Stop. You’re Bleeding Newsletter

Stop. You're Bleeding

Newsletter - 2025

When I see fights at sporting events, I assume that alcohol is involved.

When alcohol is involved, I assume that people morph into superhuman versions of themselves, like Thanos slipping into a fully-stoned Infinity Gauntlett and closing his fist menacingly in the rage-inducing comfort of its lavender upholstery.

They change like Altered Beast, into the the coolest possible 16 bit caricature of a vicious creature...

..in their imaginations, obviously.

Most drunk people forget the part where they're out of breath after walking up the stairs to get to the urinals.

They block out their desperate need for air as it's replaced with the desperate need to shroud their junk in the absence of privacy barriers.

Nevertheless, I found this video of a young man trying to slip punches in a stadium, and I did find it entertaining.

There's something about wearing a wife beater three sizes too small that will always make me root against you... even if you're honorably attempting to dodge punches for the glory of the crowd.

I am not above disliking people for petty reasons, and I never will be.

The truth is, that kid probably has pretty good head movement in a normal gym scenario; his initial slip pattern managed to effectively dodge the first two attacks, thus inflating his confidence to an even-more-obnoxious level.

But then his opponent cut off his escape route... and suddenly moving 'back' meant sitting in the chairs inconveniently behind him.

There's a few massive benefits to being able to back up during the slip game:

1. Your opponent has to step in order to punch you. That gives you more stuff to 'read' and more time to react to punches.

2. Most people can't move forward and punch at the same time. So, their combinations stop the moment you get out of range.

As soon as that smedium wife-beater hit the back of those chairs, it was bound to need a little special laundry attention.

The punches didn't need to stop.
At that range, it's just tough to react.

If there's a moral to this email, it's that head movement isn't impressive when you're bleeding all over your extremely deliberate all-white outfit.

But hey, did you catch the best slip in this entire fight at the 23 second mark???

Take another look... you might have missed a RIDICULOUSLY good U-Slip in response to a right hand thrown from above.

Sometimes, you just don't know who you're asking to punch you in the mouth... but I have a limit of one moral per email and the one about bleeding on your clothes is more important.

-Trav

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