How Many Fights People Had in Most Dangerous City?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- I asked strangers how many fights they had in Vilnius, Lithuania, named as one of the three deadliest cities in Europe by Fox News.
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Asks any guy: I have never had any fight in my life
Asks one Russian guy: I had one just now
😄😄 It was a coincidence I think though...
@@MartialArtsJourneywe know you are being polite! Everybody knows that Russians love to fight!! 🤣
Everybody in eastern europe knows russians are bullies
Bro I thought the guy in the thumbnail was IcyMike with a wig 😂😂😂
😂😂 Nah man, it's a real priest
We've been seeing Icy Mike in every martial arts RUclips channel so much these days, we are starting to see him just everyday in street
@88BigG5ft 6 I think. Everyone he associates with is 6ft+ though
@@MartialArtsJourney Nice video !.
Just a small piece of advice Rokas .
When someone says he/she doesnt want to answer a question for a video etc ..maybe its better not to show him or her in the video .
There is no point I think and the person could feel bad .
I am talking about the first guy you asked .Personally I wouldnt add a case like this on my video .
Keep up the good work man !!! 💪.
Would like to see you against Shane from fight tips for the underdogs .
😂😂😂
Rokas as a street interviewer is something I didn’t know I needed! Also watching you switch between languages was impressive!
Thanks man!!! Really glad to hear it. It was a new experience for me so I was nervous at first, but in the end I enjoyed the experience a lot! Of this video does well, I'll definitely film more 😊
It was funny.
It's pretty common for us in Lithuania to be at least bilingual, some of us can freely speak 3 languages.
@@Meesopaste *sigh* don’t remind me how broken the US education system is. I’m from Florida and went to public school there. It’s a miracle I can string together a sentence in English haha.
I was glad I understood some parts in Russian.
When you really ask people this question, the answer is that in general surprisingly few people have been in fights at all, but the people who have have actually been in fights have often been in a lot of them. Some of it is perceived weakness that attracts predators, when I was younger and scrawnier and mouthier I certainly got into a lot of fights. Won some, lost some, learned a lot along the way. When I worked security I had to break up quite a few fights and my impression was that the majority of fights occur between a combatant who isn't really a good fighter at all and a combatant/victim who wasn't aware they were in a fight until they were being hit. The vast majority of fights are thus extremely lopsided as the typical people initiating combat try and pick victims that they'll win against.
Yupp.
It's a small number of predators that do most (or all) of such crimes.
Many years ago, a guy sucker punched me in a fast food restaurant. He swung at me a secondtime and ended up with a dislocated elbow for his efforts. I was just a brown belt in Judo at the time. Years later, after being promoted to black belt, I relfected upon the way I handled that situation and concluded that I didn't really need to hurt him in that way.
Establish control. A short lecture. Swiftly into a quick power nap to help soak up the lesson. Another happy pupil.
What a story, Mark.
Fits in with some stuff I learned working law enforcement. My understanding was that a large amount of crime occurs within a relatively small segment of the population which is often the perpetrators and victims. Vilnius may be on paper dangerous but unless you are part of the population that engages in illegal or risky activity, you are probably going to be safe. Victimization of random people isn't as common a people fear. Sadly, that unreasonable fear is a cornerstone marketing tactic in the self defense industry.
if dont know how Fox came up with that list. But according to Crimeindex Vilnius is very safe. Klaipeda and Kaunas being even more unsafe but also low level of crime
Next time that you come to the US you should do one. People here can be wild. Haha. You might get some really high numbers in some cities or towns. Great video Rokus. I look forward to USDC season 2. Also, i need to invest in one of your t shirts. Those look so cool.
Thanks!!
Australia and Ireland
Back when I weighted 70 kg I looked as far from a fighter as probably possible and I fought people constantly (shitty people at concerts and I was walking angry all the time and apparently I had to prove something to someone). Nowadays at 96kg weight and with experience in combat sports not only I dont fight but dont even have 10% of the confidence I had back then. Not sure if Im smarter or became a coward in the meantime.
