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	[quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]Fifty to sixty if I'm allowed to also kill/maim. If I got really really lucky and worked out heavily for months beforehand focusing solely on stamina I could maybe pull off the full hundred to one hundred and twenty (two times my magical number) but it would be fucking hard as hell. It's harder to keep pulling off exactly the right move the more tired you get. In any all-out fight against multiple opponents you will be utterly exhausted after five-ten minutes - I was a long distance runner back when I was 17-18 and constantly getting into fights. This is strictly for informational purposes relevant to this thread, and I really don't want to come off like I'm bragging (people will shout that I'm doing so no matter what), but I've been in a whole hell of a lot of fights. Some were against people with martial arts training, people with weapons, and some with multiple opponents (I've beaten four opponents of equal or greater height/weight/age simultaneously which is why I know about the five minutes). I have never lost a fight, which is a pretty good thing because some of them sincerely wanted to kill me. In this fuzzy photo from five years back you can make out the 3-layers of 25 stitches scar on my eyebrow where my sister's boyfriend got me with his 6" blade Bowie knife. There are five ways (that I am aware of) to easily kill someone barehanded and dozens of ways to permanently injure a limb (which would incapacitate) that would be pathetically easy to pull off against a five-year-old. Catching punches/kicks from anybody under ten is INCREDIBLY easy if you've any reflexes at all (I did it to nearly all of my brother's friends when they were ten - twist the wrist and when their arms are behind their backs you can do whatever you want to them). A simple pull of an arm/leg later you've got them on the ground where a stomp on any sensitive area will do them in for a good while - probably long enough for you to come back and finish them off. Ground fighting technique will be absolutely critical during this fight because at some point you WILL go down to sheer mass accumulation if for no other reason than the later kids running up the pile of bodies and coming down on you from up high. I'm not so big on the club thing because I can't realistically see it working but it's a cute idea if nothing else. Probably the best tactic would be to take the fight to them rather than waiting for them to come to you en masse - the running/jumping would wear you out MUCH more quickly, but if you jump forward instead of upward with your arms folded over your head and legs tucked in such that you only presented knees/elbows you might be able to take down several at a time that way during the initial clash. So... how would you train a horde of 5 year olds in order to take down your average college-age guy?? Easy. Train them to act in assigned teams. Assuming, again, fifty to sixty fearless five-year-olds if the guy stays in one position have twenty concentrate on providing cannon fodder engaging the guy from the front, ten from each side diving and attempting to grab the ankles football player style - and holding on. Additionally, if any of them (once two are on each ankle) can latch onto a wrist for any length of time after the follow through on a punch, it'll make it that much easier for the twenty in front to bowl the guy over via mass. Finally, have the remaining ten of the fifty circle around behind and charge literally head-first at the part of the leg directly behind the knee cap. A solid blow their will cause the leg to buckle. The guy will go down backwards with his legs folded under him in a very awkward position. After that, it's simply a matter of jumping on him with their legs tucked so that their knees strike the groin, solar plexus, and neck/head (or lower ribcage if he's on his side/back). My younger sister, younger brother and I used to wrestle my (huge) father every single night until I was ten, and one night when I was eight I dropped both knees on his solar plexus - he wound up in a ball gasping and moaning in pain for a good five minutes afterwards. If the guy moves around - just pile on via diving for ankles as best they can, and try to topple him via sheer mass. If he goes down, jumping with knees technique. posted by Ryvar at 1:28 AM PST on March 23[/quote]