gangster pulls gun on skateboarder; skateboarder disarms gunman and lays a beatdown.

[CtrlAltDefeat]

This strikes me as real... The way the guy with the gun won't let go of the the other guys shirt after the fight. I think blood would be hard to see in this video. Not to mention, it was blunt object strikes, where if the force was hard enough to draw blood, it would more then likely ooze slowly to the surface. I'm not an expert, but I find that people often expect real life events to be like the movies and TV.
E.G. Many people think blood always gushes; you can take many deep cuts and be able to fight, as long as no major organs are hit; gun blasts send people flying, and it's easy to shoot a person in the arm, or leg, or shoot the weapon out of their hand... Even if this was professionally done, it seems to lack the "theatrics" that are almost always detectable when a video is made for an audience... just imho

[GeneW]

Originally Posted by CtrlAltDefeat

This strikes me as real... The way the guy with the gun won't let go of the the other guys shirt after the fight. I think blood would be hard to see in this video. Not to mention, it was blunt object strikes, where if the force was hard enough to draw blood, it would more then likely ooze slowly to the surface. I'm not an expert, but I find that people often expect real life events to be like the movies and TV.
E.G. Many people think blood always gushes; you can take many deep cuts and be able to fight, as long as no major organs are hit; gun blasts send people flying, and it's easy to shoot a person in the arm, or leg, or shoot the weapon out of their hand... Even if this was professionally done, it seems to lack the "theatrics" that are almost always detectable when a video is made for an audience... just imho

Head wounds can bleed profusely. I smacked my face off a tile floor once and left a half cup of blood on the floor before I got it under control. Scalp wounds are almost as bad. Take a good look at those videos from Shia majority countries that celebrate an "atonement day" by lacerating their own heads. The bleeding is horrific.

Being hit on the head with the metallic wheels and fasteners of a skateboard should have opened that kid's head up. Maybe he lucked out?

I noted that the Skaters did not kick our hero in the spine, kidneys, abdomen, did not stomp on his head nor kick his head. Most of the punches were to the face and head. Maybe they did not hit him properly, but this lack of diligent hurting is one of the things that made me go "Hmmmm".

This video could be real I just note some things that "don't make sense to me". I was not there.

Gene