I think combat sports gives and takes away confidence. When you are constantly fighting good fighters, that can lead to understand your limitations. But then you also know how to fight. Most attackers though choose people who seem weaker than themselves. If you are big and strong, very few people will want to get in a fight with you
@@MartialArtsJourney I hope you are right, because recently I keep losing confidence, tried to fix it with more training (despite not having stamina for 5 days in a row) but yesterday I was holding the pad for a kyokushin dude to hit and he was moving me backwards with his punches alone. Me, who can plant himself like a tree during judo training. The feeling was genuinely scary and made me lose even more heart for martial arts. Like I wouldnt be able to do anything if I met dude like that on the street, he would kill me with one front punch, and break my arm if I tried to block it
Kyokushin dudes are badass
I also believe martial artist just know better how dangerous a fight can be. How lethal even fists can be.
@@miqvPL I know the feeling that you're talking about.
I've had that too a while ago.
Two things really helped me:
1. Drill the basics like a maniac and forget about the fancy stuff for a while
2. Spar people worse than you.
Number 2 is important, because if you always, or most of the time spar against someone better that you, they might counter your techniques even when properly executed, making you feel you you're unable to do anything. You also become overly cautious, as you're thinking every move you make will give your opponent an opening, which may be true for a superior opponent, but not someone on your level.
But as you're conditioned to that thinking, you're always thinking that, even when sparring someone worse than you. Overestimating an opponent can be just as crippling as underestimating one.
So, go out there, pick opponents for Sparring you can comfortably beat and apply techniques on, then, when you're confident again, mix in the occasional guy who is just as good as you. And once you feel comfy with that, mix in some superior opponents too.
That's how I got my mojo back.
That soldier was actually scary :(
"I am against fist fights"
I prefer to use a good rifle from a bush nice shot in the back of the neck
Was thinking "what if he comes across a soldier?" Then he did. As ex-military myself I was curious what kind of answer he'd give. Personally I wouldn't really count those encounters as fights. Don't think it's what he meant
As a Portuguese watching this i have learn 3 things
1 - Rokas is extremely shy even tho a great fighter and life story of traveling. Which made the video even better haha
2 - Lithuania or at least where he was is a very safe place (and beautiful i may add).
3 - People nowadays get in a lot less fights. Which obviously is a F***ing great thing.
And as a side note that we all know and forget: Don't judge the book by his cover.
Happy to see this video
I grew up in a very small rural community. I got in lots of fist fights both with the bullies in school and my brother at home. I threw punches one more time in college, and none since then. Watching this video made me realize I probably got in a lot more fights than most people.
Same here. I also grew up in a small rural. I’ve come to think that the familiarity with people in a small town may play a part in being in conflict with others. I got into one physical in the military and that’s been it as an adult.
I only ever fought as a little, really little kid.
fighting is a right of passage in rural communities. If you grew up in the country, you either fought or you just got your ass kicked.
@@CharlesTRose It's the same here in Europe. Having lived in both countries, in my experience, Europeans are quicker to get a-fistin' in general. In some places, it's just something "that is done" in certain situations, too.
I think the UK must be quite a violent society - outside of the more privileged circles - because I was also very surprised by this video's findings.
I think violence is like trigonometry.
Surprisingly few people use it, but those that use it tend to use it a lot.
You should ask this question in more dodgy places and have a fight yourself 😆😆
😂😂
My conclusion from the video is that the answer depends on the social status a lot. Wealthier and more intelligent people tend to fight less. The answers are probably going to differ if you ask this question father away from Gediminas Avenue (and, no, please don't go interviewing dodgy people around the train station or other shady areas).
You can't call an European city an unsafe one when you remember that the USA exists
I had a number of fights in my life. I am from Germany. Had some when i was little but nothing serious. When i got older, people began to drink and go to partys, it got more dangerous.
The two big fights i had were quite annoying... We didn't want to fight but had no choice.
#1 We were talking to some strangers who stole something from my friends house. While argueing in the middle of the street, five guys came up to us. I heard a voice behind me, asking something like "Who is the one asking for payback for the stuff you stole?", i turned around and straight away got punched in the face. Lights were not out but i felt dizzy. Then i protected myself while five guys were hitting me over and over again. My other friends were completely in shock and had a hard time breaking up the fight. So i lost.
