve this. At that age, the "violence" is not that dangerous at all. No weapons, no punching power really so hardly ever any KOs just some minor pain and bloody noses.
Until that kid steals his dads gun and shoots you in your ass for embarassing him and "ruining his life". Happened at my school, so when I trained, I never wanted to resort to violence (only last resort), because you might be a better fighter, but you never know how far somebody else is willing to go to "win"
That's just why I feel kids should be allowed to fight. Plus they learn to pick themselves up & face conflict. Then when they're big enough to really hurt ppl, hopefully they won't want to, because they know it could go either way.
I,m dutch like bas . And we learned to fight for your place on the playground . If you got bullied you knew you couldn't come home crying , yes you could but no one had any sympathy for you . It was like this ...ok who did what to you and why ? My excuse Didn't matter ,3 boys attacked me no reason ,,he was much bigger I didn't do anything wrong .. Yeah right ... do you know where they are now ? Euh yes.. OK go back ,on your way you put some rocks in your pockets look for a big stick Walk towards them and hit the first one with that stick .. and the rocks ? That's back up mostly you don't need them ,the rest of them got the message. . Best advice ever ..you only need it once ..!lol
Who are you trying to impress? What you describe is not the situation for many kids today. It is a tougher world for them now than before. Deck your bully and expect to be harrassed irl and on the social medias and worse, for a long time. You can expect to be moved from the school and be reprimanded, while the bully goes free. But of course, YOU would be such a tough kid today that the bullies wouldn't dare do that to you. You ignorant dingo.
Dutchman here.....exactly the same as described. I used to be too soft, while being bigger than most my age.....guess it was due to that, I was tall and most figured I was older than how I looked and so didn't behave that way. Anyway, at one point my father was done when I came at the door again crying and told me to get a big piece of wood and club the guys bullying me.......and I did. Thankfully not one of those guys directly but one of their bikes, which they jumped off and ran when I went at them in berserker mode. The bike took serious damage. So my father got a visit from another father, whom agreed I should man up, both had a good laugh, damages covered by insurance, all good......after that those other kids became neighbourhood friends I played with. When I was 12 I noticed myself I had to be careful hitting people, as not to permanently damage them. Just like Bas my parents moved, from a small town closer to Amsterdam and being the new kid they will try you......I waited for the right guy to challenge me, beat him into total oblivion....a construction worker had to pull me off him as the whole school watched this happen. Never ever had any problem with people after that, I now was that guy you better not messed with.......great. I was.....am, a real big 6f6 guy, shy and silent type.....grew a bit more social over time, but deep inside I'm that same kid......leave me alone and things will be fine, push me and you'll be in a world of pain. Never needed any martial arts for that and I have fought guys like that and with guys like that.....the latter who always told me they wouldn't like to face me, the former learned that the hard way. 🤣
I’m 46 American white man from Oklahoma it’s the same here my dad would be like who was it do you know where he lives so we drive over there and fight in the front yard my dad was pretty rough so at 10 I had to fight a 12 year old untill he quit
I learned how to deal with bullies in like 4th grade, turn around punch them in the nose as hard as you can.. and they leave you alone. I had to pop 3-4 bullies throughout school and it stops them. in 2023 we call them trans or non binary, they should get the same treatment.
Problem is most don't realize some bullies like to fight, do so regularly, and become very good at it. Doesn't mean you don't stand, you do. Just prepare to lose and keep standing, that is the mentality to learn.
I wonder if bullies should ever be thanked. Bas was very successful because of them, so was Tyson. Without these awful cowards, there wouldn't be the brave fighters that overcame them.
We had a healthy mixed group of friends- white, Mexican, black- and everyone made fun of each other. Now everyone is sensitive and we can't have any fun.
