I know about the battle thing. It's like someone else is making the moves for you. That's the way it is with me and my plastic sword. It may be plastic, but I can parry, anything. And all I've done is watch people on TV.

well ive never actully got in a fight (being 6ft 2 and 13 tears old genrally keeps people my age from annoying me to much)
but it sounds pretty cool id find a way to make some money with it

Yeah I think most likely (or a big factor at least) the answer is adrenaline. The most powerful drug in the world.

Believe me, she's viscious.  I still have a couple of scars on me from over six months ago.  Battle instinct nothing, she has a beast instinct (to be fair, I instigated the mock fighting and got the scratch while doing so.)

No, I black out when I fight.  Most of the fights I've been in, someone else tells me what has happened.  That only applied when I decide to go on the offensive.  When on defensive, I just tend to block everything through Karate moves I was taught as a child when I'm actually afraid of getting hurt.  I believe that some of the reason that I can do what I can do is the fact that my great-grandfather was champion boxer fot he Pasific fleet in the Navy.  My grandfather was champion barfighter in a coal-mining community.  My dad was always picked on in his area and had to defend himself well, so he grew up knowing how to handle himself.  Combine the history of that with a little bit of training on Karate in all defensive movement, being picked on enough in school that one of the bullies taught me how to fight some, and strong survival instinct from when I got beat a bit as a child, and I think that is what allows me to handle myself in fights.

Heart; AKA ferocity, tenacity, stubborness, etc., is probably the primary consideration when it comes to fighting. Some folks have so much of it combined with a lower level of self control, which causes them to 'black out'. People who do this are generally 'berserkers', or folks of smaller stature, and so end up terrorizing their opponent with the level of ferocity they bring to the fight. Thus they steal their opponent's 'heart', and then the fight is won.

You'd be suprised at how many people are or could be berserkers. For example, I am a berserker as well. This is the reason why I don't fight much.

I haven't been quite as lucky as Rob there. The fortunate part for me is that the cause has always been on the other end of a telecommunications network, so it completely negates my ability to find a worthy outlet. I do have an outlet for cases such as that; however. I'd prefer not to go into it. It's still not healthy but it's the best alternative to actually acting out on those feelings.

i do experience that also when i think back i remember things in a series of pictures kind of. like when a dvd skips a couple of scenes.