Why do people need to take there shirts off when they street Fight

**OiScout** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 1:57pm

Originally Posted by Mannetosen

Shirts will give their opponent something to grab on to, and a lot of free leverage if they decide to pull and punch. That's just my two cents, though.

Oh, and the whole hockey-fighting thingie of using it to control your opponent.

You'd think someone would get the idea to attack while you're taking your shirt off.

**Uglybugly** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 2:12pm

Originally Posted by OiScout

You'd think someone would get the idea to attack while you're taking your shirt off.

that would be a winner.

**thorthe power** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 2:18pm

I do it with the hopes that my opponent, upon viewing my beer belly will underestimate me, thereby allowing me to take the initiative and get the first strike while they are consumed with laughter....

**Holy Moment** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 2:20pm

we get issued elastic ties for exactly this reason because in their veiw the biggest danger we face is to get choked out by a tie.

I had to read this twice because I thought you wrote electric ties. That strikes me as something the Joker would wear.

**alex** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 2:25pm

most of the shirts i go out in are worth 200-300 dollars, so yeah id take it off nicely fold it and give it to a close friend before i engaged in muh street duel.

**Bad Apple** · Posted On: 3/12/2010 2:44pm

When I was a kid growing up in Lynn, Mass it would be a common sight seeing people remove their shoes before a fight. Kicking someone barefoot was considered simple assault and battery. Kicking someone with shoes on was assault with a deadly weapon.

Removing your shoes told your opponent (and the gathering crowd) : "Yeah, I'm planning on kicking you and yeah, I know I'll likely get arrested for it later." Sort of an example or bluff that this isn't your first dance.

Removing a shirt just seemed obvious for reasons already posted.