#2 We were going home from a party. A friend of mine and me. My friend was in the first fight as well. So you could say we were very cautious around drunk people and tried to have our eyes everywhere. We saw a girl vomiting at the entrance but her friends took care of her and so we passed by, looking for a taxi. Nothing interesting so far. A few steps later we heard an angry voice "HEY YOU GUYS ARE LAUGHING?! YOU MAKE FUN OF MY FRIEND? SHE FEELS HORRIBLE!", we were like "What the hell? Take it easy. Noone laughed! We didn't even say anything. Just leave us alone, we are going home." His friends were quick to push us around as well and we both tried to deescalate the situation walking backwards and talking. The pushed us onto the street and a taxi splitted us. I was not afraid of the guy in front of me but was looking for my friend on the other side and saw the angry drunk guy hit him. Thats when it turned into chaos. I ran over knocked the drunk guy out and hit the other one on the nose. Two other friends of them tried to hit us as well. One got me in a choke when i missed a hit and fell over the guy who dodge. My friend basically speared (jumped head forward against him) the other one who wanted to hit me in the face while i was in the choke. i was able to break his grip, stand up and knock him to the ground and jumped on his back screaming at him that it was their fault. The adrenaline kick was crazy. Then a more sober guy of that group came and calmed his dizzy friends down talking to me that he didn't wanna fight. At this point i was sceptical but believed him and we went away taking a taxi. Both of us were unscaithed but full of adrenaline and in shock i was laughing like a maniac. So we won i guess.
Glad i never had this experience ever again.
Real fighting is traumatic.
That was a really nice video and I’m starting to reconsider my life choice
I always thought I was a chill person but I’ve been into fights as a young adult
Maybe I just attract conflict
I think that perhaps part of it would be what you define as a fight. Places that are considered deadly, or dangerous are rarely considered that because everyone is fighting each other. They are usually labelled as that because of a high level of robberies, muggings, and murders which most people would not consider a fight. Like when people say Chicago is a dangerous city it's not because people are fist fighting on every corner of the street, it's because people are getting shot, stabbed, and mugged on the daily.
These social interaction are really hard and make one feel awkward! However, it shows your dedication. Well done! This video is amazing!
Thanks!
My love to my Lithuanian brothers and sisters, from Poland ❤
same to you, we know you have our backs if bad stuff happened.🤍❤
Lithuania looks great and super clean.... My neighborhood smells like burning trash and urine and has drug needles trash and graffiti everywhere.... Anyways! Good video man! Haha. Hard to believe thats one of Europes most dangerous cities
I honestly think that article was using skewed information. I personally feel very safe in Vilnius :)
NEVER trust 🦊 FAUX news.
I think the answer to this question willl vary a lot if you ask it in a big city center, in suburbs or on the country side or in a rich country vs in a poor country.
People who live comfortable a life don't usually fight much...
I was considering that as well. Would be interesting to ask the same question in a rougher neighborhood
@@MartialArtsJourney ...or in bars at night...
Even if the place is very safe/quiet during the day, this can change during nighttime, with drunk people in the area.
(Unless this kind of culture has already been eradicated by lockdowns...)
You should do the same videos asking black belts who are teaching if they had any fights...
You will be surprised how many black belts are out there teaching and never had a single fight in their lives... some of them not even in the ring...
Interesting!
I grew up in a city in northern england. I cannot count the shear amount of fights I had to have growing up there and into my 20s before I left.
For instance: one time I was just walking at the side of a road and a driver stopped his car to fight me because he thought I'd looked at him the wrong way even though in actual fact, I couldn't see him through his car windscreen reflection.
Things like this were reoccurring.
Though not big by any means (5'9 on a good day) I put it down to me having a certain "look", a bit like a "resting bitch face" whereby apparently I looked like I wanted to punch you in the face, even if I happened to be away in my own thoughts in that particular moment.
It's your size. I'm the same height and trouble always seemed to find me as well. Smaller guys get picked first for nothing except a fight.
Vilnius? Not Kaunas? Or Panevėžys? Šiauliai? ;D
Yup, good question 😄
Would have been interesting to ask the ladies
Maybe next time!
And I thought I'm like.. super super calm with my 15-20 confrontations. 😅
😂 Depends on the country I guess
Try this in the balkans, I'd be surprised if anyone, man or woman gives bellow 10 😂
Haha. I'd be really curious to ask people in different countries!