I was a small kid. Picked on a lot. Lived in a tent at a KOA for a few years. We were poor. So I learned early, I had to fight back. Luckily I was quick and able to pop a nose at 13. So I only had to fight 1-3 times a year...some bully would pick on my friends, not me. I would not let that happen while before high school. In high school the fighting went down by a huge factor as the end was worse. Maybe 6-7 fights the whole time. Got my first knock out. Funny. In the movies the guy fly's backwards. Not evern close. Dude went down like wet rag. bluuump. I'm old now, 50's. Still can't stand them fk's. When i see it professionally today, I'll assist the person with advise and perhaps some backup. Although those teens and twenties...that was fun. I dont' remember the pain, I lost a few for sure.(hint for child psychologist, mind fucking only works until the kid figures it out, but basic pain lesson can keep a kid out of jail and physical pain cannot be recalled. Only the lesson of "the world doesn't care what you think is right...THIS is right and you were wrong stays forever. Not abuse but training) But at least I stood up for what was right. by the way, my parents were wonderful. Only got spanked twice. Once for hitting my younger sister and once for stealing. Both before 7 years old. I learned to fight because I had no choice, bullies would try and take anything I had.
so amazing... so amazing that you think anyopne else is remotely interested in YOUR story, we're truly not. This video is not all about Bug get over yourself.
@@slowery43 I've seen many person , who lives by , It's not enough I succeed, others must fail. Most of us adults who live by helping others , refer to the prior types as Losers. Well played Hoagers.
I was also bullied at school just because I was a quiet type Person. I Tell you what, us bullied guys are Killer machines. Getting bullied make us tough and strong. I was never a weak guy, just quiet. It didnt take long for them to give Respekt. Any time I lost patience I threw Bullies down stairs or punched them into the face. Jesus they were surprised. The thing is I am a very humble guy, people often expect you to be weak. In my youth I started jiu jitsu and kickboxing, started to lift weights. I had a few street Fights and sent assholes to hospital. By the way I am dutch
Nah. I spot bullied kids all the time as grown ups. Bullied kids over-compensate later on .. and pretend to be tough. But they're not. Cowards die a thousand deaths.
@@daraquinn5260 probably you have those type of bullied ones as well. Depends on how they process the whole shit. Basically all you need to realize is, that bullies are a bunch of home abused, retards or neglected attention seekers. Believe me. One reason for bullies is envy. Lol so you wanna tell me Bas rutten is a coward or overreacting???? Come on chill. I know so many good fighters or successfull Business people, who had bullied experience before
The problem now is not JUST kids are being taught to not deal with bullies themselves but the term bullying is now misused (along side so many other words) and the punishments are occurring for such trivial disputes but the laws are abused and it's labelled as bullying.
When back into a corner, bullied on a daily basis is the only way you know what you are made of. Power perceived is power achieved, you have to fight in life period.
Interesting point about people wanting to believe lies. At some point in time I had to proof that I was sane, to a psychiator who thought and was told otherwise. When starting at that point there is absolutely nothing you could say or do that proves your sanity. Everything wil simply get explained as a "devious manipulating plot" or otherwise "doing good out of guilt". I like to share these moments here, in the comments. Because thats where I was whenever I was in a bad state. And that 0.1% chance my typing helps someone makes it worth doing it.
For the record: Holland has never been "a socialist country", thank God. We have a social policy with regards to certain things, like good affordable medical care and high taxes.
Also: it's getting woke in the Netherlands too. I agree we are not as hung up on race as the US, but it's not as chill as it used to be (back in the day we simply didn't care at all).
I was'nt that brave as a kid but i ended up doing some Judo that i enjoyed, a couple of instances at school where i did a couple of throws terminated the whole situation .All boys and girls should learn some self defense .
Take Kwon Do... The king of McDojos in the west with Kung Fu as his queen. I know that pain... I looked for kicknoxing a few years after I moved to MD. Most were Tae Kwon Do. I eventually took boxing then as I moved states after MMA exploded. I jumped intp that myself.
@@dickbison You're probably right, but TKD is a great foundation for other sports like Muay Thai and kickboxing. I am still deadly with kicks, flexible and effective even after 2 decades of not doing TKD anymore.
My little sister Lisa had to mummified for a few years, at various times. The itching, scabbing, and expressed discomfort was obviously tough for her to deal with as a child, but because of familial love, it was a family affair. There were the creams, therapeutic baths, and the cloth wrappings....we are only 2.5 years apart and still very close; coincidentally, today, 3-29, is her birthday.
