Would you be embarrassed to get your ass kicked by a totally legally blind person?

Not if it was this guy

I assume having my ass kicked would be embarrassing, period.

I probably would too. The whole reason is because being blind is usually a considered very large handicap. If you had two people that were physically and mentally the same, but one was blind, I would not expect the blind person to win because most tasks are just harder to do when someone is blind. But losing to a blind person would also make me respect that person a lot more. I would think “Wow, that guy’s so good that he can beat me even though he’s blind.”

For that reason? Most likely not. Blind people may not be able to see, but they can still sense things and hear things.

Nope. Blind does not mean weak, inept, or helpless.

^^ Exactly.

If I was fist fighting, I would be embarrased to be so stupid in the first place.

Well, it depends what the competition is. There are some competitions where being blind is a very large handicap. When I was reading this question, I was thinking about the guy on Expedition Impossible, who trekked across deserts and climbed cliffs, navigated rivers, and was helpless when many of the challenges were visual challenges and had to rely on his team members. His team came in third place out of however many.

But of course there are things where being blind really doesn’t make a difference. A blind person could totally play board games, solve logic puzzles, lift weights, know 10 different languages, play the piano, etc.

But, it all depends on the competition.

^^ Good point.

Lack of sight can be an advantage, too. My Dad is blind and he’s told us this story about making a perfect square with a rope with other people who were blindfolded. His team ended up winning because he was used to making decisions without sight! haha

You can be legally blind and still be able to make out shapes at close distance. One of the instructors in my karate school is basically blind without his glasses, but I’ve seen him do impressive things even after they’ve been knocked off.

FYI people by ” getting your ass kicked ” I meant in a fight club style bare knuckle fist fight!

What if it’s like this epic blind samurai who can hear light? Man, don’t fuck with them.

Only if they were missing one or both arms.

@Sponge Yeah, I definitely took your question literally. Isn’t that a strength issue, though… not a sight issue?

Well, if it is a fist fight, being blind doesn’t matter if the guy is a lot stronger than you. And I don’t stand a chance to begin with.

@Adirondackwannabe Lol. XD

@AnonymousGirl Yeah…I mean, someone who can see loses a fight against an opponent that can also see…maybe it’s not just sight that’s involved. Never got into any fistfights though lol, hard to say.

I knew a guy that got his ass kicked by a guy on crutches. How bad is that. You take on a guy on crutches, which is pretty bad, but he kicks your ass.

I’d be embarrassed that I was fighting with a blind person.

@Adirondackwannabe I heard of this story on the news long ago. A girl who was nearly blind, and couldn’t see dick without her glasses had some guy try to rob her place. It was night time, she was sleeping. Someone broke in her house. She got scared and, speaking of samurais, she owned a real katana. When the intruder came close to her, she swung the sword frantically, and heard the guy being hurt. When he left, she turned on the lights and put on her glasses. There was a bit of blood on the floor lol. Robber got pwnd. :D

@chyna The secret to fighting a blind person is to have something you can throw to the side of them so they turn that way.

Never had my ass kicked yet. But you never know.

@Symbeline Anyone that gets close to anyone with a real katana is an idiot. Awesome weapon.

@Adirondackwannabe I don’t know if the guy knew she was holding it…either way, you’re right. I’d never bother someone with expertise in the wielding of a katana. I’d bother them even less if they didn’t know how to properly handle the weapon.

@Symbeline I’d just like to hold one once. I’ve only seen them in museum displays.

@Adirondackwannabe They are pretty cool, let me tell you.

@SavoirFaire Have you held one?

@Adirondackwannabe Yup. I study kenjutsu and one of the master instructors has an authentically forged katana. Most of us use cheaper blades for our practice, but he went all out. It’s quite impressive.

@I’m jealous.:)

I only have replicas of katanas…they look sweet, but they ain’t real. I’d like to check out a real one sometime, too.

@SavoirFaire Are katanas heavy?

@Symbeline Not really. They have to be light enough for fast drawing. I mean, this one had some heft to it, but it wasn’t like you had to lug the thing around. I imagine they vary, though. I’ve only held one truly authentic katana, so I’m hardly an expert.

After the blind guy kicked your ass… I’d kick your ass again for picking a fight with a blind guy.

@SavoirFaire I heard that when fighting with a katana, there’s a lot of wrist play involved, and how you really just use the tip of the sword, where it kind of bends off into a point, to damage someone. The rest of it is largely used for blocking and deflection. Is that true?

I can’t see how that would occur.

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies Why assume that the blind person has to be an enfeebled victim? A blind person once picked a fight with me. He even took a few swings at me with his cane. This happened in college when I disagreed with him during a discussion.

@Symbeline Depends on the style, but more or less true. The kissaki (last couple of inches on the blade) is the sharpest part of the sword and is typically what you want to use for standard strikes, but the whole blade can be used offensively when plan A doesn’t work out quite the way you wanted it to. Diagonal cuts and some passing attacks rely on basically dragging the whole sword through an opponent’s body.

You don’t watch much Kung Fu do you? The blind swordsman, the blind fighters, the five cripples, the list is endless. There are plenty of folks out there that are not only blind but also deaf and maybe missing a limb that could kick all of our asses at once.