@@MartialArtsJourney Try Zagreb or Belgrade, very nice cities 👍😎
Rokas approaches an American
Rokas: How many fight you have had in your life ?
American: Too many to count.
Rokas: Could you tell me about one
American: Sure we was fighting because he looked at me.
Rockas: When did this happen?
American: Two minutes ago.
You changed the title, right? :p
In one tab that's still open this video is called: 'Asking a Priest How Many Fights He Had'
Haha. Yes, trying to find what connects with people the most
Im surprised that some people have never had a physical fight, even as a child. I personally had too many to count when I was a child, but none as an adult. I think it's common here in sweden because there are so many people from different cultures and they dont want to get along and in school you are forced to attend together with different people. When you become an adult you dont have to associate with them.
You should do this in London.
I thought about that too!
Against…
Siblings: hundreds
Cousins: dozens
Strangers: three
Bear: once (not kidding)
I haven't been in a fight in many years. When I was younger I was an idiot. I also had problems with drugs, booze and crazy women. I honestly do t remember how many fights I have been in. 7 for sure my freshman year, 5 my sophomore. It got way worse after high school. That all seems like it was a lifetime ago. I am very zen now, very calm, very chill. Almost to the point of appearing cowardly. I dont want to hurt people anymore.
I stopped fighting because I no longer had anything to prove to myself. I'm not a big guy and for years of my life I would place myself in bad situations. Due to my size and my loud mouth, I would get picked out to fight every time. Now that I'm older that isn't an issue. Fighting over the age of 25 isn't for me. It hurts afterwards 😆
guy at 5:30 looks like gordon ryan he's lying to you 💀
😄 That's Gordon Ryan's twin cousin the priest
Ask this in the uk and you will get very different answers lol
I'd love to! 😄
@@MartialArtsJourney this would make a pretty cool series and study. If you ever visit a country, just pop out for a bit and ask around. I think it would be interesting to see the difference with each country.
While in UK visit the snake pit wigan for catch wrestling. I never like 🦊/ FAUX news. Mostly lies.
That soldier have me chills.
What a beautiful city.
Vilnius is very beautiful!
ask women too...
Will do in the future!
@@MartialArtsJourney
I do not know Lithuania but I know some cultures women do not respond to men. Have your wife ask them, if she is willing.
This interview can be replicated in every country you visit, Rokas. I'm looking for it as you travel often.
people will use what they are good at to deal with physical conflicts, people who talk well will talk their way out of it, people have money will use money to get out of it, people with fighting skill will fight to get out of it ;) in my country we had many professional Sanda fighters get charged with criminal offense because of their fights on the street. People always use their best tool in the toolbox ;)
Who knew priests would fight like that! Always learning so much with Rokas
Actually not all people want to fight. But anyway I'm excited to watch the Season 2 of Ultimate Self Defense Championship.
Not all people should fight for sure :)
This was super interesting! But I would also specify that some people might not view something like a mugging or robbery as a fight if they didn't feel like they could engage the criminal with violence of their own.
I was kinda wondering this too. I didn’t think about random muggings until I heard Rokas’ answer. I would say I’ve had 2 fights where I was an active participant but there were a lot of situations where it seemed like things might get hairy so I got the hell out of dodge. The two were both dumb kid stuff and I’ve never really had to use martial arts outside of a class/gym. The irony is that when I actually learned how to fight is when I stopped having them. lol
I don't think it counts unless you are participating. Funny how we all have the other situations until there is a clear delineation where we become participants. There is always a build up and a time when we decide "never again". 😅
You made me realize i’ve had more fights than i thought. Mostly because of roadrage (mostly coked up business douchebags) or pub quarrels. Something like a punch or two, and trying to deescalate the situation by pinning the guy/me or other people holding us. No big deal. That happened maybe 7-10 times in my 28 years.
I originally only counted full on “im gonna fk you up” fights that happen i think four times, one i lost, one i won, once we were both fkd up , and one time the more mature and jiu jitsu opponent wrapped around me like a snake-spider creature and made me unable to move until i cooled off. All of those fights were at school.
