How many five year olds could you take?
Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 7:52 pm
This was asked in another forum i frequent, and I'm taking it word for word:
Rules:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
- The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
Been having this stupid fucking debate with some friends and the answers vary wildly from 5 to 80. I am of the opinion that I could take around 40, no matter how well trained they are you can still run faster than them. My plan would be to run away to the other side of the room, wait for them to chase after me and kick 3 or 4 in the head. When they start to swarm, I run away again and repeat. If they managed to grab onto my legs so I couldn't run away I would start punching them in the top of the head or even banging heads together. I don't see how they could stop a kick to the head, and I can't imagine what someone would train them to do.
Rules:
- You are in an enclosed area, roughly the size of a basketball court. There are no foreign objects.
- You are not allowed to touch a wall.
- When you are knocked unconscious, you lose. When they are all knocked unconscious, they lose. Once a kid is knocked unconscious, that kid is "out."
- I (or someone else intent on seeing to it you fail) get to choose the kids from a pool that is twice the size of your magic number. The pool will be 50/50 in terms of gender and will have no discernable abnormalities in terms of demographics, other than they are all healthy Americans.
- The kids receive one day of training from hand-to-hand combat experts who will train them specifically to team up to take down one adult. You will receive one hour of "counter-tactics" training.
- There is no protective padding for any combatant other than the standard-issue cup.
- The kids are motivated enough to not get scared, regardless of the bloodshed. Even the very last one will give it his/her best to take you down.
Been having this stupid fucking debate with some friends and the answers vary wildly from 5 to 80. I am of the opinion that I could take around 40, no matter how well trained they are you can still run faster than them. My plan would be to run away to the other side of the room, wait for them to chase after me and kick 3 or 4 in the head. When they start to swarm, I run away again and repeat. If they managed to grab onto my legs so I couldn't run away I would start punching them in the top of the head or even banging heads together. I don't see how they could stop a kick to the head, and I can't imagine what someone would train them to do.