Fatty tries full-contact martial arts Hey, I live in the the American south, where we have far, far too many fat people.  I also train in brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ).  Well we have lots of fatties who want to join our gym come in and try classes.  For those of you not familiar with BJJ , it is basically a style of submission wrestling.  This is an important detail because it means ALL drilling is done with a partner, and wrestling is very personal, so that means whoever is paired with them spends the entire class with their face smashed into a smelly fatty.  Most of these blobs can't make it through an entire class because repeatedly laying down and standing up as we drill completely gasses them in 10 minutes, LOL.  They are a danger to themselves and others because of their weight and uncoordinated movements.  They also make shit drilling partners because they can't do the basic movements required from the person playing the "bad guy."  For example, a common "bad guy" move is to start on top of their partner and try to push themselves off of him/her in order to  stand up to punch or kick.  Some fatties can actually do it once or twice but after that they have no strength left and just lay on top of you like a dying animal.  So you end up not being able to practice that particular movement properly.  That doesn't stop some of them from joining, though (then disappearing a few weeks later after they hurt themselves).  Now, I train for self-defense, and that means I need to learn to deal with all body types.  So instead of refusing to work with them, I protect myself from injury, ignore the odor, and try to get the maximum training value from the session.  You never know when a lardbeast will get triggered and try to tackle me.  Speaking of tackles, fatties have an especially hard time working takedowns.  A takedown is just what is sounds like: a technique to bring your opponent onto the ground.  Obese people hit the ground way harder than a normal person, and combined with their weak muscles and physically exhausted state you can see why they often injure themselves both as the defender and as the attacker.  Like last night.  Smelly fatty took me down with bad technique.  A normal person might have bruised themselves, at worst.  Not this guy.  He took himself out by dropping his entire weight onto my knee from the incredible height of maybe 1 foot.  Too fat to catch himself to mitigate the force in any way.  He couldn't drill anymore after the impact, had bruising and swelling, and had to go lay down. My instructor thinks he probably dislocated or broke his rib.  Bye bye fatty.  I have heard a lot of people say stuff like "BJJ is for everyone!" and there are loads of posts on BJJ-related forums saying BJJ is a great way to lose weight but how fatties think they can be a sedentary cow and jump right into a full-contact combat sport is beyond me.