I’m from eastern europe and most people don’t like to fight to the end. More like punish the other guy a little. Who likes to fight amd bully people are mostly russians and gypsies. We have a term “cigánská férovka” that could be translated as “fair fight according to the gypsies” - it’s atleast 3 to one, usually like 5+. And when someone manages to defend himself, usually with a knife, they scream racism and organise protests. 🙃
Wow. I had to fight nearly my whole life. In school, on the street and in gang situations but later also let's say by choice. I fought siblings, friends, neighbors, rivals, "enemies" and challengers. So I'm training since I was aged 10. Many different sports came more or less into action.
But I think this video gives the false impression which is most dangerous: Most people haven't had fights so it doesn't happen to me. That might be true until the day it happens.
And I would give also an answer depending on the situation I am in in the moment you approach me. Is a girl/woman around? I wouldn't like to make her afraid. "Some." Could you be a cop? I don't like to charge myself nor others. "Maybe. Why you'd asked?" Is it a bright day with many regular people around or a night within members of certain groups? "I could tell you but after this I have to kill you because you know to much." ... ^^
Damn are you always so quick to kill, aren't the repercussions too risky ?
@@lead5916 "If you say the truth you need a damn quick horse." This describes one third of my fights. In which I wasn't the attacker. So I could eat the "repercussions" or fight back. Not a real choice to me.
Also I was small, boney and had obvious health problems as a child. 3 things which could make you a target. All 3 combined? Definitely does so.
So yes "The clever one gives in." they say. But noone tells you the whole saying is: "The clever one gives in until he is the dumb one himself." So no choice either.
But my trouble wasn't only outside the genetic pool. It was also within. In more than one way.
Trauma and troubles are a big part of my family history. And I was the black sheep we could say. So even at home and among relatives I had to fight for the right to live.
So maybe it is surprising to someone (to me it isn't at all) but I had anger issues. Which also resulted in more than one fight.
All this combined I wouldn't really say I'm quick to kill or the repercussions aren't risky. Just this wasn't the first priority.
Which leads to an even deadlier topic: mixing in with the wrong persons.
Today I would say I was the wrong one.
And I am not very emotional. So I don't fear very much. Which leads to more fights as well. For example because I can't stand unfair situations.
If there are 8 against one. I can't watch and do nothing. My body steps in on its own.
This should be the moment you realize: I haven't always won. But if it doesn't kill you it makes you stronger. Not necessarily your body. This one I have is a weak one to this day. My mind is not.
So even if I loose my opponents have to pay a price. And that's what a warrior is: Someone who knows the risk while also knowing what's on risk if nobody does the right things.
"If you fight you can loose. Who doesn't fight has lost already."
Of course the Russian guy was like " right now, i come here for the free fights actually "
It’s fun to see people complaining that Vilnius is dangerous when I was raised in Rio de Janeiro. I used to fight a lot until I was 12 because I was discriminated a lot and never accepted it. However, after I started practicing judo at age 12 I stop fighting completely because I developed fighting skills and learned discipline and self-control. At age 18 I was punched by surprise but restrained my assailant and haven’t had a fight over 32 years. Now that I’m black belt in judo/ aikido and green belt in karate I don’t think I’ll fight again.
not counting school or the military... about half a dozen...
wow these people are so different than americans we straight up tell you no hesitation n almost wear it with pride as men but these guys seem more embarrased of the fact they may have fought thats so interesting to me
man how do youtubers keep coming up with new video ideas 😭😭😭😭
Part of our job! 😅
5:03
Giant robots on guy's shirt, from left to right, up to down:
Mazinger Z
Great Mazinger
Grendizer
Gundam (RX-78-2)
Shin Tetsujin 28
Steel Jeeg
Gaiking
Daikengo
Voltes V
God Sigma
Getter Dragon (Getter Robo G)
Gakeen
Godam
Golion (aka Voltron)
Daltanious
Garbin (Gordian)
Daitarn 3
Zambot 3
Baldios
Trider G7
Haha, wow! Impressive. We told the guy we loved his shirt. He said he got it in Japan :)
the skinny or fat nerdy types are more likely to be targeted (I know I was)
Lithuanians speaking good English. Impressive. Spending more time learning languages than wasting time on pointless violence.
Or there are a lot of Lithuanians who don't admit the naughty things they have been doing?
Should have come to Britain, home of the fist fight 👊😅
This was a very cool probing experience! You could do it again and now try it on women or just go mix!
