How to Defeat 100 Opponents

I recall watching the movie Batman Begins where Bruce Wayne is having a conversation with Henri Ducard, his future Martial Arts instructor:

“You know how to fight six men. We can teach you how to engage six hundred.”

You might have seen the seminars where the Sensei fights 4 or 5 students at one time. Most of the time it’s so fake you can see the student fly in the air without the instructor touching them.

Maybe you heard on the news - one person was assaulted by a gang. So, to get back to the title of this article, “How do you defeat 100 opponents at once?” Drum roll please…….

RUN!!!

Okay, this may not be the super ninja tactic you wanted to read about, but hold your judgment off until you finish the article.

If you are facing 100 people intent on attacking you, your chances of survival is so low it’s nearly zero.  Even if they engage you one at a time, eventually your stamina will give.  There are just too many opponents for you to handle.

Image this for a moment, you are in a good shape and you cross train in many different areas of fitness….

So you run and they follow.  Maybe after 500 meters you separate the pack and only 50 are able follow you on foot.  Now it’s 1 verse 50. You just defeated 50% of your opponents.

You run to a river and swim across it.  During this swim half their numbers either give up or are not strong enough to follow.  Now it is 1 verse 25.

You reach the other side of the river and find yourself facing a couple of fences which are 4 meters high.  Since you’ve trained in Parkour Urban Ninja Freestyle running, this is no problem for you.  You hop over the fences easily.  Your attackers are either too tired or not skilled enough to follow.  It is now 1 verse 5.

So far you’ve drastically increased your chance of survival without even throwing a punch.  Where you had a zero percent chance of survival before, your situation is starting to look pretty good.

Still, 1 verse 5 is not quite the odds you’d prefer.  So you take the race to the city weaving through traffic, moving through obstacles, crawling under bridges and over walls until you look behind you and only see one person – a banged up and tired assailant giving chase.

You turn around and see the one attacker left is near exhaustion.  You pass a corner to get out of sight and either disappear or wait to take him out quickly and quietly.

Congratulations, you’ve just defeated 100 opponents!  Bruce Wayne who…

Photo Credits: kevindooley

Originally posted 2010-04-15 03:09:15.

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