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Originally Posted by Bruno
We still do grabbing for play fighting - I think that instinct is going to stick around forever. When untrained humans get really serious, instead of adding in bites, we tend add in over-arm blows to the head (and shoulders and neck when we miss). Usually with some sort of fist-weight (a lamp, a rock, a plate, whatever's handy) but we use the same blows unarmed too.
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IME, a serious fight between untrained individuals often ends up as a rather vicious wrasslin match,
with bites unless those are culturally restrained. OTOH, when someone grabs an effective weapon in an untrained fight, the natural response seems to be for both sides to immediately back off.