Thanks! I am thinking about various different exciting formats as long as this video does well enough 😊🙏
Rokas you might have to visit the US and conduct this same street interview. May get bery different results. Maybe. 🤷🏾♂️
I was thinking Compton.
It depends what you consider a fight
go to the hoods in the US youll have content for months 🤣
Very White. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. Wish i could live in such a safe environment..
i'd love to have stats on all kinds of things. last time you sprinted, turned a cartwheel, climbed a tree. a lot of people don't do much physical after about 25, outside of a gym anyway.
When you ask these questions to a couple and stuff. Would be nice or corteous to ask the girls too maybe lol.
You should have asked the women as well 🙂
This would be interesting in Glasgow, Scotland...
100%!
Interesting question! I believe the women may have had more fights. Maybe ask them next time! LOL
Love the video, good questions, nice to hear you speak different languages. If you keep asking people questions with that polite smile on your face you definitely don't need to worry or be anxious because people will be nice and open to you. Looking forward to more of this!
I was watching his channel without knowing he's a fellow Lithuanian, lol
Haha, that happens a lot! 😂😅
Rokas: “you were smiling.”
Also Rokas: *consent granted*
Haha 😂😂 Pure logic 😎
ask some females homie
Interesting video
Interesting Video :)
Thanks! What stuck out to you the most?
I'm surprised that you actually don't fight at all.
Coming from a Mediterranean country, there's so many situations where you can get physically attacked (in the road, the streets, even your own buidling etc.) and you have to consciously avoid them situations, agression is pretty much in the air. Like the last guy said "we fight 24/7, all our life", we even fight each other to have a better thing than the person next to us.
Vilnus looks like such a calm place and I wonder if it's not the city that makes the people so peaceful.
Can I ask what mediterranen country are you from?
@@DRGRZIt's a big place. Morocco, Spain, Turkey, and Syria and Libya and Egypt and Italy are all included.
You definitely could ask this question again in other places.
Thanks! I think so too! Would be really interesting to ask this question in rough neighborhoods or really dangerous countries
i really appreciate your content.
Thank you 🙏
This was a great video! Thanks!
Thank you! Glad to hear it 😊🙏
Man, your channel is getting better and better. What a great experiment.
What come on man, ask some people with scars. It's pretty obvious people who just got A pedicure in a facial, have never been in a fight.😂
Confession: I immigrated to another country and was picked on by bullies because i didnt knew the language and was looking different than the other kids. I learned to fight during the primary school years and was considered the best when i was at 4th year. Until 6th year of primary school, i was the kid to whom others went to solve a conflict if they had one. But in highschool new kids pulled up also ones that knew how to fight, or did it for sport. So their friends know they are strong and my friends talk the same. It is inevitable for the stronger ones to actually face eachother as others spread rumors and try to get you to fight eachother. Even without me realizing it back then, i was used as a power leverage at school that some kids mentioned to hang out with me. That brought me a lot of problems and unnecessary fights. Until i realised that i became a bully myself around the 5th year of highschool.
If i would guess how many times i had to use violence it would be around 50 times. Fortunately i didnt lose all my brain cells and got admitted to the university. Since then i walked away from conflict and always protected the ones who were bullied. I never beaten anyone weaker. But i did intimidate them. And that i regret.
I am guessing that the same questions asked at 2 AM would have led to different answers... Good job Rokas! It is indeed nerve racking to do street interviews!
Sorry man, but I think you are asking the wrong people here, and the wrong question.
You know the saying:
- Who started the fight?
- He did, when he hit back. (Until then it was just a beating).
Also I don't think "fights" happen often...
What happens is, someone picks a weak target (old person, young woman) who can't defend him/herself, and robs him/her.
Or just walks near the person, stabs him with a knife 5-6 times, and walks away.
And not to mention the thing that mostly only happens to women. - I guess there is also not much fighting involwed. Sedate her quickly, and...
Lithuania used to have an insanely high homicide rate for an EU country in 2005-2011: roughly 8 per 100k people. That is an order of magnitude higher than Czech Republic and roughly eight times higher than neighboring Poland over the same period. I suppose an important number of Lithuanians were eager to blame the unwanted immigration during the Soviet period however their country experienced small influx compared to Latvia where ethnic Latvians ended up accounting barely for over half of population when their country restored the independence. That said, Latvian homicide rate was slightly smaller than Lithuanian one.