Zatoichi didn’t need eyes to massacre entire gangs. ಠ_ಠ

@sinscriven He wasn’t actually blind though. He was so badass that he chose to live his whole life with his eyes closed.

@SavoirFaire Have you ever held a tashi?

@Adirondackwannabe Nope, never even seen a tachi in person (though some would quibble over just what makes the difference). The only authentically forged Japanese swords I’ve held are my master instructor’s katana and wakizashi. When I get the chance to do some traveling, I hope to see (and try) more.

@Symbeline That is true. Was his being sighted a known thing in the series, or was that a later revelation? I’ve only seen one of the movies so far.

@sinscriven Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve only ever seen the last movie they made some years back. If he was originally blind in all the other stuff ecxept this movie, some purists are probably pissed off lol.

I always wondered something: Could you really chop off someone’s head with one slash if you used enough force? I know a torso is too much, but an arm or leg might seem feasible?

@Blackberry You mean with a katana? Well in this thread, I just learned from @SavoirFaire the name for the sharpest part of the blade, the kissaki. I’ve heard that certain katanas, the ways the blades are made, can be ridiculously sharp. Especially ones geared towards styles that enforce one hit kills or, at least, severe injury…despite that, I think the kissaki is much too small to be able to actually lop off a head. Maybe you could with the rest of the blade, if it’s sharp enough.
I really don’t know, but it’s an interesting question. In order to decapitate a head in one clean shot, the implement would have to be really sharp, but you’d also have to be very fast, I’m assuming. I mean an axe could be sharp and the wielder could be strong, but in most case scenarios, the weapon would remain halfway lodged on the target. Maybe it isn’t light enough. A katana would probably be. I’m sure you could manage with a limb, and probably a head.
I mean technically, you can decapitate someone with it, if the person is still and you have all the time in the world to make it count. Like an execution, or the guy with the sword who lops off the head of the guy committing seppuku when he’s getting to be into way too much pain. You also have gravity on your side, as the weight of the weapon crashing down would do a lot of the work, as opposed to having to create your own momentum in a fight…In actual combat…so many rules would have to be met, as well as conditions needing to be exact along with the rules. And a bit of some fluking, perhaps?

Perhaps I’m over thinking something that’s actually easy to answer. @SavoirFaire do you know lol?

@Blackberry A tachi is a heavier broadsword then the Katana. It would do it.

@Adirondackwannabe Holy crap. I’m looking those up now, never heard of em before. They’re pretty long. O_O

@Symbeline I first came across one in the book The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore. You might like it, it’s got zombies attacking a church full of people during a christmas party. The tachi is one of the defenders weapons.

@Adirondackwannabe Holy fecal matter. I gotta read that lol.

Christopher Moore is totally off the wall. You would love him. That story also has a pot smoking constable, a guy with a fruit bat for a pet, and a warrior princess that’s schizo and uses the tachi. Check it out. he also likes vampires.

Man those are crazy ideas. Love it, I’m gonna see about getting a hold of this in the near future. Also I’m out of stuff to read, so this is gonna be cool.

Oh, and they kill Santa Claus with a shovel.

…what? Really…?

:D This sounds better and better by the minute lmao.

Yup. One of the most wacked books I’ve read. They killed Santa with a shovel because he threatened his ex with a gun. But they buried the body with the gun and when he comes back as a zombie it really bites them in the ass. If that doesn’t interest you I don’t know what will.

They killed Santa with a shovel because he threatened his ex with a gun.

Say whaaat?? Lmao! Don’t worry, my interest has been piqued, and quite, at that.

I think you’d really like his stuff. Plus you could get to know Chet the giant cat that belongs to a homeless guy, but gets turned into a vampire, plus Blue, the hooker that’s dyed her body blue.

@Sponge Now that I’ve totally hijacked your thread, back to blind people kicking our ass.

Now that I’ve totally hijacked your thread, back to blind people samurais kicking our ass.

Fixed amirite?

@Symbeline GA but we’re way past tapped out on lurve.

@Adirondackwannabe I noticed. XD

@Blackberry Yes, you could chop someone’s head off with one (properly executed) strike. The ritualized version of seppuku, for example, involves having an attendant (kaishakunin) decapitate the one committing suicide in order to minimize suffering after the requisite self-mutilation has occurred. There’s even a kata shared by most styles of kendo/kenjutsu in which you learn how to be an effective attendant.

It’s a little weird when you find out that’s what you’ve just learned to do.

@SavoirFaire What do you think it would look like? Would blood spray upwards or would it just flow out (why am I asking this…..?)?

@Blackberry While I guess I should be flattered that everyone considers me an expert on matters of death a destruction simply in virtue of having studied kenjutsu, I must confess—or perhaps emphatically clarify—that I have never decapitated anyone with a sword and hope never to do so.

That said, my understanding is that high pressure blood is a movie myth. While there will be some spurting as the heart continues to beat, there will be no geysers of blood coating the walls. Reality might actually be more disturbing than fantasy in this case, which is perhaps one advantage to being a blind samurai.

That’s right, I brought it back around to the topic in the end.