I am also aware that Panevėžys used to be a very dangerous city in 1990-2010 to the point of being nicknamed "Lithuanian Chicago". I checked its ethnic composition and found it to be 97% Lithuanian.
I think it would be better to invite someone with a degree in sociology. A qualified person can help making more representative sample as well as improve the question. After all, people may be reluctant to answer honestly due to possibly being ashamed etc.
Rokas тьй говориш по руски.... Can't you see it in their faces bro? It's all over their faces if they are violent and are fighting often. Also the guy who clenched his fists and started to bump them together he was lying when he said that he had one fight in his life, and you can tell he is having fights often by the way he casually bumped his fists and how naturally they look clenched. And most of these guys have the violent/crazy person's face. Sure they will lie to you and tell you they don't go fight people, until you cross them in some way, or they get a little drunk, then the idiocy starts, and of course they will not remember what they did, because people tend to forget the bad things they do!
Also these last two guys, they are definitely going to lie to you and try to find an excuse for their actions ("everybody fights, for their family, ect.), also they will mug you if they can get away with it. To be safe around people like these it's better to establish some sort of dominance early on, or they will exploit your weaknesses.
I love the street interview format - great job Rokas. I love how the old dudes have all seen some shit lol.
Also, European cities are all so cool looking.
I am from South Africa, Pretoria, Sunnyside (a notorious area)
1. A drunk white tenant whom I evicted a few weeks earlier met me on the street. He starting harrashing me. He walked right up to me and when he tried to hit me, I pepper sprayed him at point blank. (I was amazed that he tried, because I had the pepper spray in my hand before he approached me. Maybe he did not know what it was.)
2. A drunk black guy pissed on the street next to me. I objected. He grabbed my collar and tried to hit me. I pepper sprayed him at point blank. (I just just manage to grab the pepper spray in time.)
Both were scary situations. Both men were low class people with bad track records.
Wow! I grew up in a small town and I got in a lot of fights. I was nice and friendly with everyone, but I was different, a minority basically... I had to fight or be victimized.
I feel perfectly average after watching this video, I only got into one fight when I was about 19-20. Having trained thaiboxing I just blocked punches and kicks until the other guy stopped being mad. He was such an idiot I actually regret not hitting him back but I didnt have that instinct. A kick to the ribs would have been perfect.
Yupp, this is where statistics are misleading.
You can have a city where allegedly there's lots of altercations, but in reality it's only a small number of people who are involved in that kind of stuff.
For example gang members and very rare exceptional psychos.
Those few people are responsible for the majority of the statistics, while 99.9% of people basically never fight.
Young Rokas: afraid of being assaulted on the streets.
Present Rokas: goes to third most dangerous city looking for tough people and asking for their fights.
The Martial Arts Journey works :)
I wonder what would happen if you do this experiment in my country (Serbia). 😆
I think it would be too successful 😂
What you'll see a lot in "most dangerous cities" is that it's often a large city with a known organized crime structure, many of the murders and assaults that happen in a city happen within that circuit or to people directly involved in the lives of those who are.
Random street violence is, as this video helps attest, quite rare for several reasons: a lot of random fights have a vocal aspect in the beginning where most adults by now know how to avoid and deflect, or are in very high risk areas like places where a lot of drunk people are, places with poor visibility, or poor neighborhoods with low police attendance (usually in those neighborhoods, there is no reason for you to be there if you don't live there, and people are already on guard, so shit happens).
Occasionally, you get unlucky and you are the lottery winner who happens to run into a psychopath who also happens to be having quite the moment and you're the lightning rod; this is bad luck, nothing you do will prepare you for that.
I think, in life, you get around 1-5 physical fights in your life where I'll believe it's been entirely up to fate; any number above that and I believe that either you're very naive or overly trusting, or when people are recounting times in their lives they had a fight for no reason, you're the bad guy in their story.
Take note that nobody ever in the history of the world did something evil.
This is to mean: many people have done things that they know are seen as bad, but for every single instance of that over the entire world and in the whole of history, the person who did that thought they had a good reason to do so. The guy who punched you for no reason on the train? His story?
"So I was just on the train mindiing my own fucking business when one of THOSE guys walks in and he is just staring at me, just asking for it. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID, I'm just sitting being respectful, I'm just playing some music, so fuck it, the bitch keeps staring at me like he's hot shit and yeah, at some point I had to teach him to be polite to me"
Closing statement: you don't get into fights with people you don't meet, know who to avoid. Better to look like a bitch once, you never read in the paper "Man bitched out of fight in parking lot", you do read "Teenager stabbed to death during night out".
I've only had three real fights I think. I ended the first one with a front kick, I learned a few things in the second one, and in the third I outwrestled two 16year olds that were bigger than me.
I've never had a fight outside of the gym after that.
Probably guys who look fit and that they can handle themselves rarely get picked on or confronted. However I remember from my youth those friends who were not too imposing, thinly built academic types who were completely ferocious when a fight came up. We are now talking 60 kg guys who became crazy ass vikings.
Lithuania looks so nice, I would love to go there and people seem to speak English so well. No need for me to fresh up my old Russian 😂
There is a problem with the question. For some people (and some courts) being in a fight means active and willing participation in physical violence regardless of who started it. Nobody will admit that they were in a fight. You should ask them if they had ever had to defend from a physical assault in a public area.
BTW, the Fox News list is sort of stupid and seems to of dubious quality. Data is from 6 years ago and only one factor (murder rate) is included. Don't take it too serious.
If you asked me this question i would need clarification on what you considered a physical fight. Wrestling or shoving my brother when we were angry? Does the neighborhood bully fights when i was super young (like 5 years old) count? What about that play wrestling with someone where they suddenly got mad and tried to break my fingers? None were fight for your life all out fistfights, but some where physical in nature. And of course I dont count MMA training as fighting.
I see the logical error here, it's survivor bias. Vilnius is so really very very deadly, that any fight you get into, you most likely die... therefore, all the people you asked had zero or maybe one fight; you didn't interview around the graveyard.
And the most likely cause is one you interviewed, who had been in 'hundreds' of fights: Case closed!
Cool video, but what constitutes a “fight?” Is it just the intent? Where is the line between a rough sparring match with intent to finish and an underground match and a smoker and an amateur match and a pro match? How many rules does the type of combat need to have before its not a fight? Is a BJJ match a fight? If you incapacitate an aggressor without taking any damage or injuring them, is that a fight? Is boxing a fight? Is TKD a fight? If someone attacks you but you deescalate verbally, is that a fight? If you beat someone up but they don’t really fight back and vice versa is that a fight? Just curious, because I honestly don’t know.
As soon as you walked up to that little guy I knew he'd been through a fair few scraps. His face, his brow, his eyes, his voice. Good thing you didn't ask him how many he won!
I had some 3 all-out fights in my life. Having a granite chin but pillow hands: never KO’d another man and have never been KO’d as well. Have taken one beating and left 2 scarred. But no KOs from either side ever.
This was a fun video and I think you excelled at "man on the street" interview.
Thank you!!
I have had two big confrontations in my adult life. In my 20s, a homeless man tried to mug me and my colleague. I disarmed him and the surprise on his face was all that was necessary to deescalate it. As angry as I was and as much as I wanted to knock him out, I didnt. He was a lot smaller than me but perhaps mentally tougher, certainly had a much harder life than me. I wouldn't have gained anything by hurting him for his trouble making.
The other time was last month - a man was beating a woman in the street, and was comfortable doing it in front of a stranger (me). I yelled at him to stop but in as threatening a way as I could. I was so angry and as big as him. My presence/anger/threat was sufficient to make him realise he now had a bigger problem on his hands. He backed away, palms forward trying to calm the situation now, but in the moment, I was fully committed to fighting him had he wanted to fight. I do not think I am a tough guy BTW. He was a bully and needed to be shown, however. De-escalation/avoiding fights is what 20 years of karate taught me. But ironically, the boxing I have been doing the last 2 years has given me the knowledge that if circumstances arise, I can rise to the challenge. I may not win, but it is important for a man to understand what he is capable of. I am not invincible, however.
Come now Rokas, you are not asking the women! I know quite a few women who have been in more fights then some of the men I know.
I think I'm at about 11+ street fights. I wish it was none and hope to avoid further conflict.